Rock legend Meat Loaf is cruelly mocked for his anti- mask and vaccine mandate beliefs hours after he died from COVID aged 74īritney Spears gives glimpse at car 'karaoke' session with fiance Sam Asghari. It's not the new Citizen Kane, but if you're up for a good, bloody, violent time, Kick-Ass 2 delivers in spades.Surprise! Nick Jonas, 29, and wife Priyanka Chopra, 39, welcome a baby GIRL as they announce arrival of first child via surrogate: 'We are overjoyed' Recommendation: If you liked Kick-Ass, you're definitely going to like this. To me it wasn't a problem, but some viewers might find the more extreme scenes wince-worthy, because of how dark and brutal this film feels at times.
It sways wildly between comedic, brutal, somber, parodic and downright cruel, but it never feels inconsistent the tone feels appropriate for each scene. If I was forced to find bigger flaws in the film (which there are next to none), the tone of the film should be addressed.
The final fight scene is truly spectacular, and the film is worth paying full ticket price for it alone. If anything, Kick-Ass 2 far surpasses the level and amount of violence of the first, so much so that at times the viewer might be wondering "Is it okay I'm having so much fun with this?" Special mention must be paid to the sound effects team, because the various crunches and cracks really drive the physicality home. It's visceral, brutal, and immensely gratifying. The action hasn't been softened at all from the first film. The acting is spot-on, and I struggle to find a single weak performance in the film. The cavalcade of new "good" superheroes in the newly found superhero team "Justice Forever" get fairly little screen time, but manage to feel like actual characters instead of mere cutouts.
Kick-Ass 2 brings a whole bunch of new colourful lunatics to the cast, with the standouts being Jim Carrey's erratic Colonel Stars and Stripes, and Mother Russia, played with ruthless authority by Ukrainian actress Olga Kurkulina. All the while Chistopher Mintz-Plasse's "world's first supervillain" (whose name breaks the IMDb review guidelines) goes through a frightfully convincing descent into madness and villainy and starts to wreck things up.
Hit-Girl is this time facing difficulties trying to adapt into the real world with her high school life, while Kick-Ass himself finds new faces to fight crime with. The story feels exactly like a sequel should: changed characters facing new conflicts with higher stakes and new faces to join in. As a direct continuation from the first, the viewer should feel right at home with the familiar characters. It's a prime example of how a proper sequel should be made. It doesn't try anything revolutionary or groundbreaking, but what's here is very well executed and enjoyable. Universal Picturesĭespite the change of director, Kick-Ass 2 doesn't feel one bit different from its predecessor. But there's only one problem with his scheme: If you mess with one member of Justice Forever, you mess with them all. Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world's first super villain, The Mother F%&*^r, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion to make Kick-Ass and Hit Girl pay for what they did to his dad. With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she's forced to retire-leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world's first superhero team with Mindy. When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist - reborn as The Mother F%&*^r - only the blade-wielding Hit Girl can prevent their annihilation. After Kick-Ass' insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes, our hero joins them on patrol.