Kick-Ass 2 directed by Jeff Wadlow continues from where the last movie left off with our superhero duo, Kick-Ass and Hit Girl better known as the teenagers Mindy and Dave. In the last film, Kick-Ass barely escaped death while Hit Girl lost her father Big Daddy. Mindy and Dave now find themselves trying to recover from the last film while simultaneously trying to live an average life as normal teenagers making their way through the horrors of high school.
Mindy (Chloë Grace Moretz) is now living with her new guardian Detective Marcus Williams (Morris Chestnut) who wants her just to live a normal life. Mindy tries to go along with the new changes in her life but finds it too difficult to be just a normal teenager. Instead of attending high school like Marcus thinks she is, she is sneaking out to fight crime, and then hacking the school's computer to give herself perfect attendance. It isn't until Marcus gets a call from the Principal that Mindy missed the award ceremony to accept her perfect attendance award that everything starts crashing down.
While Mindy is trying to cope with just being normal, Dave is trying to build up a superhero team. He badly wants Mindy to join but she is reluctant after Marcus catches her sneaking out and enforces stronger rules. Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) soon joins forces with the likes of Dr. Gravity (Donald Faison), Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), Night Bitch (Lindy Booth) and Battle Guy (Clark Duke) to take on the dark forces of the night and make their town a safer place. However, nothing goes as it is supposed to, and they soon find themselves in a whirlwind of shit.
Everything goes terribly wrong when Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) forms a team of bad guys under his new name The Motherfucker and plans his revenge against Kick-Ass for killing his father in the last film with a bazooka. Even though Chris D'Amico accidentally kills his own mother in a tantrumed tanning bed catastrophe, he still feels the need to kill Kick-Ass and everything he loves. The Motherfucker soon forms a team of killers and evil doers with the likes of Mother Russia (Olga Kurkulina), The Tumor (Andy Nyman), Genghis Carnage (Tom Wu) and Black Death (Daniel Kaluuya). The Motherfucker starts his revenge with killing Kick-Ass's father and then attacks his new girlfriend Night Bitch. The cops are unable to stop The Motherfucker and his new team as they wreak havoc across the city leaving nothing but carnage in their paths.
Kick-Ass 2 features a brilliant new cast of characters alongside superb acting with Jim Carrey's performance as Colonel Stars and Stripes being his best performance since his role as Ace Ventura. The story this time around is a little bland and just isn't as inspiring as it was in the first film. The whole movie consists of everyone fighting who they really are and the destiny before them to only accept it after most of their loved ones have paid the price and die in the process.
In the end,
Kick-Ass 2 still contains the same intense action-packed fun as the first film but the story just isn't as intriguing this time around. It is easy to say, we probably don't even want to see a
Kick-Ass 3. This is the type of movie that would have been better just stopping at the first film and no sequels were really needed. But if you are looking to kill a little time, then definitely check out
Kick-Ass 2 from Redbox for $1. However, I wouldn't pay anymore than that to see it.
Score: 4.5 out of 10Movie InformationWriter/Director: Jeff Wadlow
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Genre: Action
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jim Carrey, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Lindy Booth, and Clark Duke
