Let’s do some gratuitous violence
– Norman Reedus (Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day)
This is the highly awaited sequel to 2010’s Kick-Ass
When I heard that they were making a sequel to Kick-Ass, I was excited to say the least, when I heard that Mathew Vaughn wasn’t directing it I was very disappointed and when I saw the trailer when it first came out I became skeptical but I did go to see it anyway because I wanted to see what they are doing with the series.
The plot of this movie, again follows Dave Lizewski as Kick Ass and his dealing with everyday high school life, the story also involves Mindy Mcready (Hit Girl) simultaneously trying to adjust to her new life after the events of the first movie. The movie shows these two characters trying to manage their time between being Kick Ass and Hit Girl to being just regular teenagers. The conflict of the film comes as Chis D’Amico, still enraged after the events that unfolded in the first Kick Ass, is trying to set out to be the “Worlds First Super-Villain” and is assembling an evil team to cause destruction and also kill Kick Ass in the Process.
This film disappointed me a huge amount, it is a large dip in quality from the original and comes off to me as kind of cartoonish.
Ultimately where this movie fails is the fact that it is too intent on trying to show “cool” action sequences with gratuitous violence, an abundance of swearing and flashy things happening on screen than it is with character development and the evolving nature of the relationships between characters.
The plot is sloppy and seems thrown together as an excuse to show a number of action sequences.
There are a couple of good points to the movie, Chloe Grace Moretz is once again in great form as Hit Girl and really steals the show for the most part of the movie and there is a few new characters who are quite good, but the best of the new characters by far is Col. Stars and Stripes (played well by Jim Carrey).
The action scenes in this movie are undoubtedly going to entertain a good number of people but the lack of an interesting plot and failure to add anything new (apart from minor characters) to the series, has led me to advise fans of the original to wait until the movie comes out on dvd so they can rent it rather that go to the cinema to see it.
4/10 – Cody 4/10 – Jason N/A – Matthew N/A – Michael N/A – John 40%
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