Looking to get back into the game, Dave hooks up with make-shift hero team Justice Forever, led by ex-Mafioso turned born again Christian, Colonel Stars and Stripes ( Jim Carrey) and including the likes of Night Bitch ( Lindy Booth), Insect Man, Dr. The stage is set for a three-pronged narrative that watches these young people grow up in the spiral of over-heated fan boy dreams of violence and derring-do. The emotional trajectory is mostly treated with a straight-forward hand, sending Dave off to get training from Mindy until she “retires” at the behest of foster father Morris Chestnut, while Chris accidentally kills his mum, and then decks himself out in her dominatrix gear, rechristened as The Motherf***er. With the exception of Nicholas Cage’s nutty, devil-may-care grin staring from a quaint portrait in the training room, there’s not much energy or interest mined from the current trend of superheroes to whine and cry for lack of hugs and snuggles from papa. Wadlow’s film provides an entertaining jaunt through the Kick-Ass universe, and finds ample reason to follow Dave, Mindy and Chris through their growing-up, but is simply too enthrall to the alleged legacy of its predecessor to break through and be it’s own agent.īeing your own agent, though, is the very crux of Kick-Ass 2, and it’s a comedown for the series’ satirical force when all three central characters contract major daddy issues that are never played for anything less than cheap, intended pathos.
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The movie may be more traditionally coiffed in the comic-book mode, but it’s also more accessible and occasionally more engaging, especially when it comes to catching the yearning of finding your place and being more than you are.Īt the same time, though, there’s just something missing, and although the first film had its flaws, it always felt more assured and accomplished than what we get here, even when the script has culled better material from the hot mess of Millar’s comic sequel.
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The action sequences zip along, there’s some added pep from the introduction of Justice Forever, a masked team that bridges the gap between Watchmen and Mystery Men, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse steals the show as Chris D’Amico, once Dave’s old pal “Red Mist,” now the world’s first super-villain. Although director Jeff Wadlow is never as resourceful or artistically nuanced in his staging of the story, I found myself connecting with the characters, finally understanding Lizewski’s yearning to do the right thing, real-life be damned, and sympathizing with Hit Girl, who tries to keep a promise to her deceased dad and spends most of the movie contending with high-school bitch elite. Now, Kick-Ass 2 arrives on the scene, and how you take it may depend largely on how much you adore the original movie. Inexplicably, my ass wasn’t kicked, so much as lightly swatted. No, matter the protestations of its acolytes, take away some of the tasty icing, and Kick-Ass was almost business as usual at the origin story factory. The film itself skirted around satire and drama, playing with the undercurrents of super-hero wish fulfillment and sent-up the so-called heroics of wannabe vigilantes. Vaughn captured some fantastic sequences, such as Dave Lizewski’s ( Aaron Taylor-Johnson) first major skirmish outside a convenience store and the arrival of diminutive, fetish-geared Hit Girl ( Chloë Grace Moretz), an adolescent who shish-kabobed self-proclaimed c**ts to the candy-coated strains of the Banana Splits. When I was first confronted with Matthew Vaughn’s understandably diluted take on Mark Millar’s blood-soaked comics, I found my reaction somewhere in the middle ground. When it comes to the original Kick-Ass movie, many considered it either a great subversive piss-take on comic book heroics or a banal case of the emperor’s new clothes.
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