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REVIEW / Kick-Ass 2
performance. We found ourselves
laughing out loud at The Motherfucker's
antics, as well as cringing at the more
offensive and morally debatable scenes.
Across town...
Mindy has been grounded for going out
as Hit-Girl after being told by her legal
guardian, Detective Marcus Williams
(Morris Chestnut), that she needs to
forget that life. This leaves Dave with
no choice but to team up with Justice
Forever: a team of heroes lead by
the polite yet brutal reborn Christian
badass Captain Stars and Stripes (Jim
Carrey). Captain Stars and Stripes takes
on the father figure role for this film
much like Big Daddy in the previous.
We only wish that there was more of
him so Carrey could have had more fun
with the character.
Unbeknown to Justice Forever, the
Motherfucker has started assembling
his own team of supervillains, known as
“The Toxic Mega Cunts”, a collection of
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"We found ourselves laughing out loud
at The Motherfucker's antics, as well
as cringing at the more offensive and
morally debatable scenes."
the meanest, toughest, scariest villains
he could dig up. One to look out for in
particular is Mother Russia, a musclebound Russian woman who’s hell-bent
on death and destruction and bears an
uncanny resemblance to Kurt Russell.
The suburban set piece involving the
cops and Mother Russia is a testament
to her ability to kill and maim in the
most subversive of ways. There’s even
a lawnmower death scene redolent of
Peter Jackson’s Braindead.
Just then...
The film’s final act leads us into an overthe-top, violent showdown. There are
no bazookas or jetpacks this time round,
but the stakes have been upped with the
number of heroes and villains duking it
out on-screen. It makes for an enjoyable,
silly and entertaining film. While it
might not be as good or as smart as the
first Kick-Ass, Wadlow, Millar and co.
deserve credit for taking the franchise
in a new direction. Violent as the movie
is, compared to Millar’s graphic novel of
Jim Carrey gets less than eight
minutes of screen time, but the actor
has since distanced himself from KickAss 2 after announcing via Twitter
that he no longer felt comfortable
with the level of violence in the film,
following the Sandy Hook tragedy
which occurred just a month after the
filming for Kick-Ass 2 was completed.