Reviews & Ratings for
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Almost everyone I know loved the first installment because of being unique,clever and funny and its sequel (especially second half) missed almost every ingredient.The movie continues from where the first part ended .There isn't much of a story and frankly i wasn't expecting much but it was sad that the unique blend of humor,drama & well-choreographed action sequence with awesome soundtrack was missing.
The first half is as close as it gets to the brilliance of first part.It hit us hard when Big Daddy died but here you don't feel a thing even when major characters are decapitated.The only savior is Chloë Grace Moretz aka "Hit Girl" whose character goes one-notch ahead and so does she,Chris D'Amico provided the much needed humor but Aaron Taylor-Johnson(Kick-Ass) looked rusty add to that Jim Carrey having not more than 6 scenes and all you get is Disappointment.Hopefully next part serves better.

Kick-Ass was very British. The director and writers were British. The hero and villain were British. It was even filmed in Pinewood. With some guy named Jeff Waldow responsible for the script and direction, Kick-Ass 2 is far too American.

It tries to be badass with attempts at snappy one-liners, but while the action isn't terrible (save for the police officers flying out of their car when that explosion inside could've burned them), the soundtrack isn't special compared to the first and any cliches that weren't present in the first are present here, like Dave bearing romantic interest. Plus, Christopher Mintz-Plasse is an even bigger pussy and Jim Carrey's only present for a few minutes. It looks at the first film like a 12 year old and not someone 12 years older.

Kick-Ass 1 at least made sure that the gore went as far as to blow up someone in a giant microwave, the shift in tone from sick and fun to dark as shit reminded us that being like Dave Lizewski could get us killed for no reason, and the hero eventually managed to be more powerful than Hit-Girl. Kick-Ass 2? Eh, it's sick alright (and I mean zap you with some device that makes you vomit like a cartoon sick), but it's also muddled, and that's just about all there is.

Fuck you, Mark Millar, and your mediocre new writer-director choices. Now Wadlow's off to direct an X-Men spin-off.