Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013) by Grant S — 06 Jul 2014

Not anywhere near as good as the first movie. The first Kick-Ass was surprisingly good. From the trailers it looked like a low-brow, juvenile, comic-book teen movie. Turns out it was quite funny, reasonably well structured, solidly directed and well acted.

Kick-Ass 2, on the other hand, is exactly like I expected the first movie to be, ie a low-brow, juvenile, comic-book teen movie. Quite silly.

Has its moments though, so not a total waste. Still, while the first one was in effect a good send-up of comic book action heroes, and quite clever in doing so, this one is not clever at all. Pretty much just gratuitous violence.

Hopefully there is no Kick-Ass 3...