Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013) by Li An B — 15 Feb 2014

It's nowhere as fun or original as the first movie, but as Jim Carrey says "I try to have fun. Otherwise, what's the point?" Comparing to the book, it combines the Hit-Girl and the Kick Ass 2 story lines with heavily mixed results.

Hit Girl, the obvious break out from the first, is drowned out in a weird Mean Girls inspired story for the first half which really doesn't do itself justice. It's just not funny or really interesting.

The Kick-Ass 2 portion is a bit better, straying a bit from the comic book, but smartly coming up with excuses to explain the missing bits (really to avoid the gore of a "dog head" and "rape".

The rape avoidance worked, the dog head was just....awkward). The movie touches the themes a bit better than the comic, but it just feels too slow in the beginning, and when it picks up, it doesn't really do the film much justice.

I'll still turn up for Kick-Ass 3, but there isn't really much here (besides trying to find where Toronto fits in. Maybe a mayoral story?). It sucks Nic Cage was too busy to even do a cameo.