Her decision splits the film onto two tracks: One charts Dave’s pursuits as he joins Justice Forever, a sub-sub-Avengers league of amateur vigilantes, while the other follows Mindy’s efforts to fit in at high school. Together they plan to form a team of crime-fighters and clean up New York City, but their plan hits a snag after a gory confrontation with a few street thugs, during which Kick-Ass again displays weakness under pressure and Hit Girl again reveals her skill at separating men from their upper extremities.Īt the worried insistence of Marcus ( Morris Chestnut), her legal guardian after her father’s untimely death in the first film, Mindy agrees to retire her purple wig and enjoy what’s left of her young adulthood. Romita Jr., compressing elements from two individual series, “Kick-Ass 2” and “Hit Girl,” into a 103-minute narrative that employs regular cross-cutting, comicbook-style captions and voiceover narration to keep its parallel plotlines in motion.Īs established in a punchy opening scene, clumsy Dave Lizewski ( Aaron Taylor-Johnson), better known as self-styled teenage superhero Kick-Ass, has been toughening up thanks to a vigorous workout regimen prescribed by the younger, far more formidable Mindy Macready (Moretz), aka Hit Girl.
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While “Kick-Ass” director/co-writer Matthew Vaughn remains a producer (alongside several other members of the original producing team), the creative reins have been turned over to rising multihyphenate Wadlow, who cut his teeth directing the 2008 boxing drama “Never Back Down” and has been a writer and producer on A&E’s “Bates Motel.” The scribe-helmer takes an appreciably loose, flippant approach to the ongoing Marvel series by Mark Millar and John S.
As for Jim Carrey’s widely reported condemnation of the picture’s splattery content, it should only drum up publicity among target viewers who are likely to be more intrigued than deterred by warnings of excessive violence. The 2010 Lionsgate film (budgeted at $30 million) grossed $96 million worldwide and became a sizable homevid hit, suggesting enough of a core fanbase to lend this Universal release a sustained commercial life.
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