All said and done, this movie definitely kicks ass. But violence aside, there's also the message about the real hero being the person behind the costume and not the accoutrements. Beneath the deliberately ridiculous costumes and mock-serious dialogues lies a sea of brutality and gore gleefully topped off with the kind of language that would make a sailor blush. He asks Mindy Macready to train him so he can become a proper hero. Dave Lizewski has retired from fighting crime, but inspired other ordinary citizens to become super heroes. Politically incorrect dialogues aside, Kick-Ass 2 is actually quite a fun ride. Kick-Ass 2 is the sequel to Kick-Ass where Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume and Chris D'Amico/Red Mist plots an revenge on Kick-Ass. Another involves Hit Girl paying cheeky homage to Kill Bill Vol 1's Yakuza battle scene. In one violent sequence, the ripped Mother Russia (Olga Kurkulina) feels the rage and shreds a bunch of cops using a powered lawnmower. The bad guy, Chris (Mintz-Plasse) blames Kick-Ass for his father's death, emerges in a new avatar called The Mother f**ker (the costume being his dead mom's S&M outfit and sex toys), recruits a bunch of 'heavy hitters' and seeks revenge. Gravity (Faison), Ass Kicker (Augustus Prew) and Battle Guy (Clark Duke).
Not to be outdone, he finds himself a new team comprising Colonel Stars and Stripes (Carrey), Night Bitch (Lindy Booth), Dr. Dave (often parodying Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker) is turned down by her.
But she has her own issues -an over-protective dad, an identity crisis and fellow students who try to erode her self-esteem. High-schooler Dave (Taylor-Johnson, alter-ego Kick-Ass) tries to convince Mindy (Chloë, playing Hit Girl) to train him. You have an almost surreal situation where ordinary folks wearing clown-like (pyjamas included) costumes dish out the kind of gore that looks quite nasty. Review: Jeff Wadlow's follow-up to Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass (2010) attempts to penetrate deeper into the contrast between the wish-fulfillment of ordinary people living out their fantasy versus living a 'regular' life. Story: Can anyone become a superhero? It certainly seems so! Here, Kick-Ass teams up with other vigilantes to form the crime-fighting Justice Forever clan.
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