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Kick-Ass 2

2013

Jeff Wadlow

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey ...

6.0

27,017

Action. Comedy Kick-Ass 2 is the sequel to Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s original series Kick-Ass. The story follows the main character Kick-Ass who is trying to form a team of real life superheroes, as well as preparing for the arrival of The Red Mist, who has been gathering a team of "Supervillains" to take both Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl down.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"'Kick-Ass 2' improves on its 2010 predecessor in at least one respect: It doesn't make the mistake of trying to pass off its bone-crunching brutality as something shocking or subversive"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"The film delivers almost exactly what fans of the first installment are hoping for"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The writer and director, Jeff Wadlow, can’t obscure the movie’s misogyny, and he also has a tough time staging a scene and selling a joke"	NEG
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"The best thing about 'Kick-Ass' was Moretz, and Hit-Girl still gets the best lines. Like the first film, 'Kick-Ass 2' pulls the reality of teen life into its fantasy (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Cheap and repetitive (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Owen Williams Empire	"A more modest success than the first 'Kick-Ass' (...) 'Kick-Ass 2' still has its share of over-the-top action, and the sweary laughs are just about intact (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Mark Adams Screendaily	"Ultimately feels rather scattershot and disjointed, perhaps quite simply because it lacks the sheer left-field originality of the original"	NEG
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"'Kick-Ass 2' sometimes felt like being trapped in a room with the funniest guy in seventh grade (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'Kick-Ass' is a prime example of a movie that never should have bothered with a sequel (...) lacking the visual style and gleeful humor of the original (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It's no better, no worse and essentially no different from the jocular, clodhopping brutality of the first one (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Matthew Turner View London	"Despite strong performances and the occasional decent action sequence, this is a disappointing and largely pointless sequel that fails to capture the tone of the original and ends up feeling unpleasant on a number of different levels."	NEG

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