It’s one thing to see her beat down and fight criminals, it’s another to watch her brutally maim and murder people with a heightened level of glee. I’ve always been conflicted about this character. The title character is Dave Lizewski, aka Kick-Ass ( Aaron Taylor-Johnson), but the real star is Mindy Macready, better known as Hit-Girl ( Chloë Grace Moretz). There are a lot of homophobic, misogynistic, and racial jokes thrown around, and while the novelty may have inspired some laughs in the first entry, it has quickly worn out its welcome. Action set pieces leave no lasting impact, fight scenes are incomprehensible due to the relentless camera shaking, and the comedy comes off as juvenile (and even borderline offensive). At the very least, Matthew Vaughn directed the original with some style and flair, whereas Wadlow (who also wrote the screenplay) flattens his film with loose plotting and generic visual capacity. The issues I had with the original Kick-Ass (2010) are magnified in this installment, mostly because of the change in filmmakers.
It never chooses a side, instead assuming we will go along with whatever mayhem is randomly thrown on screen.
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But the way it is handled in this series oscillates between satire and revelry. I don’t want to come across as some party-pooper who can’t enjoy violence in films, because I do if it’s in the right context. But on the other side, the slightest expression of sexuality (something many, if not most of us, will experience in some form) gets treated like forbidden subject matter. It’s strange how-at least to American censors-shootings, stabbings, decapitations, and other forms of extreme violence are more often than not accepted. Jeff Wadlow’s Kick-Ass 2 will once again bring up the discussion of violence in movies.
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