Kick-Ass 2 - A Review

3.5 Stars - Okay

Kick-Ass was a big surprise when it came out. It was violent and crass, but had enough sincerity behind its ideas and enough heart in its characters to elevate it into something greater than its source material. Kick-Ass 2 on the other hand is missing  a lot of that.

Mark Millar's comic Kick-Ass 2 is dark, vulgar and just plain nasty and the film somewhat follows suit although from what I can gather a lot of stuff has been toned down it still breaks out unneeded levels of violence and shock deaths that are just nasty and don't fit with tone set by the first film, which had similar levels of violence but pulled them off in a more cartoonish manner.

The performances are all top notch and I would give some particular note to Jim Carrey, who through some prosthesis and putting on an accent is all but unrecognisable as Colonel Stars and Stripes and though he has a small role it's a fairly memorable one.

If you even mention the penguins I will club you

In short, I'd say worth a watch, but fans of the first film might be slightly dissapointed