Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
6/10
bigger team not necessarily better
1 August 2014
Mindy Macready (Chloë Grace Moretz) promises her new guardian Detective Marcus Williams (Morris Chestnut) that she won't be Hit-Girl anymore. She tries to fit in but falls out with mean girl Brooke (Claudia Lee). Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) as Kick-Ass joins up with Dr. Gravity (Donald Faison), Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), Night Bitch (Lindy Booth), and others to battle street crime. He can't convince Hit-Girl to join. Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) wants to avenge his father's death and kill Kick-Ass. He becomes The-MotherFcker and hires a gang of supervillains.

This depends on what you thought about this franchise. The movie tries to up the carnage. It tries to be some sort of Dark Knight lite. But it also tries to be a high school drama with Hit-Girl faced with Mean Girls. The whole things leaves the movie underwhelmed and a little bit scattered in tone. Hit-Girl's story is somewhat interesting but it's not supported by the other characters. Lyndsy Fonseca returns just to break up with Dave. She's prime to be there for the high school drama but she disappears. She could have been one of the new superhero. There is a whole new gang of superheroes. Jim Carrey is taking the place of Nicolas Cage. The other problem is that the three main characters are scattered into their own separate stories. It keeps straining to make some connection between them. Lastly, both Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloë Grace Moretz are getting too old to play high school kids.
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