The plot of Kick-Ass 2 is pretty simple: Mindy and Dave-aka Kick-Ass-are back in high school and trying to adapt to “normal” life. One of the few things Kick-Ass 2 does right is the relationship between Marcus and Mindy as he tries to give her the normal childhood that her father robbed her of in the first movie. Hit Girl is the ultimate power fantasy, an unstoppable force of revenge and retribution who happens to spend a lot of her time castrating men, emotionally and sometimes even physically.īut in Kick-Ass 2 Hit Girl spends most of her time out of her costume and in the guise of Mindy McCready, the orphaned child left in the care of her father’s former partner Marcus (Morris Chestnut). It sounds high-falutin’ but there is a reason the vast majority of her aggression in Kick-Ass is directed at men. Because Hit Girl, in the form of sweet-faced Chloe Grace Moretz, is an avatar for women fighting back against men-against patriarchal ideals, domination and violence. Vaughn for his visual flair and sly sensibility and Goldman for both her smarts and her feminine touch-Hit Girl really needs a female voice behind her. Kick-Ass was directed by Matthew Vaughn ( X-Men: First Class) and co-written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman ( X-Men: First Class, The Debt), and the sequel sorely missed them. But writer/director Jeff Wadlow ( Never Back Down) failed to see the burning car on the side of the road and drove Kick-Ass 2 directly into the flaming pile of shit before him. Well I suppose it was unintentionally ironic, simply because I cannot imagine someone missing the point of Kick-Ass so badly-it wasn’t exactly subtle.
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But Kick-Ass 2 was a slog to get through, both boring and inane, and in an unintentionally ironic turn, it glorifies precisely the kind of violence the first movie made so ugly and brutal. I really loved Kick-Ass, especially its tween psychopath/heroine Hit Girl and its subversive take on superhero culture.
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