It’s still Dave’s superhero name in the title, though, and he’s continuing to fight the good fight, his enthusiasm buoyed by the imitators who’ve followed in his footsteps. At the same time, Chris D’Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) aka Red Mist (now calling himself The Motherf**ker) gets back on the path to supervillainy, desperate for revenge against the costumed crime fighters who killed his father. Meanwhile, Mindy Macready (Chloe Grace Moretz), aka Hit-Girl, has been adopted by her late father’s former partner, and sneaks out to train Dave using the techniques developed by Big Daddy. The film, set a little while after the first, revisits the exploits of Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) aka Kick-Ass, as he continues to fight crime armed with little more than batons and a wetsuit. Wadlow’s task was to turn the ashes of that into something new, and what Kick-Ass 2 lacks in spectacle, it makes up for in heart. It’s a risk, there’s no doubt about it, but it’s also necessary: Kick-Ass was a firework of a movie: bright and fast and ending just at the moment you were most impressed. But rather than just remake the first film, Wadlow has done something a little different with Kick-Ass, producing a film that’s far more character-focused. It’s at least as violent and satirical and funny as the original, and at times it’s actually more shocking. But has it retained what made the original great?įor the most part, yes. Three years have passed since the original, and although still produced by Matthew Vaughn, it now has a new writer-director in the shape of upstart Jeff Wadlow. You can’t take three steps this year without tripping over a superhero sequel at the box office, and that makes it the perfect time for a follow up to Kick-Ass, the superhero-skewering action movie that was part-homage, part-parody, and all-brilliant.
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