maninahat
Since: Apr, 2009
08/22/2013 00:00:00
Splendid review. That's helped me a lot.
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BonsaiForest
Since: Jan, 2001
08/23/2013 00:00:00
Your first paragraph told me everything I needed to know. Your second summed it up perfectly. The first movie at least mixed the semi-realistic effects of trying to be a local costumed crimefighter, with the absurd over-the-top action of the second half. This movie just sounds really stupid.
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(Spoilers) ... I've seen worse?
Kick-Ass starts dating Night Bitch. Hit-Girl uses a Sick Stick to make high school girls vomit and shit uncontrollably. Red Mist accidentally kills his mother, changes his name to 'The Motherfucker', and assembles the 'Toxic Mega-Cunts'. The Motherfucker tries to rape Night Bitch, but he can't get it up. Then after a fight scene, a shark eats his legs and dick.
... I feel less like I watched 'Kick-Ass 2' and more like I watched an adaptation of a bad Kick-Ass fanfiction written by a foul-mouthed teenager.
I really enjoyed the first Kick-Ass movie (even though it had trouble figuring out whether it wanted to be a deconstruction or a reconstruction and it ended up not quite succeeding at either,) mainly because it took all the good things from the Mark Millar comic and left all of the bad. Having read The Unfunnies, I am very well-acquainted with the bad; Mark Millar has a habit of pushing together as many crude situations and shocking topics as possible, and then labelling the result 'parody' or 'deconstruction' without researching what those words actually mean. Kick-Ass 2 still tries to distance itself from the more offensive acts in the comic, but it just can't save itself. I'm not offended by over-the-top violence, vulgar humour and bad language, but a good movie needs more than that, and this movie doesn't really have more than that.
The Good
The action scenes were very entertaining.
I laughed at more than a few of the jokes.
Jim Carrey and Donald Faison were both excellent, along with Jorah Mor-I mean, Iain Glen who steals the show with one scene.
The Bad
The plot is boring and predictable.
The dark humour is 95% dark and only 5% humour.
Chris D'Amico is faithful to the comics but derailed horribly from the first movie. He's too pathetic to be a Complete Monster and too villainous to be a Butt Monkey.
Overall, this isn't one of my least-favourite movies, but I can't hear 'Toxic Mega-Cunts' without cringing. Do not watch this unless you're sure beforehand that you'll enjoy it.