Kick-Ass 2

Director: Jeff Wadlow, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack Jeff Wadlow

Overview

His heroic antics having inspired a citywide wave of masked vigilantes, Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) joins their ranks to help clean up the streets, only to face a formidable challenge when the vengeful Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) transforms himself into the world's first super villain in this sequel written and directed by Jeff Wadlow (Never Back Down). Dave/Kick-Ass and Mindy/Hit Girl (Chlo? Grace Moretz) are about to graduate from high school and become a crime-fighting duo when their noble plans are foiled by Mindy's strict godfather. Now, as Mindy hangs up her Hit Girl uniform and navigates the treacherous high-school social scene, Kick-Ass begins patrolling the streets with Justice Forever, a fearless group of urban watchdogs fronted by former mob thug Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). They've got the criminal element on the run when Chris D'Amico lays his Red Mist persona to rest, and reemerges as The Mother F**ker, a powerful criminal mastermind with a loyal legion of henchmen. The Mother F**ker is determined to avenge the death of his late father, who previously perished at the hands of Kick-Ass and Hit Girl. Now, as The Mother F**ker and his minions begin targeting the members of Justice Forever, Hit Girl realizes that the only way to save Kick-Ass and his new friends is to emerge from her forced retirement, and fight back with everything she's got. John Leguizamo, Donald Faison, Morris Chestnut, and Robert Emms co-star.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/17/2013
UPC:	0025192167874
Original Release:	2013
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:43:00
Sales rank:	6,035

Special Features

Extended scenes; Upping the game; Creating a badass world; Going ballistic: Weapons & stunts; Feature Commentary with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz and Writer/Director Jeff Wadlow

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Chloë Grace Moretz	Mindy Macready/Hit Girl
Christopher Mintz-Plasse	Plasse-Chris D'Amico/Red Mist
John Leguizamo	Javier
Donald Faison	Dr. Gravity
Robert Emms	Actor
Jim Carrey	Actor
Enzo Cilenti	Actor
Morris Chestnut	Actor
Yancy Butler	Actor
Claudia Lee	Actor
Amy Anzel	Actor
Clark Duke	Actor
Augustus Prew	Actor
Mary Kitchen	Actor
Matt Steinberg	Actor
Steven Mackintosh	Actor
Monica Dolan	Actor
Garrett M. Brown	Actor
Lyndsy Fonseca	Actor
Tom Benedict Knight	Actor
Sophie Wu	Actor,Actor
Paul Raposo	Actor
David Vena	Actor
Chris Chan	Actor
Trevor Allan Davis	Actor
Lindy Booth	Actor
Cinna	Actor
Ella Purnell	Actor
Tanya Fear	Actor
Charlie Clapham	Actor
Chuck Liddell	Actor
Daniel Kaluuya	Actor
Trenyce Cobbins	Actor
Wesley Morgan	Actor
King Lau	Actor
Benedict Wong	Actor
Chantelle Chung	Actor
Andy Nyman	Actor
Olga Kurkulina	Actor
Angelica Jopling	Actor
Dimitry Arvantis	Actor
Iain Glen	Actor
Eben Young	Actor
John Bregar	Actor
Mike Chute	Actor
Chris Cordell	Actor
Shane Daly	Actor
Kevin Kase	Actor
Martin Roach	Actor
John Schwab	Actor
Todd Boyce	Actor
Jesse Camacho	Actor
Stewart Scudamore	Actor
Mif	Actor
Rob Archer	Actor
James Cutler	Actor
Adam Bond	Actor
Nicolas Cage	Actor
Henry Jackman	Composer
Matthew Margeson	Composer
Trevor Allan Davies	le vieil homme
Aaron Taylor-Johnson	Actor

Technical Credits

Jeff Wadlow

Mark Millar

Jeff Wadlow	Director,Screenwriter
Matthew Vaughn	Producer,Executive Producer,Producer
Tarquin Pack	Producer,Director
Adam Bohling	Producer,Director
David Reid	Producer
Brad Pitt	Producer
Trevor Duke-Moretz	Executive Producer,Producer
Pierre Lagrange	Executive Producer,Producer
Stephen Marks	Executive Producer
Mark Millar	Executive Producer,Screenwriter,Producer
John S. Romita Jr.	Executive Producer,Producer
Claudia Schiffer	Executive Producer,Producer
Tyler Bender	Sound Effects
Chris Burdon	Sound Effects
Matthew Collinge	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Susan Abramson	Casting
John Romita	Executive Producer
Justine Hempe	Casting
Jason Knight	Casting
Laird McMurray Film Services	Special Effects
John Buchan	Casting
Reg Poerscout-Edgerton	Casting
Phaze UK	Sound Editor
Paul Carter	Sound/Sound Designer
Wayne Lemmer	Sound/Sound Designer
Danny Sheehan	Sound/Sound Designer
Robert Prynne	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The first Kick-Ass movie was an inarguable success in many regards (casting, performances, general charisma) and an equally flawed affair in others (evenness, fantasy
eality balance, not enough screen time with Hit-Girl). Kick-Ass 2, however, gets just about everything right. It's a good time from beginning to end, with a story that never leaves you wishing it would get back to the good stuff. The narrative picks up shortly after the events of the first movie: Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), aka Kick-Ass, is trying in vain to readjust to high-school life after winning a fight to the death with a mob boss, whose orphaned teenage son Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is now using his newly inherited fortune to become a supervillain and avenge his dad. Dave doesn't know this, however; he just knows he's bored with being a regular guy. Meanwhile, since losing her own dad/crime-fighting partner, Mindy (Chloë Grace Moretz), aka Hit-Girl, has been flat-out lying to her new guardian, Detective Marcus Williams (Morris Chestnut), about attending school and being a normal kid. She's skipping class to train at her clandestine hideout, and continues donning the mask by night. Dave thinks of the obvious answer to his dissatisfaction and asks Mindy if they can join forces, and it soon becomes apparent that there are plenty of other self-made superheroes walking the streets, led by a delightfully self-righteous guy who calls himself Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). As long as it can be assumed that you're interested in a movie like this at all -- based on the premise or affection for the first film -- Kick-Ass 2 delivers. It doesn't get caught up in clumsy exposition or ham-fisted attempts to shoehorn in backstory from the graphic novel. On the contrary, the script is impressively even and well-paced. That sense of balance is also apparent in the movie's net level of ridiculousness, as the amount of insane weaponry (Hit-Girl owns a lot of nunchakus), crazy motivations, and over-the-top events remain consistent from the start. What's also steady is the body count, as people are getting impaled and dismembered all over the place. In addition, there's a subplot that revolves around non-superhero high-school stuff, as there was in the first film, but at least here the main figure in that B-story is the cold and calculating Hit-Girl, rather than the bespectacled and bewildered Dave. And let's be honest, if there's any one thing this franchise needed, it was more Hit-Girl.