GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
Info:
- Release Date: August 16, 2013
- Creators: Jeff Wadlow (director), Mark Millar (writer)
- Genre: Comic Book Movie
- Rating: ★★★☆☆
Plot:
- Chris D'Amico (a.k.a. Red Mist) starts a second life of crime as The Motherfucker after accidentally kickboxing his mom to death in a sun bed. Kick-Ass does his best to stop the evil reign of terror, while Hit Girl deals with the usual teen angst bullshit at high school.
Notes:
- Mrs. D'Amico's blender beverage with gin bottles on the table
- The sheer joy of watching tiny purple-haired Hit Girl take down an alley of thugs
- Hell, make that the sheer joy of watching Mother Russia take out all the good guys
- The Motherfucker's wanton destruction of a Pepsi/Gatorade stand
- Mindy figuring out that she really likes the teen boy band, Union Jay
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson's one-armed pull-ups
- Motherfucker's evil lair in Long Island City, complete with shark tank and frappuccino stand
- "Mindy beat me like morning wood, every day for three weeks"
- "Mother Russia and Motherfucker on the same team? That doesn't really work, Chris"
- "I'll be immortal, like an evil Jesus"
Cast:
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kick-Ass
- Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit Girl
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Motherfucker
- Morris Chestnut as Marcus
- John Leguizamo as Javier
- Olga Kurkulina as Mother Russia
- Lindy Booth as Night Bitch
- Jim Carrey as Colonel
- Yancy Butler as Mrs. D'Amico
- Clark Duke as Battle Guy
- Iain Glen as Uncle Ralph
- Daniel Kaluuya as Black Death
- Andy Nyman as The Tumor
- Augustus Prew as Ass Kicker
- Tom Wu as Genghis Carnage
