Hit Girl attempts to befriend her high school's queen bee and suffers her first experience of back-stabbing that's wholly figurative. The setup sounds as delightfully silly as Goldman and Vaughn's original, but Wadlow's script lacks the pair's confidence in following its funniest ideas through. His alias? The Motherfucker.Īaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloë Grace Moretz as Kick-Ass and Hit Girl in Kick-Ass 2. Meanwhile D'Amico's orphaned son, Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), is acting out – he's splashing cash on recruiting a gang of supervillains to takedown Kick-Ass. Kick-Ass has hooked up with Justice Forever, an amateur heroics society led by reformed gangster Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). Hit Girl is taking time out to try being a normal teenager. It's four years since Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor Johnson) and Hit Girl defeated drug kingpin Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong).
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It's a have-a-go affair that tries out the same blend of red-blooded action and salty-blue humour, but serves mainly to bolster the bravery of the original. Kick-Ass 2 – handed to writer/director Jeff Wadlow by Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman – is significantly less confident and less brazen. Put bluntly, Hit Girl would have no problem squaring up to the Wolverine, the Man of Steel and the Avengers and calling them the c-word. The pomposity of the classic superhero story was given a beating.
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Honour and justice were bustled into the background. There was a starring role for a Chloë Grace Moretz's Hit Girl, an 11-year old assassin with a taste for blood and a knack for profanity. There was gore, there was death, there were swearwords. The action comedy – about a dorky teen who re-models himself as the titular crime-fighter – tackled the blockbusting phoniness of most comic book adaptations head on. With hindsight Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass was a rare treat: a graphically violent, hysterically rude superhero film.