I’d have loved to see the origin story of Dr Gravity (Faison) or how Night Bitch (Lindy Booth) transformed into a vigilante, but instead the focus is on the internal strife of Hit Girl. Though the rest of the eclectic cast has some fantastic actors, right from Donald Faison (Turk from Scrubs) to Steven Mackintosh ( Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)to Clark Duke ( Greek), they’re given very little to do. Had he been given a central role, this may well have been the turning point in his declining career and would certainly have made Kick-Ass 2 a far better film. Jim Carrey is phenomenal as Colonel Stars and Stripes, but his role is a glorified cameo. She is undoubtedly the spunkiest superhero that’s ever been conceived, and possibly the best female superhero that’s made it to the big screen.īut wherever Moretz is absent in the film, there is a gaping void. Because that’s how awesome she is.Īnd she steals the show in Kick-Ass 2 again and it is only the weight of her awesomeness that carries the film through. In Kick-Ass, her character of Hit Girl – a foul-mouthed, 11-year-old supergirl – caused a lot of controversy, but also made most fanboys all over the world count the days until she turns 18, so they could legally have a crush on her. Often, she is the best thing about the movies she stars in. When Kick-Ass originally came out, Moretz was too young to see her own film! But thankfully the acclaimed Hugo star is old enough to catch the sequel when Kick-Ass 2 hits theatres August 16th.At 16, Moretz has had a career of ten years already with directors like Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Kimberley Pierce, Marc Webb and Matthew Vaughn. The trailer features lots of ball kicking, sword spinning, and motorcycle zooming, but the highlight is when the malicious yet hilarious Mother F**ker (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) - who was previously the superhero Red Mist - announces his plan to seek revenge on Kick-Ass and build his own evil infantry. Although there’s no Nicolas Cage this time around in Kick-ass 2, we at least have Jim Carrey to engross us as the peculiar Colonel Stars and Stripes. The superheroes even round up more and more average joes to throw on costumes and help them fight injustice. Hit-Girl swears to relentlessly fight evil since she promised her father, Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) she would before he burned to his death. It’s not too long before the crime fighters throw on their skin-tight get-ups and take on their superhero identities. After Mindy kicks Dave to the ground, she hollers at him “to take your tampon out, Dave!” It doesn’t seem like Mindy’s sense of humor has matured much since the 2010 film!
The trailer, which proves to have a lot more sass and a hell of a lot more bite than its predecessor, starts off with a spunky training sesh between feisty gal Mindy (Chloe Moretz) and Dave.
The comedic action-jammed film follows high-schooler Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who takes on the alias Kick-Ass and teams up with a bunch of normal citizens to fight crime… while dressed in rather eccentric and elaborate costumes. It’s time to kick some serious ass, again! The everyday superhero duo of Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl are back fighting crime in the latest trailer for this summer’s release of Kick-Ass 2, the sequel to Kick-Ass (obviously).