A follow up to the 2010’s hit action movie, Kick-Ass 2 reunites the superheroes and inspires new masked amateur supporters to follow suit.
Kick-Ass ended as Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl ventured into attempting to live their lives as Dave and Mindy, normal teenagers to no avail. After starting the first ever superhero team, Mindy is forced into retirement via her strict parents then leaving her partner Dave to venture off, finding new friends to help with patrolling the streets against newfound super villains including Red Mist, played by SuperBad‘s Christopher Mintz-Plasse who is out for revenge.
The original made $19.8 million its debut weekend and made over $96 million overall worldwide.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz reclaim their roles as Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl as well as some new faces like Donald Faison, John Leguizamo and Morris Chestnut.
Jim Carrey who has also joined the cast and plays ex-mob member Colonel Stars and Stripes has pulled away and disassociated himself from doing any promotion for the movie. On June 23, Carrey took to Twitter to announce that he no longer supported the film’s message. “I did ‘Kickass’ a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence.” Carrey, a gun-control activist has not made any further comment about his decision.
Director Jeff Wadlow explains that the film shows that violence has consequences. “Kick-Ass’ isn’t really about the glorification of violence the same way that ‘Die Hard’ or ‘White House Down’ or even (‘Man of Steel’) where 300,000 people get wiped out in Metropolis in the end are.”
Kick-Ass 2 is projected to gross $20 million and opens theatres nationwide on August 16th.
