Kick Ass 2

A Very Un-Kick Ass Sequel

Director: Jeff Wadlow

Release Date: 2013

Rating: 15

Running Time:105 mins

Genre: Comedy/Horror

Actors: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace-Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carey

Some films just don't need sequels.

So the everyday superhero's adventures continue with the overly bloody and overly ridiculous 'Kick Ass 2'. I felt like they had the potential to do something great with this but instead they choose to go too over-the-top and try to be too outrageous, taking a lot of enjoyment out of the film. Don't get me wrong, I loved the first installment due to it's originality, humour and action, but this sequel just could not compete in the same league, and the first one even had Nick Cage in it, an actor who I have seen in nothing good ever.

It felt too much like the writers thought that due to the success and popularity of 'Kick Ass', they had to raise the stakes of 'Kick Ass 2' and involve more violence, gore and characters, but for me, they did this too much. 

I think the best way of summing it up was that there was too much going on and it got to the point where it was just too stupid and unbelievable. The first half was good, well it was better than the second anyway. It felt like it was going somewhere and had the chance to be something good, but then it got too over the top, too fast. The violence in it was more than I would expect in some horror films and at one stage it felt more like a 'Final Destination' installment rather than a 'Kick Ass' one, particularly seeing as at one point we see two cops get murdered with a lawn mower. It just felt like death, death, death in every scene, and this made it feel like it was becoming too serious to be a comedy. 

I don't know whether the writers plan to make a 'Kick Ass 3', but if they do, I hope they go back to the old school 'Kick Ass' rather than the new one, cause the two films are just in completely different leagues to one another.

3/10