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Kick-Ass 2
2013
**½
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jim Carrey, Clark Duke, Morris Chestnut, Donald Faison, John Leguizamo, Augustus Prew, Garrett M. Brown, Iain Glen, Lindy Booth, Robert Emms, Steven Mackintosh

When Hit-Girl goes on hiatus, Kick-Ass finds kinship in a team of amateur superheroes. At the same time, Red Mist rebrands himself and assembles a group of nasty villains. The sequel to Kick-Ass offers more of the same. What was clever in the original, now feels overly familiar. Thankfully the movie is funny, subversive, offensive, and violent. Based on Hit Girl and Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.