We make excuses when we've done something wrong, and Kick-Ass 2 is full of excuses. It thinks it can excuse its misogyny because it has Hit-Girl. It thinks it can excuse its misguided notion of heroism because the costumed characters occasionally do a non-violent good deed. It thinks it can excuse the juvenile antics because it's occasionally morose and "serious". And the action is a poor excuse for what director/co-writer Matthew Vaughn provided in the first movie. Kick-Ass 2 writer-director Jeff Wadlow is all too happy to seize upon the violence and quirks of Vaughn's film and discards anything that played up the joy of playing a superhero. Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is ready to take his superhero game to the next level, and he wants Mindy Macready / Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) to train him. Their paths diverge when Mindy's guardian Marcus (Morris Chestnut) asks her to give up her sociopathic crime fighting, and try to live as a "normal" high school freshman, which means trying to fit in with the popular girls. Without a partner, Kick-Ass teams up with a bunch of new superheroes led by Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). Meanwhile, Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is out for revenge against Kick-Ass, and adopts the supervillain alter-ego, "The Motherfucker". He then proceeds to build a team of supervillains to take down Kick-Ass and his costumed cohorts. Wadlow sets out to up the ante of the first movie without understanding that Vaughn's film was a balancing act. Wadlow ...
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