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Kick-Ass 2
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2013 film directed by Jeff Wadlow
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Kick-Ass 2 is a 2013 action, comedy, and superhero film directed by Jeff Wadlow. The cast includes Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey, and Donald Faison. Matthew Vaughn and Brad Pitt served as producers, with Mark Millar acting as executive producer and co-screenwriter alongside Wadlow. The film was produced by Universal Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, and Marv Studios, and distributed by Universal Pictures and Netflix. It is the sequel to Kick-Ass and features English dialogue.
The narrative is set in New York City, with principal photography taking place in Toronto and London. Henry Jackman composed the score. The film has a runtime of 103 minutes and was released in 2013. It originated from the United Kingdom and the United States. The main subject of the story is revenge.
Critical reception varied, with review scores including 29%, 4.9/10, 41/100, and 33%. Audience ratings include a 6.5 score on IMDb based on 300,401 votes and a 6.405 average from 6,571 votes on TMDb. The film had a budget of 28,000,000 and generated revenue of 60,795,985.
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6.4After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother Fucker — only the blade-wielding Hit-Girl can prevent their annihilation.
Cast
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy Macready / Hit Girl
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris D'Amico / The Motherfucker
- Lyndsy Fonseca as Katie Deauxma
- Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes
- Iain Glen as Uncle Ralph
Themes
- secret identity
- crime fighter
- superhero
- based on comic
- aftercreditsstinger
- teen superhero
- amused
- appreciative
- forceful
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jeff Wadlow
- Screenplay by
- Jeff Wadlow
- Based on
- Hit Girl and Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall , by Mark Millar John Romita Jr.
- Produced by
- Matthew Vaughn Adam Bohling Tarquin Pack David Reid
- Starring
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson Christopher Mintz-Plasse Chloë Grace Moretz Jim Carrey
- Cinematography
- Tim Maurice Jones
- Edited by
- Eddie Hamilton
- Music by
- Henry Jackman Matthew Margeson
- Production companies
- Marv Films Plan B Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures (Worldwide) Toho-Towa (Japan)
- Release dates
- 14 August 2013 ( 2013-08-14 ) (United Kingdom) 16 August 2013 ( 2013-08-16 ) (United States) 24 February 2014 ( 2014-02-24 ) (Japan)
- Running time
- 103 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States Japan
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $28 million
- Box office
- $60.8 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Kick-Ass 2 is a 2013 black comedy superhero film written and directed by Jeff Wadlow, based on the graphic novels Book Two and Book Three of Kick-Ass – The Dave Lizewski Years by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and serving as a sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass. It is the second film in the Kick-Ass franchise, and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Jim Carrey, with the former trio reprising their roles from the first film. The film follows Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass (Taylor-Johnson), who joins a vigilante team called "Justice Forever", while Mindy Macready / Hit Girl (Moretz) attempts to live a normal life, and Chris D'Amico (Mintz-Plasse) taking up the mantle of The Motherfucker and forming a supervillain team to take revenge on Kick-Ass.
Kick-Ass 2 was released on 14 August 2013 in the United Kingdom, 16 August in the United States, and 24 February 2014 in Japan by Universal Pictures for the former two, and Toho-Towa for the latter. Despite receiving mixed to negative reviews from critics, the film earned $60.8 million on a $30 million budget. In January 2024, Matthew Vaughn revealed that a third Kick-Ass film, titled Stuntnuts: The Movie, directed by Damien Walters, had secretly been greenlit, cast, and had completed filming, set to release later that year.
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