It was a good movie, yet very different to the comic. I haven't read the Hit Girl solo outing yet, so a lot of the storyline to me was completely different to Kick-Ass 2 the comic. Maybe the Mindy (Chloe Grace Moretz) as a normal girl was explored more fully in that one. But therein lied the film's downfall. Most of the B plot was interesting, but seriously the solution of the sick making stick. That was a little too slapstick for my liking, and a bit crude.
Other than that, the Union J jokes were funny, and Mindy's crush on Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) was realistically played out, with everyone thinking he was a pedophile.
The pedophile thing was a good and clever way of writing out the character of Katie, because, as most fans of the comic know, it wasn't such a happy ending for her and Dave in the first comic, let alone the second one.
Making Night Bitch the victim of the Mother Fucker's attempted rape was unnecessary, but I do think the toning down of that same scene from the comic book was needed for the movie market or for fans of Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played him. A light hearted film such as this, couldn't have that one minute, and the next, make a joke about pubescent teenage girls fancying musclebound men. Jeff Wadlow, who also adapted the comic to screenplay as well as directed, barely just got away with the killing of Mr Lizewski. The same goes for the beheaded dog/Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey) scene. It would have dampened the film, and made it an 18, missing out on a key demographic that the film is aimed at.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
PS No matter how good friends you are with someone, you would not be their friend anymore if they helped a supervillain kill your father. Unrealistic!
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