Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 28% (Critics) / 78% (Audience)
Directed By: Jeff Wadlow
Written By: Jeff Wadlow
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jim Carrey
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis: The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows. – (Source)

The Good:
This is Chloë Grace Moretz’s movie from start to finish. Her Hit Girl is the most interesting costumed hero in the movie and the story of how a teen-age girl tries to balance her life as a butt-kicking purple specter of justice with being a normal high school student is infinitely more interesting than anything else going on in the movie.
I do have to give Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jim Carrey their due though; as the psychotic mob brat with a twisted obsession on Kick-Ass, Mintz-Plasse is non-stop fun to watch and Carrey’s Colonel Stars and Stripes was totally entertaining in every scene he was in.

The Bad:
The casting of Aaron Taylor-Johnson was a problem for me in the first film and it just got worse with this one. Regardless of how much the movie tried to “SHE’S ALL THAT” Taylor-Johnson with nerdy glasses and bad hair, it did nothing to mask the fact that he is a strapping and athletic young man. It also didn’t help matters that the film seemed to take every opportunity to showcase the guy’s physique either. The only way that Kick-Ass truly works as a character is if his portrayer is someone in the Michael Cera category who looks like he is more likely to be stuffed into a locker than to have a hot girlfriend.

The Ugly
This movie played everything so tongue-in-cheek to the point that major emotional storyline beats never really amount to much. It is hard to feel these character’s pain when the movie makes light of any real emotion at every turn. Putting a little heft into the proceedings would have gone a long way to making this movie more than just a bunch of violent action scenes sewn together with a story that really doesn’t matter.

Final Verdict: Moretz steals the show in this movie and every scene she is not in only made me wish even harder that I was watching the Hit Girl movie instead of KICK-ASS 2. Thankfully Moretz was in this movie a lot and she got inspired scenery chewing performances from Mintz-Plasse and Carrey to help carry the load that the star of the movie dropped.

Grade: C+