"Okay, he’s the butt of the joke, but in a film whose heroine is a 15-year-old girl beating up a bunch of bad dudes, that’s not just bad taste – it leaves a bad taste." "'Kick-Ass 2’ notches it up with an offensive rape joke (man tries to rape woman, can’t get it up)," Clark wrote. Although Clark did not seem troubled by the blood-letting, she found the film's treatment of sexuality to be troubling. Some jokes land, Time Out's Cath Clarke wrote, but the film isn't as zesty or entertaining as the original.
"Then again, the whole movie could be considered a questionable attempt at appealing to 14-year-old boys, as the delightful irony of the first 'Kick-Ass' was apparently exhausted before the sequel was made." "There are some questionable attempts at appealing to the 14-year-old boys in the audience: projectile vomiting, a rape joke, extreme language," Hicks wrote. The whole enterprise suffered from the taste and refinement that one associates with adolescence, he implied. He wrote that "Kick-Ass 2" had trouble making up its mind if it wanted to send up action films or get in the muck with them. Tony Hicks of the San Jose Mercury News also appeared troubled by the film's approach to violence. "A witless, mean-spirited sequel, 'Kick-Ass 2' has the emotional maturity of an arrested 12-year-old and the ethical compass of a turnip," Burr wrote. He doesn't seem to be keeping his fingers crossed for a trilogy. Burr hated the film, branding it coarse, smug and ugly. And I’m going to need one very, very brave actor or actress to play the new Kick-Ass because it will scare the shit out of them.That no-holds barred assessment is gentler than Ty Burr's review in the Boston Globe. It’ll cause just as much controversy, and everyone will talk about it and as many people that love it will hate it.’ But I’m not saying it hasn’t got the characters in it and won’t have, you know… I’m just saying it’s not what anyone could be imagining what it is.
You can’t do that.’ So, I had this idea, and it was so nuts that I went, ‘Yeah, great. No one will want to see an R-rated superhero. Everyone was like, ‘Oh, you can’t make R-rated superheroes. I think Kick-Ass became a new type of genre. “Because I think the clue is in the title. So why a reboot instead of Kick-Ass 3? Explained Vaughn,
Once those rights revert totally back to Marv, it will be full steam ahead on the reboot. That two-year timetable is based on the fact that while Vaughn’s Marv Films own the property’s rights, they’ve been licensed out to different companies in the United States, France, Germany, and elsewhere. All the rights revert back in two years and then we’re going to reboot it where people will be like, ‘He is insane.'” “It’s so fucking nuts that I can’t talk about it,” he said (via Collider). Starring Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Nicolas Cage, and Chloë Grace Moretz in her breakout role, the film brought a level of ultra-violence and foul language to crime fighting that received as much outrage as it did fan appreciation.Ī sequel followed in 2013, and Vaughn is now looking to restart the bloody battle with a new story. The black comedy came out in 2010, just at the genesis of the superhero movie craze. Speaking at a virtual press junket for his upcoming The King’s Man, Vaughn was asked about another of comic book creator Mark Millar’s other successful film adaptations: Kick-Ass. Filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has revealed that he has eyes on a “big reboot” of the cult favorite R-rated comic book movie franchise Kick-Ass.
With no power comes no responsibility - but it does come with a reboot.