Escape to the Movies: Kick Ass 2

[MovieBob]

Kick Ass 2

MovieBob gets down and dirty in this week's review of Kick Ass 2.

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[Plinglebob]

I really didn't like the first one. I really did try (saw it at the cinema and everything), but as someone who doesn't find gore, violence or swearing all that entertaining I think I'm just not its audience. I'll probably still rent this though as I thought Chloe Moretz's Hit Girl was entertaining and well played so should be worth a watch just for that.

 

[Trucken]

Sweeeeeet!

Been looking forward to this one and it makes me really happy to hear that it doesn't disappoint. I'll watch it as soon as I get a chance.

Also, Mother Russia seems to be one of the coolest badasses to hit the screens in a long time.

 

[Toilet]

Dave to old to be in high school is really going to bug me unless I can come up with a decent excuse for it, I wish it wasn't mentioned. Otherwise a decent review.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I doubt saying "************" 3 times over the course of a video qualifies for an age gate.
(I mean this is the same website that has Zero Punctuation and Jimquisition every week...)

Well, I'm glad to see that Kick Ass 2 is not shit. I would have gone to see it anyway, but at least now I'll feel better about it.

 

[Tombsite]

Really glad to hear that the movie does not follow the comic very well. Really didn't like the comic. To needlessly brutal and not fun in the slightest.

 

[Basement Cat]

I wasn't able to get through Kick Ass for some reason. Maybe I'll try it again. This looks like a rare sequel that's worth watching.

Not advertising your book at the end of your shows anymore, Bob? Yahtzee advertised his books for about two months each.

In fact I'm about to order Jam. Mmmmm...jam....

 

[manic_depressive13]

An age gate for a few uses of the word "************"? I get that it's a deviation from Bob's usual tendency to bleep swears, but that just seems unnecessary. Surely the disclaimer at the start of the video would have been perfectly adequate on its own. What I'm getting at is I had to press four buttons more than usual to access this video, and must now press many more buttons to convey my dissatisfaction.

 

[Scarim Coral]

It's the first time I've seen the age restriction appear on Bob videos.

Glad to know the sequel is just as good as the first which I may watched (depend what my bro want to watch, this or Elysium).

From what Bob describing it being different from the source, I'm getting a feeling the violence will be different (won't be gory in the comicbook which is really gory but it will still be violent).

 

[Xman490]

"A good movie to end summer with"? Well, summer's not ending anytime soon. (The individual weeks before January, April, July, and October are season transitions, technically.) Even if you consider "summer" as "summer break", even colleges like mine still have a couple of weeks left of summer break.

Could someone explain to me why Bob and other people in such industries consider seasons to happen earlier, including the "Christmas season" lasting throughout December and arguably dragging winter back with it?

 

[brazuca]

Cracked.com wrote an article about why superman does not work in the modern world. You MovieBob should read it (AngryJoe too). Basically the only way superman can survive and not become some anachronic character is to change. Times changes as people do. So does the conception of what a hero should behave. Also the movie was not that bad.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Why not like the first Kick-Ass?!

Because Hitgirl was a pathetically pandering non-entity of a character. The movie was great till she showed up and grabed the reigns. "Look, she's being violent, and says shock inducing words like 'cock' and '****'. Oh you... Little girls shouldn't be like that."

Her whole fucking gimmick left me cringing.

 

[Deacon Cole]

I find the bit about Millar having contempt for super heroes interesting because I have felt that for a while now from many angles, not just Millar. I think the absolute worst thing was the "I'm a geek" speech from the second Fantastic Four movie, which I'm told was in the actual Ultimates comic book. I could not believe they would do something that transparently pandering, but they did.

This kind of contempt for the audience is most rampant in the horror genre. If you like horror movies, then movies like Funny Games, Rubber, and Cabin in the Woods actively hate you and would like to feed you poisoned turkey just to make you stop watching. To the film makers who make such movies that basically voice a desire to do something else, I say, just stop making these awful, condescending, contemptuous movies. Go back to porn.

 

[Safaia]

The theater I'm going to see this at today is listed as Kick A 2 because the dude who owns the theater chain is a mormon and there is total separation between church and state in Utah.

 

[franksands]

The main point of the Kickass comics was to shit on the characters. The author puts them through all this horrible stuff because the series isn't about superheroes, it's about consequences. Dave becomes a superhero and loses everything as a result. You can say that it's ripping on all the people that want to be superheroes, and it should, because while wanting to be a superhero is pretty much natural, actually becoming one is stupid beyond reason. Saying that the comics aren't good because they're too bitter isn't good reasoning. They're supposed to be bitter because the entire point is that they're bringing reality into a fairly childish fantasy. The reason that the characters are all stupid is because one would have to be stupid (or suicidal, I suppose) in order to dress up and pick a fight with mobsters in the real world. Now obviously if every comic did that, it would suck, but one comic doing it? Where's the issue? If you want to say Kickass sucks, point out the reliance on shock value, or the schizophrenic tone, but saying "I don't like the comic because it's honest" is just... silly. I'm also not sure where these accusations of racism and misogyny come from. I've only read two works of Millar, but both of them featured strong female leads who put most of the men to shame, and I must be missing the racism part because I'm drawing a blank.

Anyway, good to see the film is alright. I can imagine that there are a few scenes that won't fit in, and that's fine. As long as it makes me want to see Kickass 3, it's doing an alright job.

I think I agree with Ultra. I've read the comics 1 & 2 and never felt hate towards superheroes. I felt it tries to answer the question made in the first comic: "why nobody tries to be a super-hero in the real world?" And it answer well in a over the top pulp kind of way.

 

[Rawbeard]

The first movie lost me when the love interest was ok with kick-ass lying to her and basically stalking her for the entire movie up to this point, unlike in the book, where she kicked the creep out. Mark Millar does not know how to end a story to save his life, but the "this fantasy bullshit does not work in real life, deal with it, but it's hilarious to watch those morons to fail and still accomplish more than they should" worked well in the comic book.

 

[Don Reba]

Man, that Mother Russia chick looks good. Sure hope she wins the show-down.