I didn’t think Kick-Ass really needed a sequel, but it turns out I enjoyed seeing Kick Ass and Hit Girl again. The first movie was a dirty romp of a comic book movie that ran it’s story in a complete beginning to end arc. K-A2 brings us back to the life of Dave Lizewski who hung up his spandex suit after blowing up Red Mist’s father in the first movie. With his crazy idea of being a super hero put to rest, he goes back to being a high school kid, but soon finds himself bored of the mundane. He approaches Mindy Macready again who has yet to put her knives and nunchakus away as Hit Girl. She trains him again to hit the streets as Kick Ass and after a change of heart, she hangs up her cape and Kick Ass goes off to join a like minded vigilante super hero group. This stokes the fires of Red Mist again who is bent on revenge for his father. Donning a new name moniker, he makes his own super villain group to destroy Kick Ass and the city.

A lot of what made the first movie stand out is back, the cursing, the laughs and the violence and the moral fiber of what it means to be a real hero. The main cast is all back with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. CMP really goes for it, pushing Chris D’Amico as far into insanity as he can go. If Lex Luthor was a stupid kid with uncontrollable rage, he’d be Chris D’Amico.

While I liked seeing these guys again, I was left a bit ambivalent in the end. While not a bad movie, it didn’t do anything too great either. The characters are the best part, some good action scenes (the green screen work is rough), but it’s an easy movie to skip. I think I missed director Matthew Vaughn from the first movie the most as he had a much more interesting and kinetic eye for the material than Jeff Wadlow. Too been there, done that.