Film : Kick Ass 2
Kick-Ass 2 is a 2013 British-American superhero action-comedy film based on the comic book of the same name and Hit-Girl, both by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and is the sequel to the 2010 film Kick-Ass, as well as the second installment of the Kick-Ass film series. The film was written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and co-produced by Matthew Vaughn, who directed the first film.
PLOT
Three to four years after the events of the first film, In New York City, Dave Lizewski is retired from fighting crime, since his actions have inspired ordinary citizens to become real-life superheroes. Normal life does not suit him, however, and he begins training to become a proper hero with Mindy Macready, who is now a close friend. Elsewhere, Chris D'Amico accidentally kills his mother with a tanning bed while arguing over her apathy towards his father's death. Now having full control over his family's money, Chris re-invents himself as a super villain known as "The Motherfucker", and swears to get revenge on Kick-Ass.
After their first 'field test,' Mindy's guardian, Marcus, discovers she is still fighting crime, and makes her promise to give it up. Her subsequent argument with Dave leads to his girlfriend, Katie Deauxma, who has noticed his strange behaviour and absence, to break up with him, believing he is cheating on her with Mindy. Now alone, Kick-Ass joins a team of heroes called "Justice Forever," led by Colonel Stars and Stripes, which includes Battle Guy (who turns out to be Dave's friend, Marty), Dr Gravity, Insect Man, Night-Bitch, and the parents of a missing child named Tommy. The team start out small, by working at soup kitchens and patrolling the streets, before taking on the larger task of shutting down an illegal brothel. Kick-Ass soon begins a sexual relationship with Night Bitch, and he and Marty try to get their friend Todd involved, but end up alienating him when they accuse his chosen identity (Ass Kicker) of being a rip-off of Kick-Ass.
Meanwhile, Mindy tries to lead a normal life, and Marcus arranges for her to go to a slumber party with the popular girls in her class, led by Brooke. Brooke suggests Mindy try out for the dance team at school, but when Mindy wows the audience with her audition, Brooke senses that she might be a threat to her status as the "queen bee." Dave, wanting to work with Hit Girl again, tries to convince her to join Justice Forever, but she refuses, and promptly asks a boy to take her out on a date. The date, however, ends up as a cruel prank when the boy, Brooke, and Brooke's friends abandon Mindy in the forest for her to walk home alone. Desperately upset, and with no other friends, she goes to Dave and tearfully tells him what happened. Dave consoles her, and encourages her to beat the mean girls at their own game. The next day Mindy takes on the girls, first with verbal put-downs, then using a crowd control shock baton to induce immediate violent vomiting and diarrhea. Mindy is suspended from school and Marcus is disappointed.
The Motherfucker uses his wealth to assemble a gang of supervillains, and establishes an underground lair, complete with a shark tank. He tracks down Colonel Stars and Stripes and has Mother Russia, a massive Russian ex-con and former KGB agent, decapitate him, before taunting Justice Forever on Twitter. He then tracks down Night-Bitch and attempts to rape her, though this fails when he is unable to achieve an erection. When the police are called to the scene, Mother Russia kills all ten arriving police officers, resulting in a police clampdown citywide on all costumed villains and vigilantes. When the police track down Dave's IP address, Dave's father tries to protect him by taking responsibility for being Kick-Ass.
The Motherfucker is not convinced that the real Kick-Ass has been caught, and learns from Todd (who had joined him, thinking he was another group of superheroes) that the man arrested for being Kick-Ass is actually Dave's father. He has Mr. Lizewski killed in jail and sends a photograph to Dave, revealing his true identity as Chris D'Amico. Grief-stricken, Dave vows to never put on the Kick-Ass costume again as per his final promise to his father. The other members of Justice Forever attend the funeral in sympathy for Dave, but the funeral is ambushed by the Motherfucker's gang and Dave is kidnapped.
Mindy pursues the van, killing all its occupants and rescuing Dave, and convinces him to confront the Motherfucker. The two reassemble Justice Forever and attack the Motherfucker at his lair, where an all-out brawl ensues. While Kick-Ass fights the Motherfucker, Hit-Girl struggles against Mother Russia, who soon overpowers her. Hit-Girl pulls out a syringe she had referred to previously as a "last resort," and Mother Russia, thinking it is poison, wrestles it from Hit Girl and injects her with it. However, the syringe actually contained adrenaline, which rejuvenates Hit-Girl and gives her the strength to kill Mother Russia with shards of glass. Fighting on the rooftop, the Motherfucker falls through a skylight, but Kick-Ass grabs his arm. The Motherfucker refuses help and falls, but lands in the shark tank. He survives the fall, but is mauled by the shark. Justice Forever disband and its members turn in their masks for good.
Mindy takes Dave home on her motorcycle, and tells him that she is leaving New York, to protect Marcus from a police inquiry, as she is wanted for multiple counts of murder. She tells him he is now the superhero the city needs, and the two share a brief kiss before she departs. Dave accepts the responsibility and begins training and upgrading his equipment.
In a post-credits scene, the Motherfucker is revealed to have survived as he screams from a hospital bed for water. He shouts that his legs and genitalia were bitten off and is barely able to move.
CAST
Aaron Taylor-Johnson as David Lizewski / Kick-Ass
Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris D'Amico / The Motherfucker
Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy Macready / Hit-Girl
Jim Carrey as Sal Bertolinni / Colonel Stars and Stripes
Clark Duke as Marty / Battle Guy
Olga Kurkulina as Katryna Dubrovsky / Mother Russia
Lindy Booth as Miranda Swedlow / Night-Bitch
John Leguizamo as Javier
Morris Chestnut as Detective Marcus
Williams
Garrett M. Brown as Mr. Lizewski
Claudia Lee as Brooke
Augustus Prew as Todd Haynes / Ass-Kicker
Donald Faison as Doctor Gravity
Daniel Kaluuya as Black Death
Tom Wu as Genghis Carnage
Andy Nyman as The Tumor
Robert Emms as Insect Man
Steven Mackintosh as Tommy's father / Remembering Tommy
Monica Dolan as Tommy's mother / Remembering Tommy
Benedict Wong as Mr. Kim
Iain Glen as Uncle Ralph D'Amico
Todd Boyce as Chief of Police
Yancy Butler as Angie D'Amico
Lyndsy Fonseca as Katie Deauxma
