It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Blistering performances.

This film picks up a few years later. Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson )joins a Justice League of misfit crime fighters. Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) has promised to stop crime fighting as she stuffs dollar bills into the swear jar. Our bad guy (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) has taken on a name not worth repeating. He has started his own league of criminals.The film is let down. Kick-Ass has taken on the looks and persona of Harold Ramis. The film is filled with awkward swearing, i.e. lines read by people who don't know how to swear. The Justice League of misfits should have been a solid spoof, but instead was written rather lame.The film had potential. It opened with a re-do of my favorite scene from the first film, but since I have seen that film, the element of surprise was missing, making the scene a bust. Hit Girl as Mindy suffers from teen angst as she fails to fit in with the kids in high school.The plot was bad, characters were shallow, and the humor was a yawn. Yet there are aspects of enjoyment to be found in the film.This is aimed at the young adult audience who have to lie about their age to see it.Parental Guide: F-bombs, nudity.

I remember when this movie came out, I loved it so much. I like these movies because there's no way things would go well for anyone who decided to just become a superhero. These movies are violent, brutal and emotionally so rough. But now that I've seen this movie too many times, I notice how tacky the screen writing is. Especially during those scenes where Mindy clashes with the popular high school girls. Girls can be mean, but you wouldn't know that listening to these girls talk. Still fight scenes are fun, character designs are amazing, and there's something in Kick-Ass movies that just couldn't be done in typical DC or Marvel movies, some kind of irony that could never work in Avengers. Of course Deadpool comes close, but Deadpool's not a typical Marvel movie, is it?

The most heroic aspect of this movie is the heroic effort it took to sit through the whole thing.Kick Ass was half a good movie. It started strong, then petered out at the half way point. But even the bad second half of that movie was better than any part of this sequel.The movie tries hard to be funny, but it isn't funny.A promise to a father's friend takes precedence over a promise to a father. What? Hit Girl breaks the promise to her father, to keep fighting crime, to make a promise to generic cop father's friend guy. At least she goes back to keeping the promise to Big Daddy.The movie set up a conflict between mf'er and his uncle, but it never paid off on that conflict.The movie set something up with Kick Ass' upgraded costume, but never paid off on that. Kick Ass can barely hold his own in a fight with Chris, MF'er, shown to be a complete wimp throughout the movie.I used super speed for this one - often fast forwarding through parts of it so I could get to the end faster.I thought the end fight was going to be good. But it wasn't.

***spoilers*** I think that Kick-Ass 2 fell victim of the classic sequel syndrome that plagues the movie industry these days. In sequels they look to mix things up but still keep the fire from the first movie alive.In Kick-Ass 2 they had definitely kept the humorous and kick ass fighting scenes that made me love the first movie but after hit girl tries to fit in with the mean girls at high school, wets her pants over some one direction knock off, then goes on a date with some random jock that just met her just to dump her in the woods, and her only way of revenge hit girl the most bad ass superhero in the whole franchise gets revenge by dressing up all pretty pretty and makes them all vomit milk and spew pudding out their asses with her "sick stick".I'm just all sorts of disappointed from this sequels simply because they made half the movie about hit girl trying to quit doing what she does best. I did think there were some other draw backs to this sequel but they could have been completely disregarded if they could have just let hit girl be hit girl or at least just made her a small part of the movie because I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and I do think it is worth watching just don't go into this movie expecting too much out of it.