The following characters appeared in Kick-Ass 2.
Kick-Ass is a 2010 film based on the by and which was published. The film was directed by, who produced with and co-wrote the screenplay with. The film was produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the opening gala premiere at 2010. Its general release was on 25 March 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 16 April 2010 in the United States. It is the first installment of the Kick-Ass film series.It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, , who sets out to become a, calling himself 'Kick-Ass'. Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy , a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico and his son Red Mist , has trained his eleven-year-old daughter to be the ruthless vigilante.Despite having generated some controversy for its profanity and violence performed by a child, Kick-Ass was well received by both critics and audiences.
In 2011 it won the for. The film has gained a strong since its release on. A, written and directed by and produced by Vaughn, was released in August 2013, with Johnson, Mintz-Plasse, and Moretz reprising their roles. In 2018, Vaughn announced his intentions to open up Marv Studios and reboot the series.
Is an ordinary teenager who lives in. Inspired by comic books, Dave plans to become a. He purchases and modifies a scuba diving suit, and arms himself with. During his first outing, he gets stabbed and then. After recovering, he gains a capacity to endure pain and enhanced durability due to having some bones replaced with metal.In his absence from school, a rumor spreads that he is. As a result, his longtime crush, Katie Deauxma, immediately attempts to become his friend. Unhappy with the misunderstanding, Dave nevertheless appreciates the opportunity to get closer to Katie.Dave returns to crime-fighting and gains notoriety after saving a man from a gang attack.
Calling himself 'Kick-Ass', he sets up a account where he can be contacted for help. Responding to a request from Katie, he confronts a drug dealer, Rasul, who has been harassing her. At Rasul's place, Kick-Ass is quickly overwhelmed by Rasul's thugs. Before they can kill him, two costumed, and her father, Big Daddy, intervene, easily slaughter the thugs and leave with their money. After coming home, Dave realizes he is in over his head, and plans to give up crime-fighting.
However, Hit-Girl and Big Daddy pay him a visit and encourage him.Big Daddy's real identity is Damon Macready, formerly an honest cop. Framed by Mafia boss Frank D'Amico, he was jailed. His wife committed suicide, leaving behind his daughter Mindy. Against the protest of his former partner Marcus Williams, Damon trains himself and Mindy as preparation for getting revenge on Frank. They have been undermining Frank's operations by raiding his warehouses, robbing his money and destroying his drugs.Frank believes Kick-Ass is responsible for the attacks and targets him, impulsively killing a party entertainer who is dressed like Kick-Ass.
Frank's son, Chris, suggests a different approach. He poses as a new vigilante, 'Red Mist', and befriends Kick-Ass. He plans to lure Kick-Ass into Frank's lumber warehouse and unmask him.
However, they find the warehouse on fire and Frank's men dead. Red Mist retrieves a hidden camera he earlier placed in the warehouse, and sees recorded footage of Big Daddy killing the men and burning the warehouse. Red Mist and Kick-Ass part ways. D'Amico watches the footage and learns of Big Daddy and Hit-Girl.Following the event, Dave decides to quit being Kick-Ass. He reveals his identity to Katie, and clears up the misunderstanding about him being gay. She forgives him and becomes his girlfriend. However, Red Mist contacts him again, and tricks him into revealing Big Daddy and Hit-Girl's location.
At one of Big Daddy's safe houses, Red Mist shoots Hit-Girl out of a window, and Frank's men capture Big Daddy and Kick-Ass.Frank intends to have his thugs torture and execute his captives in a live Internet broadcast. While Kick-Ass and Big Daddy are being beaten by Frank's gangsters, Hit-Girl, having survived the shooting, storms the hideout and kills all of the gangsters. During the fight, one thug sets Big Daddy on fire. Big Daddy and Mindy say a tearful farewell before he dies of his burns.Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl resolve to defeat Frank D'Amico once and for all. Hit-Girl infiltrates Frank's headquarters and kills numerous guards and henchmen before running out of bullets.
When she is cornered by the thugs, Kick-Ass arrives on a fitted with and kills the remaining thugs. Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl then take on Frank and Red Mist. Kick-Ass fights Red Mist, which results in them knocking each other out. Frank overpowers an exhausted Hit-Girl. Before he can kill her, Kick-Ass regains consciousness and blasts Frank out of the window with a bazooka, killing him. Dave and Mindy retire from crime-fighting; Marcus becomes Mindy's guardian, and she enrolls at Dave's school.Meanwhile, Chris D'Amico sits in his father's office, dressed in an upgraded suit. Facing the camera, he says, 'as once said,' before firing a gun at the screen.Cast.
as. as Frank D'Amico. as Chris D'Amico / Red Mist. as.
as Damon Macready / Big Daddy. as Katie Deauxma. as Marty Eisenberg. as Todd Haynes. as Erika Cho. as Sergeant Marcus Williams.
Stu Riley as Huge Goon. as Big Joe. as Cody. as Lobby Goon. as Detective Gigante. Kofi Natei as Rasul. as Sporty Goon.
as Ginger Goon. Katrena Rochell as Female Junkie. Omar Soriano as Leroy. as Mr. Lizewski.
as Mrs. Lizewski. as Angie D'Amico.
as Mrs. Zane. as himselfSeries-creator Millar, a native of, asked Scottish television children's-show host to make a although his role was cut from the film. Millar was also set to make a cameo as a Scottish alcoholic but the scene was cut from the film. News reporters, and Lou Young make.An image of 's wife, model, appears prominently on a billboard poster. Appears without his face being shown: 'I was a barista.
They asked me to look at the camera, then turn and turn the television on with a remote control. And then they edited out my face! I laughed and laughed — I was the only authentic New Yorker in the scene and they edited out my face for not looking authentic enough!
Then the producer, Tarquin Pack. Changed my first name to Tony: Tony Romita. 'Why'd you do that?'
'Well, 'Johnny Romita' wasn't tough enough.' ' Production. DevelopmentThe rights to a film version of the first volume of the comic book series were sold before the first issue was published. Developed in parallel, the film writers took a different story direction, to reach many of the same conclusions. Acknowledges the differences, explaining that a comic usually has eight acts, while a film usually has a three-act structure.Vaughn said that, 'We wrote the script and the comic at the same time so it was a very sort of collaborative, organic process. I met Millar at the premiere of.
We got on really well. I knew who he was and what he had done but I didn't know him. He pitched me the idea. I said, 'That's great!'
He then wrote a synopsis. I went, 'That's great, let's go do it now! You write the comic, I'll write the script. ' one of the screenwriters, said that when she works with Vaughn she does the 'construction work' and the 'interior designing' while Vaughn acts as the 'architect.' With Kick-Ass, the book's just out and now the movie's out six weeks later.
And I think that's the way things are going to go now, because to go to 's characters and try to get movies out of them; what's the point of that?—Millar said that screenwriters Goldman and Vaughn had made a ', having placed more emphasis on the character emotions, and particularly in having softened the character of Katie Deauxma. Millar stated that a film audience would have difficulty accepting Dave and Katie not being together, while a comic audience would more easily accept that idea. Frank Lovece of said that Katie is 'much less ' in the film than in the comic, and that the romance between Dave and Katie 'proves a needed counterbalance to the otherwise pervasive sense of optimism being stripped away layer by layer, down below angry and headed straight down the hole to.' Kenneth Turan of the said 'the romance provides an appealing backdrop that the more unnerving aspects of the film play out against.' Other changes included having Red Mist be known to be a secret antagonist from the start, as well as making him less outright villainous, and D'Amico's mob initially thinking Kick-Ass is the one slaughtering their men.
Creator signing posters for the movie and copies of the comics sequel, Kick-Ass 2, during an appearance at in Manhattan.In the, Big Daddy is characterised not as an ex-cop, but as a former accountant who had been motivated to fight crime by a desire to escape from his life and by his love of comic books. In the film, his purported origin and motivations are genuine: writer Mark Millar stated that the revelation about Big Daddy's background would not have worked in the film adaptation, and 'would have ruined the movie.'
The comic's artist stated that Big Daddy's story in the film 'works better stopping short. You love him better in the film'.The climax to the film differs significantly from the comics, with the use of the jetpack and rocket launcher: Millar called this 'necessary' as 'we're building up so much stuff that we needed some blowing up the moment'. Comic writer Stephen Grant argued that the film 'cheated' on its premise of a 'real life' superhero by having these increasingly fantastic events and that this was 'why it works.
That's where much of the humor comes from. When the film finally makes the notion the fantasy explicit we're already so deep into the magician's act that our instinct is to play along'.Vaughn initially went to, which distributed, but he rejected calls to tone down the violence. Other studios expressed interest but wanted to make the characters older. In particular studios wanted to change Hit-Girl's character into an adult. Goldman said that while studio executives said that it would be less offensive to portray Hit-Girl as a teenager, Goldman argued that it would have been more offensive since, as a teenager, Hit-Girl would have been sexualized.
Goldman said that Hit-Girl was not supposed to be sexualized.Vaughn had a little trouble adapting to film: the film had no studio. The big studios doubted the success of an adaptation as a violent superhero, which made the film be independently financed, but this gave him the freedom to make the film the way he imagined, without having to worry about high-censorship. Vaughn believed enough in the project to raise the money himself. (Red Mist) said that the creators of the film were wondering whether a distributor would pick up the movie. On the set Vaughn jokingly referred to Kick-Ass as something that was going to be 'the most expensive home movie I ever made'.The 2D/3D animated comic book sequence in the film took almost two years to finish. Romita created the pencils, did the inks, and Dean White did the colours.
Vaughn gave Romita a on the art direction of the sequence. FilmingFilming locations included, Canada; Dip 'N' Sip Donuts on in, and 'many Toronto landmarks that play cameos'; and various locations in the United Kingdom, including.The opening sequence with Nicolas Cage was filmed in a sewage plant in east.The Atomic Comics store in the film is based on the now-defunct real-life Arizona-based chain whose owner, Millar said, is a friend of artist.Millar asked Mike Malve for permission to use Atomic Comics in the film, and a model version of Atomic Comics was created at the London pilot studio for use in the filming. In January 2010, an uncensored preview clip of the film was attacked by family advocacy groups for its display of violence and use of the line 'Okay, you, let's see what you can do now,' delivered by, who was 12 years old at the time of filming. Spokesman John Morrissey said that 'the language was offensive and the values inappropriate; without the saving grace of the bloodless victory of traditional superheroes'.Several critics, including of the, accused the film of glorifying violence, saying that Hit-Girl was 'made to look as seductive as possible'.
Tookey's view on Hit-Girl was strongly criticised, with many commentators — including, the film editor of — wondering why he had found the character sexualised. This caused Tookey to claim that he was a victim of cyber-bullying.In response to the controversy, Moretz stated in an interview, 'If I ever uttered one word that I said in Kick-Ass, I would be grounded for years! I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that. I'm an average, everyday girl.' Moretz has said that while filming, she could not bring herself to say the film's title out loud in interviews, instead calling it 'the film' in public and 'Kick-Butt' at home.expressed surprise that people were angry about the language but did not seem to be offended that Hit-Girl kills numerous people.
RatingsIn an interview with, Aaron Johnson confirmed that the film stays true to the adult nature of the comic series by featuring a large amount of profanity and graphic violence. The film received an R rating by the for 'strong brutal violence throughout, pervasive language, sexual content, nudity and some drug use—some involving children', and it received a 15 rating from the.Director Matthew Vaughn felt the 15 certificate was about right and expressed some surprise at the film having received a 'PG rating ' in France. Kick-Ass Blu-rays and DVDsIn an interview, Matthew Vaughn said, 'There is about 18 minutes of deleted footage, which is really good stuff. If the film is a hit, I'll do an extended cut.' The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 3 August 2010 in North America.This version does not contain the aforementioned deleted content.Selling 1.4 million units within its first week, one-third of these in Blu-ray format, Kick-Ass debuted at number one on the DVD sales chart.
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This game can kiss my ass, while I kick its ass, because it sucks ass and Kick-Ass is Slow-Ass!
Kick-Ass 2 is a beat' em up action game based on the movie of the same name. It was developed and published by Freedom Factory in 2014 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
Why It Sucks
- The game is based off the movie... but the movie was released a year before the game came out, 2013. By then, the movie, nor Kick-Ass overall was a relevant thing, so why make at this time?
- ABYSMAL VOICE ACTING! Kick-Ass sounds like a 30-year-old man from Mexico, while he is 19 in the films and comics. The other characters sound terrible also. In fact, the voice acting is so bad it makes RIDE TO HELL'S VOICE ACTING SOUND LIKE A ROCKSTAR GAME.
- Very slow combat. Kick-Ass attacks very slowly and so do other enemies. Everything feels like it's in slow motion. The game was clearly trying to mimic the Batman: Arkham games, but failed miserably.
- There is no type of progression or leveling up through out the game. There are only six combo moves, and you won't even be using them half the time since they serve no use.
- The enemies you fight make no sense. Why would Kick-Ass be beating up goths for no reason?
- Lots of bugs and glitches.
- The dialogue is really poorly written and has tons of edgy jokes.
- No creative level design, just generic city locations.
- The PC controls are so bad you absolutely need a gamepad to be able to play.
- All you do is mash buttons, mash buttons, and mash buttons. There is nothing else in this game! No exploration, no side quests, no unlockables, nothing!
- Huge framerate drops.
- No replay value at all.
- No Xbox One or PS4 versions despite being released in 2014, when those consoles were out in most countries by then. Only the PC version was a current gen release, but still!
Redeeming Quality
- The voice acting, dialogue, and jokes are so bad they can become really funny.
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