Kick-Ass 2
Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 16, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
20
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 15, 2013
Kick-Ass 2 is an uninspired retread. All too often it plays like a Comic-Con gone insane, with costumed do-gooders taking on costumed criminals in gratuitously vicious battles. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 15, 2013
Kick-Ass is a prime example of a movie that never should have bothered with a sequel. Not only is its successor played-out, but it revels in carnage while lacking the visual style and gleeful humor of the original. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 15, 2013
In the annals of sequeldom, Kick-Ass 2 has to be one of the lamest follow-ups ever. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 15, 2013
It's no better, no worse and essentially no different from the jocular, clodhopping brutality of the first one. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 15, 2013
Kick-Ass 2 is a special kind of crap: the kind smart people make for audiences they think are stupid. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianStephen WhittyAug 15, 2013
If it works at all, fitfully, it's because of the precociously talented and in-control Moretz, who carries the film on her own small shoulders. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChris CabinAug 14, 2013
The film doubles down on the love-hate relationship with ultra-violence that typified its predecessor, but A History of Violence this is not. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Adam NaymanAug 15, 2013
Arriving at the tail end of blockbuster season, this cheaply produced sequel to the surprise 2011 hit arrives in plenty of time to claim the title of the year’s most unpleasant movie. Read full review
10
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 15, 2013
The writer and director, Jeff Wadlow, can’t obscure the movie’s misogyny, and he also has a tough time staging a scene and selling a joke. His worst offense is that he has no understanding of the power, gravity and terrible beauty of violent imagery, which means he has no grasp of cinema. Read full review
0
RogerEbert.comAli ArikanAug 16, 2013
One of the year's worst films. Read full review
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