Kick-Ass 2
Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 16, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
20
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 15, 2013
Kick-Ass 2, a movie that, for all its predictable sequel-ness, manages to conjure up pretty much the same dark magic that the earlier film did, albeit with more troubling results. Believe it or not, Kick-Ass 2 is even more of a provocation than the first Kick-Ass. Read full review
60
VarietyJustin ChangAug 14, 2013
As diverting as this action-packed caper often is, it feels not just weightless but emotionally and morally stunted whenever it veers into grown-up dramatic territory. Read full review
60
EmpireOwen WilliamsAug 12, 2013
A more modest success than the first "Kick-Ass," but still of-a-piece with its scurrilous predecessor. Nobody flies a jet-pack up a skyscraper this time, but Kick-Ass 2 still has its share of over-the-top action, and the sweary laughs are just about intact. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt RisleyAug 12, 2013
A fun if sporadically schizoid return to one of the brighter, brasher comic-bookers of recent years. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeAug 12, 2013
The best thing about ‘Kick-Ass’ was Moretz, and Hit-Girl still gets the best lines. Like the first film, Kick-Ass 2 pulls the reality of teen life into its fantasy. Read full review
56
Film.comWilliam GossAug 15, 2013
Faithful to the superficial thrills and flaws of the original. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 15, 2013
Moretz, who is 16 now, can't manufacture the same that's-so-wrong jolt she managed the first time around. Back then, it was hilariously taboo to see a little girl spout arias of profanity. Now, she's just another teenager swearing. Like the rest of the film, what was once shocking now just elicits a shrug. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 15, 2013
Like its own protagonists, Kick-Ass 2 can’t decide what it wants to be when it grows up: a vessel for unhinged vengeance and destruction or a meta-critique of those same impulses. In going for both, it winds up being neither. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 15, 2013
Kick-Ass 2 has a mean-spirited vigilante streak the first film lacked (it seemed more concerned with justice, in its way), as well as a fatigue. It’s still funny, particularly when Hit Girl spews profanity and wields weapons. It’s just not as good. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 15, 2013
A weird mix of the refreshing and the dispiriting, Kick-Ass 2 is appealing in its brutal honesty and repellent in its honest brutality. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 15, 2013
To stand out in a crowded marketplace, a sequel can’t just kick ass — it has to blow minds. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAug 15, 2013
What seemed edgy and brash in Kick-Ass is now routine and old-hat. The first movie was a brash satire on formulaic comic-book movies — exactly the sort of picture the sequel turns out to be. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Aug 14, 2013
Even with its edges sanded down, Kick-Ass 2 is unmistakably Millaresque — a juvenile comedy of excess, in which skewering adolescent power fantasies looks an awful lot like indulging in them. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAug 14, 2013
Kick-Ass 2 returns with the original’s rollicking sense of vulgarity and bodily trauma fully intact, but the story has more plot lines to string together than absolutely necessary. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenAug 14, 2013
Kick-Ass 2 is a lesser version of what it appears to be, an uncertain jumble rather than a true exploration of outrage, violence and identity. Read full review
50
The PlaylistGabe ToroAug 14, 2013
The crime isn’t that Kick-Ass 2 is vulgar (which it is), but that it’s for so little gain. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 14, 2013
That makes Kick Ass 2 more sour than sweet, a movie that jokes about comic book fanboys but stops short of mocking them the way the first film did. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 15, 2013
The meta-satire hits you over the head until not just your Spidey sense is tingling. Read full review
40
The DissolveTasha RobinsonAug 14, 2013
A messy, confused, over-the-top mixture of brutality and sick comedy, puckishness and ugliness, self-awareness and tone-deafness. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 13, 2013
Your ass is constantly braced in readiness and hope, but it remains un-kicked. Read full review
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