Kick-Ass 2 (film)

Kick-Ass 2
Four faces, against a black background, white diagonal lines dividing them. An older man with rough stubble on his chin, in a blue mask; a girl with purple hair wearing a purple mask; a man in a green and yellow mask; a man in a black mask.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJeff Wadlow
Screenplay byJeff Wadlow
Based on
Hit Girl and Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall[a]
by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTim Maurice Jones
Edited byEddie Hamilton
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 14 August 2013 (2013-08-14) (United Kingdom)
  • 16 August 2013 (2013-08-16) (United States)
  • 24 February 2014 (2014-02-24) (Japan)
Running time
103 minutes[3]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Japan[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$28 million[4][2]
Box office$60.8 million[2]

Kick-Ass 2 is a 2013 black comedy superhero film written and directed by Jeff Wadlow, based on the Marvel Comics graphic novels Book Two and Book Three of Kick-Ass – The Dave Lizewski Years[b] by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and serving as a sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass. It is the second film in the Kick-Ass franchise, and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Jim Carrey, with the former trio reprising their roles from the first film. The film follows Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass (Taylor-Johnson), who joins a vigilante team called "Justice Forever", while Mindy Macready / Hit Girl (Moretz) attempts to live a normal life, and Chris D'Amico (Mintz-Plasse) taking up the mantle of The Motherfucker and forming a supervillain team to take revenge on Kick-Ass.

Kick-Ass 2 was released on 14 August 2013 in the United Kingdom, 16 August in the United States, and 24 February 2014 in Japan by Universal Pictures for the former two, and Toho-Towa for the latter. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film earned $60.8 million on a $30 million budget. In January 2024, Matthew Vaughn revealed that a third Kick-Ass film, titled Stuntnuts Does School Fight, directed by Damien Walters, had secretly been greenlit, cast, and had completed filming, set to release later that year.[5]


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  1. ^ a b "Kick-Ass 2 (2013)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Kick-Ass 2 (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  3. ^ "KICK-ASS 2 (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  4. ^ Godfrey, Alex (8 August 2013). "Kick-Ass 2: Mark Millar's superhero powers". The Guardian.
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