His alias? The Motherfucker.Īaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloë Grace Moretz as Kick-Ass and Hit Girl in Kick-Ass 2. Meanwhile D'Amico's orphaned son, Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), is acting out – he's splashing cash on recruiting a gang of supervillains to takedown Kick-Ass. Kick-Ass has hooked up with Justice Forever, an amateur heroics society led by reformed gangster Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). Hit Girl is taking time out to try being a normal teenager. It's four years since Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor Johnson) and Hit Girl defeated drug kingpin Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong). It's a have-a-go affair that tries out the same blend of red-blooded action and salty-blue humour, but serves mainly to bolster the bravery of the original. Kick-Ass 2 – handed to writer/director Jeff Wadlow by Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman – is significantly less confident and less brazen. Put bluntly, Hit Girl would have no problem squaring up to the Wolverine, the Man of Steel and the Avengers and calling them the c-word. The pomposity of the classic superhero story was given a beating. Honour and justice were bustled into the background. There was a starring role for a Chloë Grace Moretz's Hit Girl, an 11-year old assassin with a taste for blood and a knack for profanity. There was gore, there was death, there were swearwords. The action comedy – about a dorky teen who re-models himself as the titular crime-fighter – tackled the blockbusting phoniness of most comic book adaptations head on. With hindsight Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass was a rare treat: a graphically violent, hysterically rude superhero film.