Pictured: the real star of this franchise, if we’re being honest.
It’s been a long time since we checked in on Universal’s Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall. We posted set photos of most of the cast last September as well as pictures of 15-year-old Chloë Moretz and 22-year-old Aaron Johnson kissing for some reason. We’ve been sitting on a pile of Kick-Ass 2 pictures since then waiting for a good excuse to post them, and the day has arrived. The first red band trailer just premiered a few minutes ago for the movie which opens August 16th, 2013.
Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall stars Aaron Johnson as Kick-Ass, Chloë Moretz as Hit-Girl, Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars, Lindy Booth as Night Bitch, Donald Faison as Doctor Gravity, Robert Emms as Insect Man, Clark Duke as Battle-Guy, Olga Kurkulina as Mother Russia, and Filmdrunk fan Christopher Mintz-Plasse as The Mother F*cker (formerly Red Mist).
The red band trailer starts out with a reference to this scene from the comics, and numerous other scenes directly from the comics make their transition to the screen in this trailer. Check it out below, and try not to get too distracted by whatever voice Jim Carrey is trying to do here.
[Sources: MTV, Coming Soon (1, 2), CBM (1, 2), and @JeffWadlow]
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So…much…fakey…CGI…but heck, I’ll see it anyway.
this looks pretty awesome. I’m officially excited for this movie now.
Only wish they had more Donald Faison and his turk dance in the trailer
Indeed.
Am I the only one getting a Bill the Butcher-vibe from Jim Carrey?
Actually, I liked Carrey here. Even if he’s blatantly filling in for Nicolas Cage and is probably getting his ass kicked accordingly.
Also, nice use of the Dredd soundtrack.
I definitely like what little of his performance I’ve seen in the trailer. His delivery of “Yeah, there’s a dog on your balls” is absolutely perfect.
Okay. Well. Huh. Not that they really kept with the whole “what would happen if real people tried to do this” schtick in the first movie but evidently they just threw the whole concept out the window to basically make a regular superhero movie only with homemade costumes. And I know Kick-Ass is still supposed to be in High School but that is clearly an adult. They should have just aged up the character to after he graduated and Hit-Girl is a senior or something. I feel like I’m nitpicking because I just told myself to shut up.
That said, it does look entertaining, I’ll go see it for sure.
It’s a movie trailer, guy. They haven’t thrown shit out the window. It’s still very much about real people being superheroes. Just way more than 2-3.
I think he meant in terms of what those people can do… Initially, KA was very regular, not much of a fighter, out of shape, etc. Also, Hit Girl is flipping around on the roof of a moving automobile. This movie is definitely loosening its grip on realism. I have no problem with that whatsoever thouhg.
Yeah I know. Which is why I told myself to shut up lol. It’s just that clearly Dave is not some wanna be nerd anymore. He’s more or less the real deal, which I think misses the point. But as you said it is just the trailer, and as I said I’ll go see it anyway. So I guess the point is moot.
Yeah Aaron, that’s pretty much my thoughts exactly.
Eh, was Kick Ass ever really that realistic though? Hit Girl taking out an entire penthouse filled with armed goombas, jet packs, rockets that send people flying like a 100 feet before they explode. Although, I do get what you mean about it maybe getting a little TOO ridiculous.
Yeah, yellowmenace, even that bothered me a little. But I chose to look at it in a “meta” twist type way. Big Daddy and Hit Girl ACTUALLY were the real deal. They had a traditional superhero origin and it was even presented in the style of a comic book. They were basically comic book characters come to life in the context of the movie. None of the other characters had that; it’s what mad BD and HG unique and out of left field. It flipped the movie’s concept on its head. It went from being about a nerd trying and failing to become a superhero into a movie where he actually was confronted by two of them. But Dave, Red Mist, and the others never belonged or came from that world throughout the whole ordeal. Sure, Kick Ass got that shiny jetpack at the end but even THAT was part of BD arsenal (i.e out of a comic book.) That was my reading of it anyway. Now it looks Dave has successfully transitioned many parts of his vigilante career and himself into a superhero’s which doesn’t fit. In my opinion anyway.
Different director AND different writers from the 1st film. Approach with caution.
Any comic book readers here? Kick-Ass 2 was even darker than the already dark Kick-Ass in terms of the comic books. If they continues in this series, we could definitely have a darker movie than this movie trailer leads us to believe. And I’m all for being pleasantly surprised.
Mark Millar epitomizes everything wrong with comics.
Take it from a guy who has a Mark Millar character named after him, Mark Millar undoubtedly epitomises everything wrong with comics. Kick-Ass 2 was an utter mess.
Let me third that: Mark Millar is the most overrated writer in comics.
Hmm. Okay, I was impressed by the first one, especially since I read the firt three issues of the comic and hated it. I’m told I didn’t stick with it long enough.
At least the Carey we’re getting isn’t Riddler-Carey, which is what I was expecting.
You really didn’t miss out on much. With the exception of Big Daddy’s origin story being arguably more interesting in the comics, I thought the movie was pretty much an improvement in every aspect.
I’m okay with crazy Jim Carrey voice.
I’m a little concerned with how much of a normal superhero movie this film looks. I loved the first Kickass because it seemed a little more ‘real’ than most superhero movies.
Not that it matters as I’ll go watch it anyway.
The second movie is taking liberties with the story just like the first film. The comics felt more grounded in reality(kind of) and the movies are much more over the top and campy.
Yeah, but unlike the comics the characters were likeable and sympathetic.
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Trailer is boss.Whoever dislikes the trailer is a retarted country hick who likes watching NASCAR.
I didn’t like the trailer. And I’m about as far from a country hick who likes NASCAR as you can get. Jim Carrey fucking shitting all over the Col. Stars n Stripes character, and going about as “dude-bro” as you can get with the “dog on your balls” joke (and then laughing at his own joke in such a retarded way that I wanted to fucking punch him in the teeth through the screen) does NOT bode well for this sticking anywhere NEAR to close to the source comic. As it stands, when Carrey’s character gets what comes to him, I will be laughing hysterically, instead of actually feeling BAD for the “supergroup” he was a part of.