OK, OK, on second look, this should be even more fun and strange than the original. Granted, anyone going in not expecting this to be as violent as the first film will need to be whapped with a rolled up newspaper and told gently to LEAVE THE KIDS AT HOME. Remind me to tell you guys about the time I went to see Paul Verhoeven’s excellent and campy Starship Troopers on opening day, taking my seat and about five minutes or so into the film, an entire class trip’s worth of oh, about 8 or 9 year old kids comes in with teachers and chaperones. Yup, worst planning ever that year for those adults in charge who thought this was going to be Star Wars or something “light”. Fortunately, they got up and trooped right on out of the theater when the mixed barracks shower scene kicked in. That almost made me laugh more than the ending of the movie (which only I “got”, as no one else in the audience understood Verhoeven was basically making a modern day propaganda reel like something from World War II).

Er, anyway… so much for telling you that story later, huh? Kick-Ass 2 opens August 16, 2013.

In case you never saw the first film (or read the comic, for that matter)… drop everything NOW and do one of those two things. I’ll wait. (La la la, hmm hmm hmmmm… la la l..*ding!*) OK, got it? GOOD. Well, this isn’t quite more of the same hilarious ultra-violence, it’s just much MORE of it and a lot crazier. Which is a good thing, by the way. I’m still not convinced Jim Carrey is worth trotting out of the house over these days, but I can deal with him in something as nutty and violent as this flick, as it’s somewhat up his alley in terms of his older, wilder work. As always, we shall see… SO far, so good, though. Kick-Ass 2 should be in theaters August 16, 2013.