Having lost her beloved father, Big Daddy (played in the previous film by Nicolas Cage), Hit-Girl - known in the civilian world as Mindy Macready - is now a high school freshman, living with her guardian, Marcus (Morris Chestnut), and regularly skipping school to save the world. Hit-Girl returns in “ Kick-Ass 2,” still with the face of an angel, the mouth of a stevedore and the pugilistic chops of a skilled Mixed Martial Arts fighter. In 2010’s “ Kick-Ass,” those contradictions slammed together with giddily subversive brio, thanks in large part to a fearless performance by Chloe Grace Moretz, whose character, Hit-Girl - a purple-haired dervish decked out in motorcycle leathers, a short plaid skirt and a mean pair of nunchucks - became an instant avatar for third (or is it fourth?) wave feminism and middle school girls’ empowerment.
The franchise, based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., occupies a specific, narrowly focused sliver of the pop-culture universe, straddling graphic violence and playful innocence, cynicism and sweetness, paint-peeling vulgarity and winsome charm. How do you solve a problem like “Kick-Ass”?
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