No, wait, I mean Hit Girl herself, Chloe Moretz!

Join us as we obsess a little over CGI poop, daddy issues, and the thematic nature of storytelling.

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Kick-Ass is a favoured movie around here in Doom Towers. It’s a wonderful mix of bloody violence, humour, and superhero mythology. Despite all the cast and crew having previous work, it seemingly brought them all to the attention of the world, particularly Chloe Grace Moretz and director Matthew Vaughan who have both been busy little bees since.

The production of Kick-Ass 2 the movie started long before Kick-Ass 2 the comic was finished. Although, considering we weren’t that crazy about the comic version of the original in comparison (you can hear us discuss it at length here), this may be a good thing.

The following trailer is a red-band trailer which means it’s not safe for work or the younglings. Only watch it at your own risk. But, you know, cursing is cool so…

– …Game On, Cocksuckers

First things first, the obvious thing that we can’t get away from. Hit-Girl isn’t 13 anymore. There is a difference in size that you just can’t avoid.

So we’ll probably get a lot of “growing pains” sort of stuff with her in this outing. Not a bad thing, just an observation.

– Second obvious statement

Jim Carrey has the ability to steal this movie. From the couple seconds we see of him, we can already assume he’s going to get all the attention.

When Carrey acts in a film, he’s very watchable but when he actually ACTS in a film… man, it’s game over.

– Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

The “I need to hang up my tights” storyline is as old as the “I need to wear some tights” storyline so it’s no big surprise we’re getting some of that again here.

What I did find interesting is that the black armour we keep seeing Kick-Ass wearing? Yup, it’s Big Daddy’s armour. Wearing a dead father’s clothes is no small thing so there should be some interesting stuff between Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass revolving around this.

– Mother McLover

I wasn’t convinced by Mintz-Plasse the first time round…

… and I really don’t know how I’ll feel about him now. But, I do feel if you’re going to have the name Mother Fucker, you must at least earn that title.

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Overall: I’m excited. Moretz is starting to confirm herself has a bankable actress even at such a young age and despite the change of director on the project it looks like we’re in for more of the same madness.
But seriously, watch out for Carrey.

Hello and welcome back to DOOM!’s exploration of the Superhero film genre hosted by Aaron Poole and JJ Hawkins. This month we look at Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass. We discuss why good films are a bit harder to comment on then bad ones, why this film really should have been called Hit Girl, why the movie is better than the comic, and get a little insight on our host’s taste in women. All this plus you get to watch the movie with us, so how cool is that?!

It turns out, there is another drinking game this month, whenever Aaron gets defensive about Twitter, take a drink. Sheesh, we didn’t aim for it to happen this way, it just did. Maybe next month will be different? Who knows.

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When it was announced that 20th Century Fox were doing another X-Men film, I was saddened to say the least. Personally, I would like all of Marvel’s characters to revert to their full control. But, understandably, Fox didn’t want to give up on their cash cow. Even after the monstrosities that were X-Men 3 and the solo Wolverine film, Universal still understand that there is a demand to see these characters in action. But how do you keep making X-Men films without the connection to the critical flops?

Their answer is a dubious one. Prequel. Can anyone name a prequel that has been good? Scorpion King? Star Wars? Dumb And Dumberer? It just never works for several legitimate reasons.

Firstly, your connection to the original characters is a major stumbling block. When an actor (and usually a new production team) have to recreate someone else’s portrayal of a character and story it’s incredibly difficult to live up to that endearment. It can either come off as a lame imitation or just completely miss the mark. This is incredibly tough to break through when the original films were within the last ten years and everyone remembers them clearly.

Secondly, where do you go? We’ve usually already seen the origins of these characters, we’ve already found out what makes them tick. What are you going to offer story-wise that’s new? Where do you go from here that doesn’t completely remove what we already know to be true?

But, to give this films some hope, they have assembled a great cast of actors and Matthew Vaughan bought a lot of geek credit after doing such a good job with Kick-Ass. So can he make magic again?

Well, the first footage has been released and we can finally see what is in store.

So here are the things that grabbed my attention both positive and negative.

– “You’re Out Of Touch, I’m Out Of Time”

I can understand their need to tie this to the first films with the “Before he was…” stuff but it’s really cheesy. However, whether JFK’s speech is an important part of the film or not, I thought it was great to include it in the trailer here because not only does it set the timeline of the film but also it continues the “constant fear of the unknown” kind of thread that runs through pretty much every X-Men story ever.

– I Have The Mutant Ability Of Low Self-Esteem

Chris Rock once said that the first priority of every father is to keep their daughter off the stripper pole. And in that regard I believe the first priority of Charles Xavier is to keep the mutants out of the brothels. I don’t know the context of the image below, but from this trailer I get the impression that Pixie is about to be spit roasted by Magneto and Professor X.

Prove me wrong guys, prove me wrong.

– Beast

I really like Hank McCoy in the comics. He really is a fascinating character. Incredibly intelligent but trapped in a monster’s body. This body makes him able to help people physically in a way he couldn’t have before but it’s a constant reminder of his failures etc. I also like that he’s being played by Nicholas Holt too. Despite him being a weird physical casting, he’s a good actor and I’m glad to see him get a role in a big film like this. I’m fascinated to see just how big of a role he will be getting though. They’re introducing a lot of characters in this, and from the trailer I get the impression that James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are going to be taking up a lot of screen time themselves, so it will be interesting to see how much of Beast’s origin we’ll be getting.

– Not Nightcrawler

“So, guys, I want to use Nightcrawler in this film but I understand that we can’t really use him because this is set in the 60s and they don’t meet him until the present day so I figure I can use Azazel. He’s his dad in the comics and he is pretty much exactly the same character. We can probably even get him and Mystique to have some nookie for all those horny teenagers to watch. Yeah, you can see Nightcrawler being concieved and get someone going *BAMF* all over the place. The best of both worlds!”

Yup, it’s happening.

– “We need a money shot”

… yeah, that works. You have my attention.

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I have to admit, I was against this film from the start. I thought the premise was bad, the characters were such a miss match and scatter shot assortment. Nothing made me want to see this film. I don’t think the trailers has changed that much but it has made me interested in a few different things, so I guess that’s a job well done if they have even gotten my attention, considering.

What about you? Feel free to leave comments on what you make of the trailer. Am I being too harsh? Too forgiving? Let us know!