No actors were harmed in the making of this production! This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorcese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-Wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence, whether it's the ramifications for friends and family or, as we saw in the first movie, Kick-Ass spending six months in hospital after his first street altercation. Like Jim, I'm horrified by real-life violence (even though I'm Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn't a documentary. My books are very hardcore, but the movies are adapted for a more mainstream audience and if you loved the tone of the first picture you're going to eat this up with a big, giant spoon.
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A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. Here's an excerpt: "As you may know, Jim is a passionate advocate of gun-control and I respect both his politics and his opinion, but I'm baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay eighteen months ago. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart." UPDATE: Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar has posted a blog response to Carrey's declaration. He added, "(My) apologies to others involve with the film. "I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence," tweeted Carrey. (PLEASE SEE AN UPDATE FROM MARK MILLAR BELOW.) Actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter on Sunday to denounce the violence of his upcoming movie Kick-Ass 2, wherein he plays the costumed vigilante Colonel Stars and Stripes.