

They're printed on the screen in a comic-strip balloon. But the film-makers recoil from having her speak the truly obscene climactic lines after she kills off the red-leather bikini-clad villainess Mother Russia by stabbing her all over with shards of glass.

Hit Girl, the sensitive heroine, can apparently say anything: "Game's on, cocksuckers!" for instance. An especially dubious scene has Motherfucker suffer temporary impotence as he's about to initiate the gang rape of a high school avenger called Night Bitch. Chloë Grace Moretz's purple-haired Hit Girl is now 15, as violent and foul-mouthed as ever, and she's training a fellow high school pupil to take over as Kick-Ass and take on the demented Christopher Mintz-Plasse, the former Red Mist who's donned his late mother's bondage gear to become Motherfucker.Īs befits its source in a graphic novel, the violence is graphic as heads and arms are severed and dogs and sharks let loose on crotches. But I'm still here, just, and it's arrived with another tale of teenage New Yorkers in masks and elaborately designed leotards doing battle with monstrous villains. I thought that by the time there was a sequel to Kick-Ass, the distasteful 2010 ersatz British version of an American superhero movie, I'd be sitting in my slippers before the glowing embers of a wintry fire reading PG Wodehouse. Reading this on mobile? Click here to view video
