Hit Girl

Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl are back. The teenager-turned-masked-crusader and his foul-mouthed young friend return to the big screen in “Kick-Ass 2″ this August. And if the new red-band trailer for the film is any indication, the sequel is going to have just as much over-the-top violence as the first film. “Kick-Ass” raised eyebrows when it was released in 2010 for what some critics said was gratuitous violence, and for the steady stream of profanities uttered by  Chloë Grace Moretz, who played the 12-year-old murderous vigilante Hit-Girl. “’Kick-Ass’ is the movie our parents warned us about, the movie you don’t want your children to see,” wrote Times film critic Kenneth Turan. “A highly seductive enterprise that’s equal parts disturbing and enticing, it will leave you speechless because its characters — especially a 12-year-old virtuoso of violence named Hit-Girl — are anything but. The sequel to […]