I absolutely loved the first Kick-Ass. It was action-packed, hilarious and thundered down its running time with an enjoyably frenetic pace. It introduced the fantastic and somewhat 'wrong in all the right ways' Hit Girl and it struck a perfect balance between the more comedic violence and the more serious stuff.
Kick-Ass 2 decided to throw that balance out of the window completely. This film suffers from such a severe crisis in tone, it is rather frustrating to behold. It finds humour in all the wrong places, resorting to cheap gags, not shying away from some bouts of 'incidental' racism.
What makes it so frustrating is that the idea behind it, the further development of Hit Girl, is actually a…