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Super Duper Super Heroes

I'm gonna switch gears from my usual posts as of late and NOT talk about a scary movie this time! Instead we are going to talk about the majesty that is Kick-Ass 2! THIS WILL INCLUDE SPOILERS! GO SEE THIS MOVIE!! Ok so critics are not raving about this film. They say that it is a dumbed down red-headed step child compared to the first installment and who is to tell a professional film critic that they're wrong? I am, that's who. Sure, the first time we saw Kick-Ass on the silver screen, we were shocked and amazed by the brutality and gall and downright in-your-face rudeness of it. by that point, we had gotten the full spectrum of comic book movies from the silliness of the Tobey Macguire Spider-Man trilogy to the straight forward see of Watchmen. Kick-Ass kicked it up to a whole different level by tagging an R-rating onto a brightly colored superhero story. Granted, they wouldn't have been able to make that story any good without the rough language and gratuitous vi...