{"id":592,"date":"2013-09-05T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=592"},"modified":"2013-09-05T22:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:46:38","slug":"kick-ass-2-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/kick-ass-2-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-Ass 2: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not your average superhero movie. <a title=\"Kick-Ass 2 on SAMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/film\/1683\">Kick-Ass 2<\/a> follows the costumed high school hero, Kick-Ass, as he joins a group of fellow citizens who have joined forces to fight crime.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Taylor-Johnson returns to the title role as Kick-Ass (or his day time persona, Dave Lizewski), now mentored by action girl Mindy Macready, going by the superhero name of Hit Girl (played by Chloe Grace Moretz).<\/p>\n<p>Taylor-Johnson and Moretz deliver an engrossing, enjoyable performance as the lead characters, drawing the audience in to their world, leading to that moment when you realise you&#8217;re not watching a superhero movie, but a move about overcoming, a story about good triumphing over evil, and a story about applying yourself, and never giving up.<\/p>\n<p>The action sequences are thrilling, with a touch of humour as a young teen girl gets the better of a gang of thugs.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-Ass 2 is a fun, comedic and thrilling story, and the perfect choice for a night out.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-Ass 2 opens in South African cinemas 6 September 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not your average superhero movie. Kick-Ass 2 follows the costumed high school hero, Kick-Ass, as he joins a group of fellow citizens who have joined forces to fight crime. Aaron Taylor-Johnson returns to the title role as Kick-Ass (or his day time persona, Dave Lizewski), now mentored by action girl Mindy Macready, going by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/kick-ass-2-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kick-Ass 2: Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-review","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}