Jim Carrey, die een vrij gewelddadig personage speelt in Kick-Ass 2, heeft nu flink wat kritiek op de film. Afgelopen december vermoordde een twintigjarige oud-leerling in de Sandy Hook basisschool in de VS achtentwintig kinderen en leerkrachten. Nu vindt Carrey dat hij, in het licht van die gebeurtenissen, de grote hoeveelheid geweld in Kick-Ass 2 niet meer kan steunen.
Hij plaatste zijn ongenoegen op Twitter:
Mark Millar, die ook aan de film verbonden was als uitvoerend producent, reageerde als volgt op het bericht van Carrey. In zijn ogen gaat de film over de gevolgen van geweld, dus gaat het niet om zinloos geweld.
"[I'm] baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay eighteen months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much... This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorcese [sic] and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-Wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence... Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can't be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie."
Hij plaatste zijn ongenoegen op Twitter:
I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e
-- Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
I meant to say my apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.
-- Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
Mark Millar, die ook aan de film verbonden was als uitvoerend producent, reageerde als volgt op het bericht van Carrey. In zijn ogen gaat de film over de gevolgen van geweld, dus gaat het niet om zinloos geweld.
"[I'm] baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay eighteen months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much... This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorcese [sic] and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-Wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence... Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can't be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie."
