With no one left to turn to, Dave joins forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes. Unfortunately, when Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, she's forced to retire-leaving her to navigate the terrifying world of high-school mean girls on her own. With graduation looming and uncertain what to do, Dave decides to start the world's first superhero team with Mindy. When we last saw junior assassin Hit Girl and young vigilante Kick-Ass, they were trying to live as normal teenagers Mindy and Dave. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)-reborn as The Mother F%&*^r-only the blade-wielding Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) can prevent their annihilation. After Kick-Ass' (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), our hero joins them on patrol. ‘Millard Fillmore High School’, where a buxom English teacher distracts the hormonal Dave from the complexities of Hamlet, is Sir William Churchill Secondary School, 1715 Main Street East, a couple of miles southeast.Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and Red Mist return for the follow-up to 2010's irreverent global hit: Kick-Ass 2. Much of the location filming is around the city of Hamilton, Ontario, on the western tip of Lake Ontario, where Dave Lizewski’s modest home is 32 Keith Street at Douglas Avenue, in the northern working-class neighbourhood of Keith. It's on the riverside terrace in front of County Hall that Alfred Hitchcock makes a cameo appearance in his 1973 film Frenzy. That’s also County Hall’s art deco interior which you may previously have seen standing in for ‘CIA HQ, Langley’ in Brian De Palma’s Mission Impossible. Opened in 1922 as the headquarters of London County Council, and subsequently home to the GLC, the building now houses the Sea Life London Aquarium, hotels, restaurants and other attractions. It’s the Belvedere Road entrance to the old County Hall on the South Bank. Kick Ass location: the entrance to D’Amico’s high rise apartment: County Hall, Belvedere Road, Londonīefore we leave London, the entrance to the hi-rise apartment of Frank D’Amico ( Mark Strong) isn’t quite what it seems. Not just a bowling alley, but American restaurant and cocktail bar, it's since closed down (though there are other branches in London), it was part of Whiteleys Shopping Centre, the department store-turned-mega-mall – seen in Closer, Love Actually and Connecting Rooms. No longer accessible is All Star Lanes, where Macready Senior takes Mindy for a treat afterwards. It’s, perhaps happily, not accessible to the public. Part of Joseph Bazalgette's grandiose Victorian scheme of sewage disposal for the capital, this is the largest sewage works in Europe.
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It’s one of the (currently empty) open-air tanks of Beckton Sewage Works, Beckton in East London (if you remember, Beckton gas works became ‘Vietnam’ for Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket).
The dank concrete space in which Damon Macready, aka Big Daddy ( Nicolas Cage), shoots his daughter, Mindy aka Hit Girl ( Chloë Grace Moretz) – to get her used to a bullet proof vest – is just what it looks like. Let’s get the disappointment out of the way first – you can’t pick up a graphic version of Kick-Ass from ‘Atomic Comics’, the comic store-coffee house where Dave and his friends mull over the disadvantages of being a superhero, as this was no more than a set constructed on the backlot of Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, in the UK.
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Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's comic book series is set in ‘New York’ but the locations for the film adaptation are shared between London and Toronto – and Hamilton, about 35 miles west of the city.ĭespite the ‘Manhattan’ skyline, the high-rise, from which the unfortunately delusional Armenian guy leaps during the opening narration, is Royal Bank Plaza, 200 Bay Street at Front Street West in the heart of Toronto’s Financial District. Ordinary schoolkid Dave Lizewski ( Aaron Taylor-Johnson) puts on a green wetsuit and with little more than an effort of will – and an internet presence – transforms himself into masked vigilante Kick-Ass.
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