Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall

These stinkers found big audiences on streaming.

Although we've already seen a ton of footage and publicity materials for Jeff Wadlow's 'Kick-Ass 2,' Universal Studios brought the title out for its Comic-Con 2013 panel on Friday, July 20.

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It isn't due to arrive until August, but 'Kick-Ass 2' is already getting more promotion than most films currently in theaters. We've already got multiple trailers and posters, and now we can add this international one-sheet that unites most of the major players from the cast.

The latest trailer for 'Kick-Ass 2' makes the stakes pretty clear. After Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) killed Frank D'Amico in the first film, Frank's son Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) wants revenge, and to get it he's willing and ready to transform himself into a super villain.

If there's a lesson to be learned from 'Kick-Ass' (aside from how maybe it's a bad idea to pretend you're a superhero when you don't have any powers), it's this: don't mess with Hit-Girl unless you want to get your ass kicked.

The internet has shown that filmmakers can act directly with fans, and circumvent the official marketing machine. 'Kick-Ass 2' director Jeff Wadlow has shown how far you can go by uploading a clip from his upcoming movie. It offers Aaron Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz starting a fight with Christopher Mintz-Plasse and his gang.

The new 'Kick-Ass 2' trailer, coming at us from across the pond, is here with more new kick-ass footage of our title character, Hit-Girl and their buddies like Colonel Stars and Stripes. For these heroes, living out a normal life is just not in the hands they were dealt.

It will be interesting to see if any of these 'Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall' character posters get hung up in movie theaters. Character posters are all the rage (the last 'Twilight' film had about seven hundred), but it's hard to imagine a multiplex hanging up a poster that says "The Mother F---er" in their lobby. Check out his NSFW poster here and the rest below.

The 'Kick Ass 2' red band trailer feels like an experiment in excess. There's only one way to top the first film and that's to up the insanity and brutality in every way, throwing social consciousness and sanity to the wind and embracing the franchise's inherent trashiness...