“You just earned a seat at the head table and we already got the tuxes.”
Harry and Lloyd are coming back to make our lives better. Here are the teaser posters for Dumb and Dumber To that sees Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels re-team with the Farrelly brothers twenty years after all of us were taught what happens when you breed a bulldog and a shih tzu.
Dumb and Dumber To releases on November 14th.
Kick-Ass 2 is only a few months away from release and now its biggest star is speaking out against the amount of violence in the movie.
Jim Carrey, who plays Col. Stars and Stripes, posted a tweet that shows that he has had a change of heart since filming the sequel to the 2010 film.
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
He followed it up with this:
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
Now no one can really blame Carrey if he feels this strongly, but there is always the thought that could be simply a PR move to distance himself from any possible backlash when the movie is released.
In response, Mark Millar, creator and writer of the Kick-Ass comics, took to his blog to write a response to Carrey’s back down.
“As you may know, Jim is a passionate advocate of gun-control and I respect both his politics and his opinion, but 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. My books are very hardcore, but the movies are adapted for a more mainstream audience and if you loved the tone of the first picture you’re going to eat this up with a big, giant spoon. Like Jim, I’m horrified by real-life violence (even though I’m Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn’t a documentary. No actors were harmed in the making of this production! This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorcese 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, whether it’s the ramifications for friends and family or, as we saw in the first movie, Kick-Ass spending six months in hospital after his first street altercation. Ironically, Jim’s character in Kick-Ass 2 is a Born-Again Christian and the big deal we made of the fact that he refuses to fire a gun is something he told us attracted him to the role in the first place. Ultimately, this is his decision, but I’ve never quite bought the notion that violence in fiction leads to violence in real-life any more than Harry Potter casting a spell creates more Boy Wizards in real-life. … Jim, I love ya and I hope you reconsider for all the above points. You’re amazing in this insanely fun picture and I’m very proud of what Jeff, Matthew and all the team have done here.”
What do you think? Does this feel like a heartfelt move or a bit of damage control?
http://youtu.be/7gIBSbchF3Y
I may complain about a whole lot of things, but when we live in a world that can actually give us Kick Ass 2 it can’t be all bad right? Except for the rampant murder, poverty and basic denial of human rights in places. Still…..It’s Kick Ass 2!!!
Dave Lizewski and Mindy Macready’s exploits as Kick Ass and Hit Girl have spurred citizens to take up costumes of their own and fight crime including Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes. But all is not well when the Red Mist morphs himself into The Motherfu**er and plans to take down all the heroes.
In case you didn’t read the title too well, a reminder that the trailer is a red band, so there is blood and a lot of words that will make your mother blush unless you had the kind of mother that smoked cigarettes and said stuff like that to you all the time. Was she a stripper? Did she love you enough when you were a child?
Kick Ass 2 releases in August.
Here is the first trailer for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. The comedy stars Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey. Carell plays Burt Wonderstone who begins to be upstaged by a new magician played by Carrey. The flick looks like it could be chuckle worthy PG-13 fare and at least Carrey is doing slapstick again. Gotta take it where we can get it.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone releases on March 15, 2013.