KICK-ASS and Hit-Girl are back for more action in Mark Millar’s comic book sequel, which packs more of a punch than the first film.

Now directed by American Jeff Wadlow, after Matthew Vaughn passed on the job, this follow-up to the 2010 movie is amped up with darker humour, more swearing and more violence than the first film.

Set four years after Kick-Ass, our favourite characters have grown up.

Now 18 and close to finishing high school, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is keen to bring his green Kick-Ass suit out of the closet, while Mindy McCready (Chloe Grace Moretz), who sneaks out of school to bust drug-dealers, is being urged to forget her superhero sideline as Hit-Girl and fit in and be a normal teenager, following the death of her father Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage).

Fans will be glad that Kick-Ass 2 is a faithful sequel, although some of the darker references in the comic book have been taken out, following the shooting tragedies in Aurora, Colorado, and Sandy Hook, Connecticut.