Several months before Kick-Ass 2 was released , Jim Carrey withdrew support for the film on account of the amount of violence in it in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting . Carrey wrote : " I did '' Kick-Ass '' a month before Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I can not support that level of violence . My apologies to others involved with the film . I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart . " Mark Millar replied in his official forum , saying , " Yes , the body-count is very high , but a movie called '' Kick-Ass 2 '' really has to do with what it says on the tin , " and compared it to films by Quentin Tarantino , Sam Peckinpah , Chan-wook Park , and Martin Scorsese . Millar insisted the film concentrated on the consequences of violence rather than the violence itself
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Kick-Ass 2 (film)