The girders that reenforce the superstructure of Carrey’s stardom seem all but impervious to disruption. The world, and especially Jim Carrey, will continue to exist after Kick-Ass 2 just as it did before Kick-Ass 2. Carrey’s concern trolling for American culture aside, Kick-Ass 2 does not and will not matter, neither in a macro “What impact will this have on society?” sense nor a micro “How will this affect the course of Jim Carrey’s career?” sense. Whether Kick-Ass 2 will defy the trend or fortify it is beside the point. This summer has been a battlefield riddled with the corpses of dead-on-arrival event movies. “For your main actor to publicly say, ‘This movie is too violent for me’ is like saying, ‘This porno has too much nudity. “People keep saying to me, ‘Are you pissed off at Jim Carrey?’ No, I’m delighted with Jim Carrey, this is amazing,” writer-producer Mark Millar said last week. He apologized to his colleagues for sandbagging the project, but one prominent creator of Kick-Ass 2 expressed gratitude over Carrey’s breach of movie-star professionalism. While Carrey stopped short of condemning the film outright in a subsequent tweet (“I am not ashamed of it”), he implied that he couldn’t bring himself to promote Kick-Ass 2 on Letterman or Leno or Kimmel or Extra! or anyplace else, for that matter. “I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence,” he tweeted. In June, Jim Carrey took to Twitter to publicly disavow his association with the action-comedy Kick-Ass 2, which enters the dreary summer of 2013 blockbuster sweepstakes on Friday.
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