{"id":2525,"date":"2017-09-23T23:52:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2017-09-24T00:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T00:11:33","slug":"kingsman-the-golden-circle-delightful-comic-book-style-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/23\/kingsman-the-golden-circle-delightful-comic-book-style-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE – DELIGHTFUL COMIC BOOK STYLE BOND"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kingsman-golden-circle\"SHORT TAKE:<\/p>\n

Kingsman: The Golden Circle,<\/em> the sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service<\/em>, successfully returns to the tongue-in-cheek spy world of Eggsey – the street tough turned posh spy.<\/p>\n

LONG TAKE:<\/p>\n

Take one part Avengers<\/em> superheroes, one part tongue in cheek graphic novel adaptation, throw in characters you’ve come to love from the first Kingsman<\/em>, \u00a0add a touch of\u00a0monomaniacal villain complete with homicidal robot dogs and a henchman with a cybernetic killer arm,\u00a0 gizmos that would have made Q salivate, Zombieland<\/em>-style comic book graphic violence,\u00a0and blend with a Bond background – shaken not stirred – and you have Kingsman: The Golden Circle.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"kingsmanI loved Kingsman: The Secret Service<\/em>.\u00a0007 which skates right up to the edge of parody, complete with\u00a0outrageous fight scenes,\u00a0action which would have killed an ordinary human a dozen times over\u00a0leave our heroes unscathed and not even sweaty. If you haven’t seen the first one, The Golden Circle<\/em> can stand on its own. Background is provided when needed – sparse enough not to be a sledgehammer but enough to all make sense.<\/p>\n

Kingsman<\/em> does it right. They do NOT take themselves too seriously but still respect\u00a0their characters and the world they inhabit. They always stay within the confines of the universe they create. They never cheat out a deus ex machine. Their problems are convoluted but their resolutions are based upon established clues.<\/p>\n

\"charactersThe first Kingsman<\/em> movie introduced the Kingsmen, a secret society of spies and specialists who defend the world from bad guys. Based in England their code names are taken from the Arthurian legends.\"harry We also meet our hero – Eggsey – a diamond in the rough, son of a deceased\u00a0 Kingsman who Harry (Colin Firth),\u00a0veteran Kingsman (code named Galahad) sponsors as a candidate to become a Kingsman. We get to see the trials and are introduced to that film’s super-villain played by a lisping Samuel L Jackson.<\/p>\n

\"eggsey\"This time out we pick up the story in a very Bond-like dramatic fashion, with a bang – and an outlandish car chase, a cybernetic bad guy, bombs, and \"underwater\"an underwater hideout – as the now experienced Kingsman, Eggsey, thwarts a battalion of unknown henchman who try to assassinate him.<\/p>\n

I really don’t want to give anything away\u00a0because this a movie that is tremendous fun and full of surprises and delightful cameos. It deserves to be enjoyed unspoiled. But I will say that Golden Circle<\/em> introduces us to an entire other group of Kingsmen – cousins you might say – to help\u00a0combat a new world threatening megalomaniac.<\/p>\n

\"merlinTaron Egerton is, again, delightful as, Eggsey,\u00a0the street-wise polished Eliza Doolittle of the Bond world. I was really happy to see Mark Strong reappear in one of the few good guys roles he’s ever done as Merlin, this Universe’s Q. \"princessHanna Alstrom reprises her role as Princess Tilde, former damsel in distress, now Eggsey’s girlfriend. And then there’s……well, as Dr. Who’s River Song might caution —- Spoilers, which I am loathe to do here.\"statesmen\"<\/p>\n

I highly recommend this movie to any ADULT who wants to see a fun, funny, action adventure, good old fashioned archly delivered Bond yarn. \"casinoFor anyone old enough to remember the David Niven 1967 outright parody of James Bond, Casino Royale<\/em>, there is a small flavoring of that too, like a teensy bit of sugar in a spaghetti sauce, just to be sure we don’t take ourselves too seriously.<\/p>\n

But ADULT is the key noun here. There are an exorbitant number of profanities. (I love the British and British movies, but\u00a0I\u00a0sometimes genuinely wonder if they know any\u00a0 emotion filled adjective other than the F word). And there are an unfortunate number of blasphemies used as expletives. In addition there is at least one graphic, oddly and\u00a0ultimately animated rather intimate physical scene.<\/p>\n

\"robot<\/p>\n

There is a LOT of comic book violence including everything from explosions to dismemberment and an unnaturally clean Fargo homage.<\/p>\n

But if you are in the mood and of\u00a0 the disposition, if you enjoyed the first Kingsman<\/em> then you will love this one too. There are plenty of familiar references but lots of new characters, innovations, bad guys and preposterous plot contrivances to keep even the most jaded adventure\/spy thriller fan happy.<\/p>\n

Kingsman<\/em>, like Eggsey, may be the new kid on the block in terms of spy adventures, but this\u00a0budding franchise, like our intrepid hero,\u00a0has proven itself again. \"k-gc\"Like the first\u00a0Kingsman<\/em>\u00a0outing, Golden Circle<\/em> is\u00a0both a really good time on the outlandish spy\u00a0adventure\u00a0train as well as often laugh out loud funny and just plain old, sometimes even silly, fun. But this ride is for big people only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SHORT TAKE: Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service, successfully returns to the tongue-in-cheek spy world of Eggsey – the street tough turned posh spy. LONG TAKE: Take one part Avengers superheroes, one part tongue in cheek graphic novel adaptation, throw in characters you’ve come to love from the first Kingsman, … Continue reading KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE – DELIGHTFUL COMIC BOOK STYLE BOND<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,226,224,217,215,223,222,216,220,131,219,225,221,6,227,9,214],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bond","tag-british","tag-bruce-greenwood","tag-channing-tatum","tag-colin-firth","tag-elton-john","tag-halle-berry","tag-jeff-bridges","tag-julianne-moore","tag-kingsman","tag-mark-strong","tag-matthew-vaughn","tag-michael-gambon","tag-movies","tag-parody","tag-review","tag-taron-egerton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/poster-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mhKV-EJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}