In this action-filled installment of the Kingsman series, two top-secret spy organizations – one from the UK and one in the US – join forces to defeat a ruthless common enemy.

This was a fun movie and I don’t want you to get the impression that you shouldn’t check it out, but it does double down on a few concepts that I thought were silly in the first film and leaves out several that I thought were necessary components of the story. Everyone is back for the sequel (new villains though, ‘natch), but no one is out of their element and learning about their place in a brave new world. I think part of what made the first movie so special was that Eggsy was truly an everyman and he seems to have conformed to the Kingmen a little too completely without much of his past or upbringing causing him much trouble at all.

As mentioned though, it was still a fun film, with a tad too much CGI, but still enjoyable.