Video: For all its style and slickly choreographed fight sequences, Fox’s Kingsman franchise is way more interested in being ridiculously fun to watch than anything else. That’s not to suggest that a grappling umbrella isn’t cool (it totally is), but rather, Kingsman knows that it’s that much flyer because of how insane it is.
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Given that The Golden Circle‘s plot revolves around the British Kingsman agents clashing with their American Statesman counterparts, you might imagine that the film could feature a bunch of altercations between super spies fighting with fancy patriotic weapons. The good news: It does. The great news: Their weapon/gadgets are freaking choice. You have briefcase rocket launchers, electrified lassos, shotgun umbrellas, and hundreds of terrifying drones carrying what appears to be whiskey and/or tea.
This TV spot opens with Eggsy dining with Princess Tilde (Hanna Alström) — whom you’ll remember from the last film and whom Eggsy (Taron Egerton apparently) has apparently kept in touch with — and her parents, presumably the king and queen. There’s a bit of tension, but the manners Eggsy picked up from his training seem to stand him in good stead. That hard-won gentlemanliness is all the more hilarious when contrasted with the much looser and informal Statesman organisation in America.
Add to that Julianne Moore’s maniacal Martha Stewart-esque villain and Channing Tatum’s… questionable Texas accent and you have a spy-fi thriller that knows just how far a little whimsy can take the genre.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle hits theatres September 21.