Kick-Ass oh Kick-Ass, the superhero movie with "Ass" in it's name based of the comic book series. The first big superhero movie of the year, so you know I had to see it. I've been putting it off for two weeks, and since I found a near perfect cam of it I knocked it outta the park, and it did not disappoint.
We open with a superhero on top of a building in New York City and he's going to fly off the top of a building, with the main character, narrating, asking why after all this time no ones tried to be a superhero. The man then jumps on the roof, doesn't fly and land on a taxi, he was mentally ill. The narrators voice is from Dave Lizewski aka Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnston), who turns out to be a geeky, high school, comic book nerd who fantasizes about his English teacher and jerks it in him room whenever he fancies. (Hahaha) On his way home from the comic book store him, and one of his best friends Todd (Evan Peters), get robbed of their money and comic all while a man watches. After that he decides to become a superhero, buying a green wetsuit complete with a mask and everything. Though he looks like one, his first crack at fighting crime ends up with him getting stabbed and hit by a car. But, after his hospital stay and new metal plates he feels rejuvenated and stops a revenge beating between a gang and a person and gains internet fame for his "Kick-Ass" persona. All the while other "superheroes", a man and his daughter, Damon and Mindy MacReady aka Big Daddy and Hit-Girl (Nicholas Cage/Chloë Moretz), are on a war path to kill the biggest crime boss in NYC, Frank D'Amico (Mark Stong). They cross paths with Kick-Ass as he's trying to stop a man from messing with his high school crush, Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca), what Kick-Ass doesn't realize that the man is a big dealer of D'Amico. Just as he's about to get his ass handed to him, Hit-Girl swoops in knives, blades, and filthy mouth blazing and slaughters the whole room saving Kick-Ass. Finally enter Chris D'Amico aka Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), D'Amicos son, who offers to become said hero, to help catch Kick-Ass who they assumes been killing all their business. Once he finds out that Kick-Ass isn't doing the killing an almost two-faced hero hints out of him. The rest of the movie is filled with Kick-Ass teaming up with Red Mist, Hit-Girl and Big Daddy slaughtering more of D'Amico's goons, Kick-Ass getting a girlfriend, Hit-Girl killing yet more thugs, Red Mist and his dad capturing Kick-Ass/Big Daddy, Hit-Girls saving them in a night-vision kill scene, and a guy saying "Screw this, I'm going to get the bazooka."
I liked it a lot, sure a lot of people are complaining about the number of bloody kills Hit-Girl made, or even the profanity she used. But that's what you get with a rated R movie based of the comic that chock full of the above said. The premise was simple, boy becomes superhero, boy meets other superheros, boy gets mixed up in their affairs, boy gets girlfriend, and boy and new superhero friends have to save the day. I think Matthew Vaughn did a great job with the flick, and hell it only cost him 30 million for that, which is really low by standards these days. Kick-Ass was played well by Aaron Johnson, he seemed to come off as a comic fan too, so that helped him get over with me. Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist was quite good, and his lines and role throughout got progressively better. Enter Hit-Girl my, and everyone else favorite character, played by the 11 year old Chloë Moretz. I think she'll be good in Hollywood, but in this, the knife wielding, bad guy slaying, foul mouthed little girl really worked well. Hit Girl is what my daughter will be someday. Don't judge me. Finally I'll touch on Nick Cage as Big Daddy. He was good, I know a lot of people give him s*** for his acting, but the last two movies I've seen him in were good. His wife dies during childbirth while he was in prison cause of D'Amico and all the violence is revenge on his wife. The scene where he takes out all the goons in the lumber warehouse is amazing. Speaking of D'Amico, played by Mark Strong, I think he did alright in his role of drug dealing daddy. Not to mention the comedy through out is great, the Lost line had me lol'ing hard.
Rotten Tomatoes has it 76% Fresh, and Megacritic has it at a 70% too. I really agree with them both. The over the top killing, combined with the relate-able superhero characters, played well by the actors, with the ok plot, good comedy, and nice dialogue made this quite a nice movie to watch. Not to mention death by industrial microwave! Plus I love how it offends people that Hit-Girl said all those "naughty words", yet they don't mention how she slaughtered like 50 people. Lol...world.
"Ass" count in this review: 11
Rating for Kick-Ass: 8/10 or 4/5 Stars
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