How hard could it possibly be to put on a costume and help people? Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Kick-Ass’ answers that question pretty damned fast. Pretty damned hard, because it fucking hurts.
Kick-Ass is a superhero movie completely different from any that has been released before. Based on the comic book mini-series from Marvel Comics (Not surprised at all), the story is pretty simple. Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is a less-than-average high school student with typical teenage problems. His love of comic books has inspired him to want to do something amazing with his otherwise lame life…
So Dave decides to become a superhero. Nobody ever said that Dave was a SMART kid.
Modifying a green wetsuit he buys online, Lizewski becomes Kick-Ass — a masked crimefighter prepared to fight the forces of evil to help those in need. Unfortunately for Dave, he has absolutely NOTHING resembling a superpower (or any real ability to do anything, really), and he gets stabbed then hit by a car his first day on the job, and ends up in the hospital. After he recovers, his first successful rescue attempt gets on YouTube, and Kick-Ass quickly turns into an online sensation. He soon attracts the attention of Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) and Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz), two similarly masked, and more proficient vigilantes. Kick-Ass also attracts the attention of mob boss Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong), who eventually wants Kick-Ass dead. Christopher Mintz-Plasse plays Frank’s son Chris D’Amico, who dons a costume of his own as ‘Red Mist’.
This movie should be called ‘The Hit-Girl Show’, because to be honest, we think that she was the main reason people went to see this movie. Quick-witted and foul-mouthed, she overshadowed every other character in the movie. Nicholas Cage does a really good job as Big Daddy, too. Kick-Ass never kicked the ass of anything the whole movie, which was stupid, because he fought better in the comic book.
Still, we loved this movie, and we would actually spend money to see it more than once. And that’s saying a lot, because we’re cheap asses. Go check it out, if you haven’t already.
