Average teenager Dave decides to live his dream of being a superhero, fighting bad guys, and saving the good people. But as soon as he puts on the mask and begins fantasising, what began as a childhood dream soon turns into an epic nightmare.
What it the name of all that is holy!? I think everyone who worked on this film was on drugs! This had to be one the most retarded, strange, shocking, and fantastically stupid movies I've sat down and watched. It's sooo stupid, that it's actually funny.
Average teenager Dave begins to wonder why nobody has tried to be a superhero. Everyone reads the comics, but no one ever tries it. Why? With this on his mind, he gets an outfit and decides to live his dream, by becoming Kick-Ass. Upon getting into his first fight, he is severely injured and many of his limbs have to be replaced with metal ones. Now that he actually has some sort of 'super power', he's back on the street, teaching the bad guys a lesson. But when one of his 'super fights' is filmed and put on the Internet, it produces a string of superheroes, some of whom are the real deal. And what started out as the chance to live a childhood dream soon turns into a violent and epic nightmare.
I think the major thing that was clever about this movie was how it pretty much took "pretending to be your hero" to a whole new level. The whole movie is basically about a guy who actually has the guts at adolescence to dress in a jumpsuit and attempt to fight crime. And in the process he starts a trend. It was a clever story, I'll give it that.
The script was clever too, quoting lines from other superhero flicks and sampling scenes from them too.
"Wait til they get a load of me." - Famously said by Jack Nicholson in Batman and now used as the last line of Kick-Ass.
Aaron Johnson who plays the masked avenger was great. Very simplye, quite funny, and genuine. I can imagine that he spent his free moments reading about Batman and Spiderman.
The real hero though, was young Chloe Moretz who plays Hit Girl. Dishing out the majority of the movie's violence (keep in mind that it's an MA movie) and being like 11 years old, she was not to be ignored.
Filled with familiar faces such as Christopher Mintz-Plass, Mark Strong, and Nicholas Cage, Kick-Ass was a clever film about following trends and how dangerous they can become if taken too seriously. Packed with action, dorks, sex, blood, slicing, violence, and many a one-piece suit, Kick-Ass was a fantastically stupid movie that gets, simultaneously, a "how clever" reaction and a "what the fuck!?" reaction. Worth seeing at least once.
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