Very Intreesting and Layed Film

Rating: 8/10 (2 October 2010)

To be honest, at first I hated this film b4 I saw it. How did some super hero flick just released make it into the Top 250 here with some bratty pre-teen murderous girl as the breakout star. It seemed so contrived. But the best part of it is that it is a layered film. We have some nerdy teen and friends in a semi rough high school and their travails. A raft of brutal street thugs who are reality based and not too over the top. Then you have two almost super heroes, a discredited cop and his daughter, the Macreadys Big Daddy & Hit Girl who are totally over the top in their single minded desire to rid the world of Frank D'Amico and his equally over the top violent mobsters who ruined Macready;s career by getting him framed. With Nick Cage as Big Daddy, a Batman knockoff, be prepared for his trademark role immersion, except this Batman uses guns and likes to kill and trained his 11 year old daughter into a whirling dervish of death, Hit Girl, in a plaid skirt, foul mouth and purple wig. Then throw in the mobster's son, a would be faux super hero, Red Mist, and you have one heck of a movie.
There is the awkward teen coming of age aspect as Dave goes would be superhero to compensate for his drab, colorless existence in a trio of comic book fan outcasts. His first attempt at superherodom resulted in getting quite the beating then getting run down accidentally which required extensive orthopedic rebuild ala 6 Million Dollar Man. No one was on to him but now a rumor circulated that he was a fruit, which ironically got the attention of the beautiful girl who ignored him and who was a would be fag hag. His next attempt was a bit more successful and got him publicity as he beat off three hoods bent on stomping another one. That got a lot of attention by the media through a You Tube video.
But it started to get dicey when he tried to help his doting fag hag teen beauty Katie Deauxma, who was being harassed by some scumbag street level dealer she met when she volunteered at the drug needle exchange clinic. She doted on that scum who used and abused her so Dave told her to write to Kick Ass's Facebook page for some help. He gets the balls to go into the scum Rasul's apartment full of lowlifes to deliver a message and he almost gets his ass kicked when Hit Girl and Big Daddy arrived to do in the whole lot of them, take their money and save Kick Ass's skin too. The father daughter duo take a liking to him but advised him to stay out of the action. Then it got even more deeper and over the top culminating in a sky scraper storming scene that made the Boondock Saints version look like the lame crap that it was. So you had three layers, the teen coming of age, finding himself and getting laid, some run ins with brutal local lowlifes, then even more violent and brutal mobsters up to the totally over the top Hit Girl, Big Daddy duo leading to the grand finale.