Lame-ass...

Rating: 6/10 (9 October 2010)

In addition to having very probably the dumbest title of all time, not to mention some of the most uninteresting characters ever conceived, KICK-ASS can also boast being The Most Blatant Rip-off Ever. (Not content with just raiding The Bat Cave, the "creators" of this one even misappropriated Frank Miller's Robin-as-a-girl twist.) Paper-thin characters with an even thinner plot don't add up to much. For the past several decades, comic book writers have been trying to make what's essentially clichéd kiddie fare- the Masked Hero genre- palatable to "adults." One method often employed has been the use of lots of four-letter words (which is about as childish a method as one can imagine)- and sex (see THE PROFESSIONAL). Heroes have been done well before, and will no doubt be done well again, but KICK-ASS is little more than the Candy Ass kind of movie it tries so hard NOT to be.