Enjoyable piece of superhero satire and outrageous action.

Rating: 8/10 (28 August 2011)

Cinema today has become over saturated enough as it is with superhero flicks, be it Marvel, DC or anything else less mainstream. So it's quiet refreshing that they're willing to bring more cult classics onto the big screen.
Kick-Ass is a sort of a self parody in someways as it seems to satire the whole superhero concept from beginning to end. The writer of the comics, Mark Millar, even said that the idea was based off of his own desire to be a superhero growing up in Scotland. It feels somewhat believable that a teenage looser might actually try this out someday resulting in this much mishap, for the first half of the film anyway since towards the end it gets more over-the-top. The writing is well thought out with a great sense of irony and humor, even really dark and brutally violent scenes will bring a devious grin to your face. Characters feel believable and are easy to connect with, especially Hit Girl who has to be one of the most interesting characters I've ever seen in cinema. It's hilarious how one critic accused the film makers for making this eleven-year-old girl 'sexulized' but then bawled when he was accused of pedophilia himself, as though he expected anything else! That little rant aside, Kick-Ass is a refreshing and amusing piece of work that should have you coming back for more. Roll on the sequel!