Pop Culture and Silliness to the Best

Rating: 8/10 (22 September 2010)

In New York, the teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is a loser high-school student fan of comic books ignored in school that spends most of his time with his friends Marty (Clark Duke) and Todd (Evan Peters) that are also comic book fans. Dave has a great attraction by Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca) that does not notice him. One day, the clumsy Dave decides to make the difference becoming a masked superhero without powers named Kick-Ass. However in his first action avoiding a car to be stolen by two punks, he is stabbed by one of them and hit by a car later. Dave is submitted to a surgery and his bones are mended with metal. When he recovers, Katie notices him believing that Dave is gay. In the night, Dave helps a man that is hunted down by three guys in front of a cafeteria and the teenagers shoot the fight with their cell phones and cameras. Then they put the footage in Internet and Kick-Ass immediately becomes famous. Meanwhile the powerful gangster Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) believes that Kick-Ass is responsible for actions against his gang and plots a scheme to destroy him. However, the responsible are the vigilantes Hit-Girl and Big Daddy, whose secret identities are Damon Macready (Nicolas Cage) and his daughter Mindy (Chloe Moretz). Damon is an ex-cop that was framed by Frank D'Amico and sentenced to prison. He lost his beloved wife while imprisoned and trained his daughter in fights and weapons to combat crime, more specifically Frank. They start a partnership with Kick-Ass, but sooner the evil Frank and his son Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) plot a plan to betray Kick-Ass.
"Kick-Ass" is one of the funniest movies I have watched this year, exploring pop culture of comic books, superheroes and video-games associated with silliness to the best. The cartoonist characters are hilarious, with a douchebag that has his ass frequently kicked deciding to become a hero that kick asses; an eleven year-old girl that is a hit-woman (actually a hit-girl); a paranoid father that raises his daughter training her to kill bad guys; a beautiful girl that gets closer to the anti-hero Dave just because she believes he is gay. "Kick-Ass" is a great parody to Spider-man and I loved the reference "with no power comes no responsibility". Chloe Moretz performs one of the most refreshing and crazy characters with Hit-Girl that looks like Steven Seagal or any other action movie hero like Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dolph Lundgren expert in martial arts and weapons that easily kill the bad guys and is responsible for some of the best moments of this entertaining film. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Kick-Ass: Quebrando Tudo" ("Kick-Ass: Breaking Everything")
Note: On 20 February 2016 I saw this film again.