Great if you're up for it

Rating: 9/10 (1 April 2010)

This movie is going to upset some people. It is very violent, it is full of profanity, and much of the profanity comes from a pre-adolescent girl, and there is a great deal of moral questionability about it, all of which is tied up in a moderately humorous and fairly improbable tale of real-world teens taking up super-heroing.
So if that's not your thing, I really can't recommend it.
But if you enjoyed last year's Wanted, also adapted from a comic by Mark Millar, then it's likely that you'll enjoy this. The story is strong, the script is punchy and entertaining (although perhaps a little over-dependent on profanity), there is a lot of very well staged action, the characters are all fun, there are some enjoyable high school romance subplots, a great deal of comic culture texture, and there is a genuine sense of jeopardy driving much of what happens - it is entirely possible that anyone may get damaged for real.
I greatly enjoyed it even though there are elements in it which worry me a little.