Was I supposed to enjoy watching an 11 year old kid getting all beat up?

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2010)

Sure, many people loved this allegedly realistic (yeah right) comic book film, but I beg to differ. Sure, it had a nice idea in its core (how would comic book characters act in the real world, told through the eyes of a nerdy teenager?). Unforutnaely, it got tangled up in its own web during the second half - when secondary characters took over the screen and turned into a bloody mess which totally forgot the point it sets out to tell.
Being more specific, Kick Ass was a movie I found extremely offensive - mostly because of the Hit Girl character. She was cartoonish and unreal, an 11 year-old girl talking and acting like a pretentious adult, which then goes on to beat the crap out of numerous bad guys. Kids aren't supposed to kill people - good or bad. They're supposed to enjoy what little innocence they have left at this day and age. Instead, this character just acts as a parade of everything that's wrong and immoral about today's children (cursing, beating, acting too old for their own good).
To top it all - near the end of the film, Mark Strong's character gets back at Hit Girl and gives her a long, hard beating. Aren't there any rules about the way children are portrayed on the big screen? Was I supposed to enjoy watching an 11 year old kid getting all beat up by an adult? If there are rules that prevent underage minors from appearing nude or being sexualized, why isn't there any supervision on the portrayal of violence towards and from minors on screen?