Kick Ass Kicks Ass

Rating: 7/10 (18 April 2010)

Kick Ass is a superhero movie, and while it offers a satirical first act of what a superhero is, it rolls out as a true action movie by the time your watching the opening credits.
That being said, you haven't seen this movie before. The situations are going to seem familiar, but the character are all brand new, especially the little 11 year old that takes the spotlight, Hit Girl brings in what I would like to guess is the next big Character Archetype. Now you've had little girls, and you've had bad ass little girls, Hit Girl fits into Bad ass little girl, but way different than before. She says a few bad words at the start, but it seems like that quickly dies out before the opening. What is not changed is that she is in the scenes were the most gratuitous violence is depicted and she is almost always the one committing gratuitous violence.
Nicolas Cage works surprisingly perfect as a satire of Batman, and he ties in what unfortunately is probably a largely missed joke. Not going to spoil it here though.
Ultimately, it sets off as a spoof, and works its way backwards into being one of the most awesome movies you're likely to see this year, and definitely the best so far this year.
9/10