Way to Overwhelming

Rating: 4/10 (6 August 2010)

So I really wanted to see this movie because the trailer had been on the t.v nonstop and the movie looked fun. I never got to see it in theaters, but when it came out on DVD I sat down to watch expecting to have a few good laughs. The movie didn't start out that bad. Towards the beginning, the message I was getting from the movie was that there was injustice in the world and nobody was trying to fight it. I thought the movie was about being your own hero. And then HitGirl arrived. I really do like Chloe Moretz (the girl who plays HitGirl). I think she is a promising actress... but this was not one of her best films. In real life she's thirteen. In the movie, I think she's supposed to be eleven. On her first scene, HitGirl goes wild and kills these scary looking men in a very ungirly and unreal manner. It was really just hard to believe. Not to mention that one of her first lines in that god awful purple wig involved her saying the C word, which utterly shocked me. From then on, I started getting bored. I never finished watching the movie, I just went to Wikipedia and read the ending. The bloody gore and the raunchy language was really just too much, especially when the perpetrator was a young girl. It ruined the movie. Period. From the looks of it, the director was trying way to hard to get an audience.