Does not live up to the hype.

Rating: 4/10 (4 December 2010)

You know you have a bad superhero movie when you want the "cute, spunky, supposedly bad-ass little girl heroine" to be kicked in the face by the villain. Which eventually happens and it was great. That sounds horrible but that's really how much I disliked that girl. It was very sad how the most hyped thing about this movie was Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl and she is easily one of the worst things about the movie. They tried way too hard to make her character funny. But it just came off as incredibly stupid to have an 11 year old kid swear and murder people. This was a surprisingly unfunny movie. Me and my friends watched this tonight because we had nothing to do. And it was not worth my Saturday night. It was extremely dumb. It's not comparable to movies like Final Destination and Billy Madison, which are so dumb they can't help but make you laugh. This movie got zero laughs from my entire group of friends. I honestly don't understand why this has gotten an 8.1 on IMDb, but to each his own. In my opinion, there were few redeemable things about this movie. One was Christopher Mintz-Plasse--who should have been in more of the movie than he was. The actor who played Kick-Ass also wasn't bad, he just wasn't as funny as he could have been. Which was probably more the writer's fault than the actor's. Also, the violence was too much. I'm definitely not squeamish by any standards and I personally like violence in movies...when it works. The action in this movie was the same in every fight scene and seeing a little girl stabbing grown men and cutting off their legs is just frankly uncomfortable. And very stupid. Did I mention that? I really would not recommend this movie if you are looking for laughs. It is supposed to be campy, quirky, and Superbad-like. However, it came off as dumb, unnecessarily violent and gross, and lacking in the hilarity that many reviews promise.