Saw Kick Ass last night and god was I blown away! I mean globlets of pure joy were literally oozing into my brain causing me to violently shake with mirth. To say it's violent would be an understatement. To say it's HOLY CRAP FREAKIN' AWESOME, well that would be more accurate, so let's roll with that.
Now after seeing the trailer I was less than impressed. The whole thing screamed Superbad with spandex, which was obviously reinforced by the inclusion of that goofasaurus Chris Mintz-Plasse - you know the gimpy guy who goes by the name of 'McLovin' in that very same movie. Not really what I was expecting after seeing endless articles and posts about the movie online and discovering that it was based on a 2008 Marvel comic series. What's more the trailer depicted very little violence and ended up resembling some tame family-orientated, Spy Kids-esque abomination.
Without giving too much away, let's just say that this movie makes Watchmen look like a Disney picture, so don't expect a tiresome teen comedy with a couple of breezy action sequences, limbs are severed, C-bombs are dropped and henchmen are microwaved alive. Ok, so it's all delivered in a stylised and humorous way, but yeah things just got dark up in comic book land. Hit Girl for example (cutesy 11 year-old with purple wig), is done no justice in the trailer. Her line in the particular version I watched 'so you wanna play', is one of the few she spouts without the words 'fuck', 'cunt' or 'douche' in it. Basically if Chuck Norris jizzed in his own cap and had Uma Thurman sit on it, the end result would be Hit Girl.
And if a obscenity spewing little kid with a wig doesn't do it for you, her pops played by Nick Cage should have you chundering popcorn as you try to hold down large chunks of merriment. Yeah so Cage is a shit actor, we know, but he actually suits the role of the damaged-single-dad raising homicidal-underling well. The two share some great scenes (of which I won't spoil) and his Adam Westy delivery adds to the comedic feel brilliantly.
As for the main character, Dave, played by Aaron Johnson, he comprises of everything a leading kid in one of these movies needs to - he's geeky, he's aspirational and most of all he just wants to get laid. I feel you brother... Yeah so he's a shit super hero, with a shit name and shit resources but god does he try hard to get the job done. It's difficult not to give kudos to this stinking failure of a human being as he rarely tires of his quest, despite being shat on by everybody within a 2 mile radius.
All in all Kick Ass kicks buttocks/posteriors/everything/your mum.
Now to make some sweeping statements.
Kick Ass is like Tarrantino doing Marvel only better.
Kick Ass features some of the best action scenes to hit the silver screen in the last ten years.
Kick Ass features several of the best comedic scenes I have seen in the past five years.
Kick Ass's choreography will make you go 'ooo' and 'ahh'.
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P.S. I'm that into it that I just went out and brought the graphic novel.
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