Kick Ass
April 8th 2010 21:40
For a certain demographic this is a perfect film. For another demographic it definitley won't be. Those demographics would be "Boyfriends" and "Girlfriends".
I'm sorry to make such sweeping statements, and I'm sure there are examples who disagree with this but my own trip to see this wondrous super hero yarn reflected this theory.
I am a big comic book film enthusiast, but not to geek levels of worrying about why a main characters eyebrow isn't at the same angle as in the original sacred text. I therefore feel I can give a reasonably objective view of this film without rose tinted glasses or, conversly, without comparing it to every other comic story either written or filmed.
As a result my objective view says that this a thoroughly enjoyable and irreverant take on the superhero legend.
Aaron Johnson plays the lead character, an average teenager that decides he wants to be a superhero. He goes about ths by buying a wet suit of the internet and naming himself the title character Kick Ass wtih varying success.
Kick Ass gets entwined in a story of mob bosses and other more finely tuned and trained heroic vigilantes, namely the wonderful Nicholas Cage as "Big Daddy" and his 11 year old daughter "Hit Girl". This 11 year old (Chloe someone or other) has been the topic of some Daily Mail outrage and there is an argument to be had as to whether there is any need for a child to be swearing like a trouper and executing endless bad guys - but I have to be honest, I loved it and like (hopefully) most of the population I am able to rationalise the fact that it's, well - not real.
I won't bore you with any of the other story details - go and find out for yourself because this is a grown up comic book film that has a strictly adult tone but manages, just about, to walk the line between comedy, hard violence and teenage geekery.
I was left wanting more and that is a fair guide as to how good a film is in my book. I loved Kick Ass.
I'm sorry to make such sweeping statements, and I'm sure there are examples who disagree with this but my own trip to see this wondrous super hero yarn reflected this theory.
I am a big comic book film enthusiast, but not to geek levels of worrying about why a main characters eyebrow isn't at the same angle as in the original sacred text. I therefore feel I can give a reasonably objective view of this film without rose tinted glasses or, conversly, without comparing it to every other comic story either written or filmed.
As a result my objective view says that this a thoroughly enjoyable and irreverant take on the superhero legend.
Aaron Johnson plays the lead character, an average teenager that decides he wants to be a superhero. He goes about ths by buying a wet suit of the internet and naming himself the title character Kick Ass wtih varying success.
Kick Ass gets entwined in a story of mob bosses and other more finely tuned and trained heroic vigilantes, namely the wonderful Nicholas Cage as "Big Daddy" and his 11 year old daughter "Hit Girl". This 11 year old (Chloe someone or other) has been the topic of some Daily Mail outrage and there is an argument to be had as to whether there is any need for a child to be swearing like a trouper and executing endless bad guys - but I have to be honest, I loved it and like (hopefully) most of the population I am able to rationalise the fact that it's, well - not real.
I won't bore you with any of the other story details - go and find out for yourself because this is a grown up comic book film that has a strictly adult tone but manages, just about, to walk the line between comedy, hard violence and teenage geekery.
I was left wanting more and that is a fair guide as to how good a film is in my book. I loved Kick Ass.
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