Kick-Ass is only half right.
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04/22/10
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Kick-Ass (2010)
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Reviews Counted:203
Fresh:156
Rotten:47
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the comic adaptation genre to new levels of visual style, bloody violence, and gleeful profanity.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Apr 16, 2010 Wide
Box Office: $19,828,687
Synopsis: Mark Millar's violent comic tale of wannabe superheroes is adapted by writer-director Matthew Vaughn (LAYER CAKE) with this Marv Films production. Aaron Johnson stars as a teen who steps out of his... [More]
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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Reviews for Kick-Ass
The movie gives us good reason to ask why we've become so accustomed to adults behaving like invulnerable comic-book characters in pretty much every action movie, even those with serious pretensions.
04/21/10
Matthew Vaughn and company turn the super hero image on its ear, reinventing the genre.
04/20/10
The select audience it is aimed for will thoroughly enjoy it while the rest of us will suffer through it.
04/20/10
The best comic book screen adaptation since The Dark Knight!
04/20/10
It isn't terribly good, nor terribly fun, nor terribly anything - not even terribly violent, though you've probably heard otherwise from an assortment of moral scolds.
04/19/10
Certainly entertaining enough as an action film and it works well enough as a love story, but there are some serious problems with the dramatic portions of the film and its warped moral message.
04/19/10
However the film also has major pacing issues, is pretty damned boring and saddles the audience with the least interesting character in the entire film, Kick-Ass. As a result I felt the film was simply o.k. when it could have been much, much better.
04/19/10
Comic scribe Mark Millar and director Matthew Vaughn’s pitch-black love letter to the genre, Wertham’s greatest fear is fully realized in an irresponsible blitzkrieg of irony-tinged fun.
04/19/10
This film delivers on that fantasy with a world where bad guys are real and superheroes are geeky high school comic-book fans.
04/19/10
The funniest, tongue-in-cheekiest, most outrageous version of a superhero ever.
04/19/10
I know it’s all supposed to be tongue in cheek and lots of fun, but frankly this turned my stomach.
04/19/10
Top CriticWhen filmmakers nudge a child into viewing savagery as slapstick, are we not allowing them to do what we condemn in the pornographer -- that is, to coarsen and inflame?
04/19/10
Top CriticKick-Ass is ultra-funny, ultra-silly and ultra-geeky, but what Kick-Ass mostly is, is monumentally cool - this is the film the kids will be swearing about.
04/18/10
Smart, fast-moving, and deadly, this flick makes all the right moves as an adult tale of revenge sparked with black humor that is a hair-trigger removed from tragedy
04/18/10
'Kick-Ass' OWNS.
04/18/10
With an overload of characters and contrasts and disconnects, Kick-Ass tears itself apart. And that leaves its ultra violence untenable.
04/18/10
...there's little doubt that Moretz ultimately stands as the film's most valuable asset...
04/18/10
Should I be having this much fun watching an 11-year-old destroy her competition? You know what, I think the answer is yes.
04/17/10
Orgazmo (minus the Mormons and pornography) meets Shoot 'Em Up. Fun, not as plausible as you might like, and very, very dark.
04/17/10
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