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Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero black comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Jane Goldman and Vaughn. It is based on the Marvel Comics' comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr, and is the first film in the Kick-Ass franchise.
It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and his son Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.
Why It Kicks Ass!
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- The film is almost completely accurate to the source material, adapting many scenes from the comic series.
- Dave Lizewski (also known as Kick-Ass himself) is a very likable character backed up by a great performance by Aaron Johnson.
- Hit-Girl is a badass and the child acting from her is great.
- Awesome action scenes, especially during the exciting climax.
The Only Bad Quality
- Makes some changes from the original story, for example, in the comic book Mindy's mother is later revealed to be alive and what Big Daddy said about her wife being dead was a lie, but in the movie, Mindy's mother died.
Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 77% based on 268 reviews and an average rating of 7.1/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the comic adaptation genre to new levels of visual style, bloody violence, and gleeful profanity." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 38 mainstream critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". American audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.
Trivia
- The film caused controversy due to its display of violence and use of the line "Okay, you cunts, let's see what you can do now," delivered by Hit-Girl because the actress Chloë Grace Moretz, who was 12 years old at the time of filming. Australian Family Association spokesman John Morrissey said that "the language [was] offensive and the values inappropriate; without the saving grace of the bloodless victory of traditional superheroes". Moretz stated in an interview, "If I ever uttered one word that I said in Kick-Ass, I would be grounded for years! I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that. I'm an average, everyday girl." Moretz has said that while filming, she could not bring herself to say the film's title out loud in interviews, instead calling it "the film" in public and "Kick-Butt" at home. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (who portrayed Chris D’Amico / Red Mist in the film) notes hypocrisy in that people were angry about the language but did not seem to be offended that Hit-Girl kills numerous people.