Review: Kick Ass – The Movie

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training.

Ok, that’s enough of the “what’s the movie about”. I had the chance to go to the World Premiere of Kick Ass tonight which was a something that came out of the blue.

Not knowing what to expect, I arrived later than I planned on but when I got there I did what everyone, I expect, would do in going to an event like this without knowing what to do… I started looking around for faces I knew. That being said I quickly bumped into Nicola Scott (Secret Six artist) and her husband Craig.

We were delayed in getting in due to an unforeseen, well I didn’t know about it, cricket match which caused people who had a 5 minute trip to take an hour to get there.

But then we went in… We had to give up phones and everything like that but it’s a small loss for 2 hours worth of entertainment!

As we had an introduction to it we were informed that the music score wasn’t final but that didn’t matter, we all just wanted to see the movie!

Ok, here we go!

I haven’t read any of the issues but the movie started off with an homage to a lot of the superhero movies we have grown to love over the years with snippets of Superman, Batman, Spider-man and others as the credits came up.

I went in without any expectations of the movie, I’ve watched a few of the trailers and thought there were amusing but that is an understatement about this movie. From the opening scene of the winged hero on the rooftop that we’ve all seen from the trailers to just keep on running at full ball.

I loved the way the movie put the idea first up of how would a superhero work in the real world and what peoples reactions would be to see a masked marauder walking down the street.  You have to love when people see Kick Ass for the first time and just start laughing.

The pacing of the movie also worked really well it slowed down where it needed to, seeing the mistakes that Kick Ass makes and the outcomes of people questioning his sexual orientation are played up to perfection.

Then we get to the action. The fight scenes are over the top but that doesn’t detract from the movie at all as everything in it is over the top and they let you know about it at every point they get. Hit Girl is the best at that. I don’t know if it is just fantastic choreography or the fact someone some young is doing something so violent but it all comes together here.

Now as it isn’t being released in Australia until April 8th and in the US until March 10th I don’t want to give away anything about the plot of the movie so I’ll just go onto other aspects about the movie.

Aaron Johnston was fantastic as David/Kick Ass… There was a great level of wannabe that came across between him trying to be a superhero compared to Big Daddy and Hit Girl who have been training for it all of their lives.

Nicolas Cage blew me away with his performance. I think this is his best performance that I’ve seen from him. From the twisted caring father who is teaching his daughter to take a gunshot to when he puts on the costume, adds the handlebar mustache and puts on the William Shatner/Adam West Batman voice so people don’t know it’s him.

Chloe Moretz has to be the star of the show. She plays Hit Girl perfectly with the ability to get every one liner and she pulls of the action every time. I’m sure that there will be a flood of Hit Girls on the Cosplay scene very soon!

If your after a fun movie with a lot of humor that takes a fun look at everything we’ve came to love about movies, comics, violence and comedy. I’m sure this is going to be spouting a sequel soon and I for one will welcome it!

2 Responses to “Review: Kick Ass – The Movie”

1. Nuchtchas says:

   24/02/2010 at 12:50 am

   hmmm haven’t even heard about this movie, that’s how out of touch I am these days, but it looks interesting… after you broke it down. Had I just seen the costumes I might have thought it was a Scary Movie type of spoof and skipped it

2. Lord Shaper says:

   24/02/2010 at 7:25 am

   I knew it was coming but that was all I knew about it. Once more people have seen it I’d love to see what people think so we can talk more with spoilers!