Review: Kick-Ass (2010)
May 3, 2010 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2010 at 2:01 pm by Autumnlicious.)
Kick-Ass (2010) - Rated 'R' in USA
Action/Adventure/Comedy/Gore
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One liner: Shut up. Kick-ass.
My one liner: Loser discovers there is more to wearing a ridiculous costume and posing as a superhero.
Review:
Kick-Ass was one of those movies I was most apprehensive about. The name sounded mundane, the picture moronic and the plot seemed so-so. Walking out of it afterwards, however, I thought a little differently. This was because the director artfully tied together elements of rude youth humor, relied on using gore as little as possible (when it was used, it was used most accurately) and tried to balance between showing us a loser and showing us a loser who tries to fight. The most ridiculous element of the movie, however, was Hit-Girl - an assassin who also happens to be a young girl (as in 10 years old), trained by her father to serve as his assistant in taking down the utterly monstrous, inhumane and thoroughly believable mafia don, Frank D'Amico. Balancing ridiculous and the cold chilling reality of mafioso's, Kick-Ass accomplishes what it was intended for and nothing else: a nerd's dream, improbable people and a bloody minded world reliant on guns, wood chippers and sheer ruthlessness.
Decision:
It is a fair movie. Feel free to see it, but it is no show stopper if you don't.
Special notes:
The gore, while minimal compared to other 'R' films, may be unsettling.
This movie is tested and ok'ed for use with marijuana.
This movie is not tested with deliriants/psychedelics and is cautioned against due to changes in musical score, intonation and use of suggestion before exposure to gore, maximizing effect.
Action/Adventure/Comedy/Gore
One liner: Shut up. Kick-ass.
My one liner: Loser discovers there is more to wearing a ridiculous costume and posing as a superhero.
Review:
Kick-Ass was one of those movies I was most apprehensive about. The name sounded mundane, the picture moronic and the plot seemed so-so. Walking out of it afterwards, however, I thought a little differently. This was because the director artfully tied together elements of rude youth humor, relied on using gore as little as possible (when it was used, it was used most accurately) and tried to balance between showing us a loser and showing us a loser who tries to fight. The most ridiculous element of the movie, however, was Hit-Girl - an assassin who also happens to be a young girl (as in 10 years old), trained by her father to serve as his assistant in taking down the utterly monstrous, inhumane and thoroughly believable mafia don, Frank D'Amico. Balancing ridiculous and the cold chilling reality of mafioso's, Kick-Ass accomplishes what it was intended for and nothing else: a nerd's dream, improbable people and a bloody minded world reliant on guns, wood chippers and sheer ruthlessness.
Decision:
It is a fair movie. Feel free to see it, but it is no show stopper if you don't.
Special notes:
The gore, while minimal compared to other 'R' films, may be unsettling.
This movie is tested and ok'ed for use with marijuana.
This movie is not tested with deliriants/psychedelics and is cautioned against due to changes in musical score, intonation and use of suggestion before exposure to gore, maximizing effect.
