John Berry
4/20/2010
--------One thing I can say about the movie Kick-Ass is that it did in fact kick ass. I cannot say enough positive things about this movie. Now of course my opinion may not be as objective as someone who didn’t just have their boyhood fantasy played out for them on the big screen. Yes its true, I always wanted to be a superhero. In fact I would still love to be a superhero. I’m not going to lie about it. I mean really, what could be cooler? Winning the 215 million dollar lottery would probably be a little cooler. However being bombarded by cosmic radiation and transforming into a super powered being seems about as likely. I mean sure people win millions of dollars in lotteries every week and to date nobody has mutated from being bitten by a radioactive spider. However I don’t personally know anyone who has won the lottery or become superpowered.
--------Now in Kick-Ass nobody has super powers. But that’s OK. It was still pretty damn super. I mean Batman doesn’t have super powers and he is still considered a super hero by most. What is important is it was a movie about the super hero genre. I would probably place this movie, along with Mystery Men, in the top ten superhero moves of all time. Now it doesn’t have all the mega super special effects often associated with the genre, but it certainly makes up for it in entertainment value. I guess that’s what happens when the script is valued over explosions. Don’t get me wrong there are some explosions.
--------Hit Girl, the eight year old with the purple hair, stole the show. She had both the best lines and the best action sequences. She probably did about eighty percent of the ass kicking in the movie. With this high flipping gravity defying little girl they were able to accomplish something Lucas with all his resources was not able to accomplish during the Yoda fights. Make it cool. Now I’m not going to say they made the fight choreography believable by any stretch of the imagination. They did however make it awesome.
--------Now the character named Kick-Ass didn’t really kick that much ass. His combat advantage was that most of his bones had titanium implants and he had nerve damage that prevented him from feeling pain. So he was able to take quite a beating. He wasn’t very skilled or armed, he just had giant balls. But hey that’s something.
--------Let me tell you what was awesome. The big finish. When the boss went down, he went down hard. The final “fuck you” to the boss was creative and epic. I like seeing bad guys go down in epic fashion, it leaves me with the feeling that all is as it should be. I never read the comic book. In fact I never even heard of it until I saw the preview for the movie. I expect it came out during one of my comic book hiatuses. Once I saw the trailer I was interested. I however decided to wait and watch the movie first. So I cannot compare the movie to the comic book and all that fanboyness. Not to say there is anything wrong with all that, because believe me I would. What I am curious about is the status of a sequel. The movie ending sets it up. Does the comic do the same? I guess I’ll have to read it and see.