How Kick Ass does Kick-Ass look?
Part of me is worried that stylistically it seems to have more in common with Sky High than with Wanted. The swan-diving superhero at the beginning is a good sign that they didn’t COMPLETELY kidify the story to make it not only palatable to the teens and tweens who will inevitably want to see a movie about a 15 year old who dons a suit to fight crime, but also acceptable to their parents who would have a problem with an 11 year-old hit girl going all Kill Bill on a group of Mafiosos (hence they aged her).
Kick-Ass is a great supposedly monthly comic (although I have some problems with the unnecessary hate speech that writer Mark Millar puts in his hero’s mouth), but it was seriously harmed by scheduling issues (took 18 months to publish 8 issues). A pivotal part of the plot was revealed early… at the time the casting for Red Mist was revealed, the character was described as the son of a Mafia don even though he hadn’t even been introduced yet – completely spoiling that characters eventual betrayal. The concluding eighth issue of Kick-Ass is due in December so perhaps we’ll see a resolution to the story before the movie comes out.
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11/16/2009 at 2:19 pm
cool.
11/16/2009 at 7:04 pm
I actually liked Sky High
For what it was, it was pretty enjoyable.
11/16/2009 at 9:21 pm
I’m excited
11/18/2009 at 4:41 am
I liked Sky High for Lynda Carter
This movie looks like fun, but I haven’t read the comic…
11/18/2009 at 5:42 pm
Having read the comics and loved how gory they were….this seems a little too homogenized. I just don’t seeing this doing well at the box office. When will hollywood stop dumbing down everything cool?!?!?!