How Kick Ass does Kick-Ass look?
(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Part of me is worried that stylistically it seems to have more in common with Sky High than with Wanted. Brit actor Aaron Johnson looks more than adequate as Dave Lizewski. Also the swan-diving wanna-be 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).
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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, he was described as the son of a Mafia don even though the character hadn’t even been introduced yet – completely spoiling that characters eventual betrayal for the readers. The concluding eighth issue of Kick-Ass is due in December so perhaps we’ll see a resolution to the story before the movie ACTUALLY 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?!?!?!