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Movie Profile
Kick-Ass
2010 · United Kingdom, United States - Matthew Vaughn
Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) is an ordinary teenager who lives in New York. Dave, an avid comic book fan, wonders why nobody has attempted to become a real-life superhero, and is bitter that people do not intervene when a crime is being committed. He purchases a bodysuit and, after making modifications, embarks on a campaign to become a real-life superhero, despite having no superpowers or skills. After his first crime-fighting encounter leads to his getting stabbed and getting run over in a hit and run, leaving him with permanent nerve damage, he gains an enhanced capacity to endure pain, and surgical implants required to repair multiple skeletal fractures give him resistance to further bone-crushing injuries. His effort to conceal the truth, claiming he had had his clothes thrown off after being mugged, leads to rumors that he is gay. His longtime crush, Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca) immediately attempts to become his friend, having always wanted a "gay BFF"; Dave hesitantly goes along with it. After intervening in a gang attack, Dave's actions are recorded by a bystander and put on the internet, turning him into a celebrity. Calling himself "Kick-Ass", he sets up a MySpace account so he can be contacted for help. After responding to a request from Katie, he goes to deal with a drug dealer, Rasul, who has been harassing her. Rasul and his thugs quickly overpower him, but he is rescued by eleven-year-old vigilante Hit-Girl (Chloë Moretz), who kills his attackers and then leaves with her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage). They believe he has potential, but warn him to be more careful, and give him a way to contact them if needed.
Genres:
Action, Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Erotic, Crime, Drama
Release date:
2010-03-26
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Rotten Tomatoes
21 Critic reviews
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Laremy Legel
Film.com
Most of the lessons in Kick-Ass are juvenile, but Lordy are they stylishly told.
May 06, 2011 read full article
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Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
I found it mighty painful sitting through all the bone crushing and blood-letting.
April 23, 2010 read full article
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A.O. Scott
At the Movies
I know it's all supposed to be tongue in cheek and lots of fun, but frankly this turned my stomach.
April 19, 2010 read full article
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Anthony Lane
New Yorker
When filmmakers nudge a child into viewing savagery as slapstick, are we not allowing them to do what we condemn in the pornographer -- that is, to coarsen and inflame?
April 19, 2010 read full article
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Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Tom Long
Detroit News
Everything you've likely heard about Kick-Ass is true, providing you've heard it's profane, outlandish, ultra-violent, shocking, funny and wildly entertaining.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
Nicolas Cage is a hoot, a hollar and a fright as Damon Mac ready, a.k.a. Big Daddy. How can he be otherwise? He's a good cop gone mad.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
The film has the courage of its genre convictions. It doesn't have even a whiff of market testing. It does everything on its own terms, and in this age of McMansion movies, that's a super accomplishment.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Manohla Dargis
New York Times
Fast, periodically spit-funny and often grotesquely violent, the film at once embraces and satirizes contemporary action-film cliches with Tarantino-esque self-regard -- it's the latest in giggles-and-guts entertainment.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
Suggested subtitle: Iron Man, You Just Got Served.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Kyle Smith
New York Post
Prepare for amazement: This thing makes Nicolas Cage cool again.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
A mosh pit of a comic-book movie that dares you to dive into its anarchy.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Peter Howell
Toronto Star
The film is post-modern surgery into the superhero myth, driving a scalpel into the warped logic of misanthropic killers who masquerade as civic do-gooders.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
[It] thinks it's so brave and bold. But it's more like the title character, a dweeb who just thinks he's tough.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
If you're going to play this game, you have to keep doubling down. Kick-Ass can't. The fights never grow in complexity; halfway through, the director has nothing to add.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
It brings together several popular strains of contemporary moviemaking and combines them into one big, shameless, audacious, compulsively watchable, irresistibly likable piece of pure entertainment.
April 15, 2010 read full article
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Claudia Puig
USA Today
Peppering an action flick with comedy is hardly original, but the mocking tone and off-kilter vibe set this film apart. It even has a hearty dose of charm, thanks mostly to the most outrageous performance by a child in recent memory.
April 15, 2010 read full article
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Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
It soars, jet-propelled, on its central idea of matching a superhero's exploits with the grinding reality of urban teen life and on the aerodynamic smoothness of the film's style.
April 15, 2010 read full article
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Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
Kick-Ass stands as an intriguing fantasy of social networking. To achieve superhero status, you simply put up your own Web site, announce it on MySpace and Facebook and you're on your mythic way.
April 15, 2010 read full article
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Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
It's as if all the arguments about these hyper-violent films -- why they are so popular, what they have done to our culture -- are open for business in one convenient location.
April 15, 2010 read full article
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Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
Suggested subtitle: Iron Man, You Just Got Served.
April 16, 2010 read full article
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