Kick Ass, I forgot how enjoyable this film is. Kick Ass essentially laid the ground for Deadpool, I strongly believe without this film there wouldn't have been a Deadpool movie, it showed that comic book films can be extremely violent, quicky and have swearing every five seconds. Kick Ass is better than 90% of Marvel movies, largely because it stays completely true to the source material and isn't watered down so children can watch it.
Chloe Grace Moretz gives the standout performance of the whole movie as Hit-Girl and Nicholas Cage does a great Adam West impression as her father Big Daddy.
Aaron Taylor Johnson is also very good as kickass, who has all the tropes we recognize in a teenage superhero like Peter Parker, except, he's a bit of a dick, he still has some heroic moments though that land.
That's what i like best about this film, it is as much a satire of the superhero genre as it is a very good superhero film and the emotional moments have all weight to them. Its a perfect adaptation of the source material and in fact the few changes that are made to the narrative make it a better version of the story in the comic.
Overall, I highly recommend Kickass to anyone who's into comic book movies, its loads of fun.
Kick Ass 2 is film gets a lot of undue hate, not to say that it doesn't have problems because it does. It has one quite significant narrative decision that doesn't work for me at all but overall the film is loads of fun and a worthy sequel to the original.
The sequel to Kick Ass picks up precisely where the last film ended, the main plot follows the rise of supervillain "The Mother Fucker" and the new team of superheroes who have decided to follow in Kick Ass's footsteps and the B plot follows Hit Girl as she tries and fails to adjust to High School life, think mean girls with more violence.
Both plots work, however what doesn't work is the crush that Hit Girl has developed on Kick Ass. Chloe Grace Moretz was only twelve during the first film and is only fifteen here, Aaron Taylor Johnson is twenty two. There is absolutely no credible reason for them to have a kissing scene and its an example of Hollywood sexualising young actresses as soon as they can and I don't agree with it one bit.
Other than that, the film has the same quirkness, the same ultra-violence and is still loads of fun and feels like a solid continuation of the first film. It's a shame Kick Ass 3 and the Hit Girl spinoff were both cancelled, I'll definitely watch this film again at some point, hopefully we'll get a new sequel in the not too distant future.
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