Kick Ass Movie Review

Rating-1/5 stars

I really wanted to like this movie. I really, really did. I have the hardover addition of the comic book, which I cosider to be one of the best graphic novels in the last ten years. The trailers were so promising!! We were promised a violent, darkly humorous action movie. Instead we got a Tarantino wannabe with ridiculous subplots and an insane runtime. The graphic novel is great because it really is realistic, the only exception being the awesome Hot Girl. The movie starts pretty much like that, and then takes a turn on fourth and bananas and there are people who get tased in the face who get right back up, a mob boss who can do kung fu, and a freaking jet pack even. The whole movie is just totally unbelievable. One minute, the hottest girl at school thinks Kick Ass is her gay best bud, and literally 10 minutes later they're making out in parking lots. None of the action scenes feel threatning at all, and the animated blood looks absolutely awful. Ok, I don't want to go on a tirade here, so I'll say what I believe are the two main things of why this movie totally sucks. While the graphic novel had brilliant writing and awesome art, the movie has really bad stylization and terrible, terrible writing. The graphic novel made fun of nerds and showed how pathetic they can get, but at the same time praised them their fantasies. Because it is true, everyone has wanted to be a superhero. However the movie is a plodding, badly written, and rather creepy and perverted mess. The only redeeming quality is Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl. She is the only thing in Kick Ass that kicks ass. Overall, when I left the theater, I did not feel like the film had kicked my ass with awesomeness. I felt like this movie had come up to me, taken my money and my stuff, and punched me straight in the face.