So I love my movies and this is one that has leapt out from under a stone!! Did’nt hear anything of it until just a couple of weeks ago and yet it is being pitched as a mighty beast of movie that is being hailed an “epic” already!!!
What makes this so much fun and ultimately so interesting to watch is that the main character is a mere mortal, a life transformed with the dream of being something more, so much more….
After a brutal ass-kicking on his first attempt our plucky hero through sheer determination and a lot of life-saving medical help becomes the urban knight in shining armour “Kick-Ass”.
It is at this point, if you hadn’t already realised that this film’s action is glued masterfully together with side-splitting comedy!!
I have just watched and thoroughly enjoyed Kick-Ass and you have to admit it stirs up a little adrenaline within you, thankfully most of us know where fiction meets fact!!
Humorous acknowledgments to Superman, Spiderman, Batman and the like are also expertly thrown into the mix, gently satirising the genre while at the same time paying tribute to what has gone before in the comic cannon.
Combine that with some hilarious interplay between D’Amico and his gang of hoods, and you’ve got some of the most smart, sophisticated and downright hilarious dialogue yet written for a superhero flick.
For that very reason, Kick-Ass is as good a superhero movie as has yet been made—storytelling of the very highest order, crafted by experts who know, love and treat the subject matter with the respect it deserves.
The result is utterly compelling from start-to-finish; an adaptation that perfectly captures the anarchic nature of the comic while at the same time eliciting unexpected emotions from a film about a crime-fighting kid in a wet-suit…… what are you waiting for the world needs you at a cinema near you!!!