Starring: Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz Plasse, Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, and Clark Duke
Directed By Matthew Vaughn
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In a memorable Fantastic Four comic (issue 285, to be precise) Johnny Storm nearly quits being the Human Torch after a young fan dies trying to emulate his fiery form. "Kick-Ass" is kind of the opposite of that story.
In place of guilt-ridden moralizing about the roles of heroes, "Kick-Ass," itself based on a more recent comic, instead offers up the taboo-busting shenanigans of Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comics geek who decides to become a crime-fighting vigilante. After getting his keister viciously beaten a few times, he becomes a YouTube sensation and draws the attention of Hit Girl (Chloë Moritz), a spunky 12-year-old who has been trained by her father (Nicolas Cage), who goes by Big Daddy, into a pint-sized death-dealing whirlwind. These two steal the show, with Moritz an emerging star and Cage continuing the renaissance he began with "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans."
The mixture of anarchic costumed fun and over-the-top bloody violence (exemplified when Hit Girl takes out a room of mobsters to the strains of the "Banana Splits" theme song) will be a real test for some audience members. If you're in on the joke, though, director Matthew Vaughn has provided an imperfect but still wickedly hilarious take on Mark Millar's deconstruction of superhero mythos.
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