Kick-AssA fine parody of superhero movies, Kick-Ass is especially notable because of Chloe's major role as the heroine, a happy yet tough, ass-kicking girl in a superhero costume.
Kick-Ass is not an easily forgettable film, for both positive and negative
reasons. Chloe makes a remarkable superhero-in-training as Hit-Girl. She's
tough, skilled, foul-mouthed, and cool. It's no wonder Chloe got a fair
amount of cult fame for the role.
The side of Kick-Ass that isn't easily palatable to me is the violence.
It's sad that the audience is, apparently, able to take it as comedy when a
little girl merrily slaughters the bad guys with guns, knives, spears, and
a number of other weapons, filmed quite realistically. (Your co-editor
Alex is among those who is ok with the depiction, and thinks the character
Marcus adequately represents the realistic, sensible objections one should
have to a little girl engaging in such violence.)
"Show's over, motherfuckers" The namesake of the movie is your average teenage guy who decides to be a
superhero. It's tragicomical throughout, and whatever he accomplishes is
only through stupid persistence and, in his own words, slightly elevated
capacity to take kicking. That is in sharp contrast with the superhero-like
ability of Hit-Girl, and her father Big-Daddy.
The comical treatment of the superhero theme sets the movie apart from the
average action or superhero movie. This is a big-budget adaptation of a
comic book, and a pretty well-liked one. Even though the violence is a
turn-off for me, and I found it frequently jarringly absurd that anyone
would take the atihero Kick-Ass seriously, it's still easy to recommend the
movie if only for Chloe.
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