Disturbing and completely unoriginal, yet thoroughly entertaining is Kick Ass. This movie, in Tarantino style, copies the first Spiderman movie almost shot for shot and set design for set design.
It is part of the realism genre of comics; like this could really happen without radioactive spiders and such, but Kick Ass fails miserably at this. The main character, Kick Ass, is beat up pretty bad and suffer nerve damage giving him a greater capacity for pain. So, basically, it is the same plot line as The Simpson’s where Homer becomes a boxer.
This is a movie that is NOT for kids, but every kid will want to see. The characters practically live in a kid universe, except when they have damage adults.
Still, the highly stylized violence, which is patterned after The Watchmen, gets disturbing when you a grown man beating up on an unconscious ten-year-old girl.
The last bit of violence is pattern after the Nick Cage, who is batman like father figure in the film, film The Rock. I think that might be an homage or something.
There the usual teenage romance, but much like Harry Potter you just go with it. There is a funny bit where Kick Ass gets the girl because she thinks he’s gay. Feel that tolerance!
Overall, I am not sure. Comic book fans will see it and like it, because it is so familiar. I am not sure about everyone else. I liked it.
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