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Featuring: Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloë Grace Moretz
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Product Description
"The irreverent action-comedy that is guaranteed to deliver laughs, thrills and no-holds-barred punches! “One of the most wildly entertaining, crowd-p
Summary
The cinematic equivalent of a half case of Red Bull chased with donuts, Kick-Ass is a giddy, violent experience--and not your average superhero movie. Based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., it offers a set of heroes who are decidedly without superpowers: Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides he'll be just like a comic-book character, and puts on a ridiculous green suit to fight crime as the mysterious Kick-Ass. Luckily, somebody else had the same idea and comes along to rescue the incompetent crusader: Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and his daughter Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), who also happen to be running around town wearing masks and vanquishing evil. And here we have the movie's masterstroke: Hit Girl, a pint-sized preteen who slaughters bad guys and swears like a sailor on leave (and was the focus of a measure of controversy when the movie was released). The main target of our heroes is a gangster (Mark Strong, Sherlock Holmes), whose neglected son (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, McLovin from Superbad) figures he might just pull on a costume himself and become⦠Red Mist! (One of the many funny things about Kick-Ass is that the superhero names are hopelessly lame.) Director Matthew Vaughn is operating at the same glib level as his Layer Cake, with cutesy song cues galore and a freewheeling appetite for cartoon violence. This means the movie's high wears off quickly, but it does get high--a crazy, hilarious (and by the way: decidedly R-rated) kick. All that, plus Nicolas Cage executes a deadly Adam West imitation when he pulls on his cape and cowl. That's entertainment. --Robert Horton Stills from Kick-Ass (Click for larger image)
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I'll keep this brief (starving right now).
Kick-Ass is an energetic, funny, and unique satire of the superhero genre. If you get offended by Kill-Bill type action scenes or 11 year olds cursing or anything that is generally R-rated, don't watch this movie (and please stop posting reviews).
Here I come, chinese food!"
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M. Jaffar,
Philly, PA
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Ok, I liked this film, I don't know why people said it was really funny. It had some slapstick humor but the characters of the super hero were all very good except red-mist who really wasn't a super hero but just a phony wanna be. Towards the end, the film makes you want it to end. Great first half, Nicholas Cage kind of redeemed himself but he really is a bigger actor than all these films he's done recently. What happened to the man who made Leaving Las Vegas? I understand there's an age for everything but I'm happy he's bouncing back and this is definitely a step in the positive direction for him. My favourite thing about the film was the little girl with the cool purple hair, her attitude was amazing. She reminded me of the little sister to the main character in 500 days of summer. The stand-out feature is that the film is not one percent cheesy surprisingly. It is not very very funny unless you found Superbad the funniest film of all time. Slightly geeky and indie but overall a little over-rated. Definitely worth watching, exceeded my expectations but still, I'm not watching the correct films this year."
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Harkanwar Anand,
New York, New York
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Very entertaining movie. Great plot, acting, and action. Complaints about language and violence are greatly exaggerated, but it is not suitable for young children. Highly recommend this movie."
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very surprised by this movie.i loved it.i am yet to see a nicholas cage movie i dont like
heaps of action and laughter"
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Danny W. Holmes,
australia
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MILD SPOILERS
...And that line was spoken by the eleven year old superheroine of this film. KICK-ASS is a cornball classic that is definitely headed for a kind of immortality as a camp set-up of BATMAN and SPIDER-MAN. It's the story of ordinary Dave Lizewsky of Queens NY, who one day decides to take up the job of local superhero for lack of any other ambitions.
Dave has problems being a superhero. Unlike Peter Parker/Spider-Man he has no unnatural super powers (except "being invisible to girls"); he lacks the technological skills of Tony Stark/Ironman; and he has no millions to spend on creating a persona like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Instead, he buys a lime green wetsuit and mask from a sporting goods store, arms himself with a couple of wooden batons which he can barely hold, and names himself "Kick-Ass." He's strictly a bargain-bin superhero.
His first "assignment" is to rescue a cat ("Mr. Bitey") from a tree; he falls out and concusses himself. In his second assignment he tries to stop two punks from breaking into a car. They throw him a beating and stab him in the gut. While he's crawling away from the fight he gets struck by a hit and run driver.
The run-down is serendipitous. Rendered largely neuropathic from the accident, he feels little pain, and most of his bones are replaced with titanium plates and rods. When he recovers, he goes back to getting a beating for crime, this time trying to break up a street fight. It's a draw, but someone posts the video online, and overnight, Kick-Ass becomes a folk hero for tryng to save the victim.
What nobody knows is that two real superheroes, "Big Daddy" (in a Batman-like costume) and his sass-mouthed, weapons-qualified preteen daughter "Hit Girl" (think a four-foot Robin with purple hair) are actually terrorizing a gang of mobsters.
In the meantime, Kick-Ass is reveling in his fame and enjoying his sweet new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that the mobsters think he is the superhero who has been tormenting them. They try to lure him out by baiting him with a possible sidekick "Red Mist" (the superheroic names in this movie are intentionally lame), and this leads to the grand battle between Kick-Ass, Big Daddy, and Hit Girl on one side and Red Mist and the mobsters on the other.
By far the best character is not Kick-Ass himself, but Hit Girl. One 17 year old character announces his plan to save himself for her; a reviewer says he wants to adopt her. Noble sentiments all."
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J. H. Minde,
Boca Raton, Florida and Brooklyn, New York
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AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
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UPC/EAN:
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031398121381
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0031398121381
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Audience Rating:
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R (Restricted)
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Region Code:
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Region
1
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Run Time:
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117 minutes
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Aspect Ratio:
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2.35:1
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Dimensions:
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6.70 x 5.40 x 0.50 inches
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Weight:
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0.35 pounds
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