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Kick-Ass Let’s
see: An eleven-year-old girl uses
the F-word, and even the C-word – I guess that should be C-words. Is it funny to see an eleven-year-old
using those words? Well, maybe
the first time, and maybe if “Kick-Ass” was, say, a parody, or at
least funnier than it is. But
this film, which I’ll assume started out as a parody of some sort,
perhaps of the comic book it’s taken from, is built in part around an
11-year-old girl named Hit Girl, otherwise known as Mindy – played by
then-11-year-old Chloe Grace Moretz, who as Hit
Girl manages to kill almost as many bad guys as Uma
Thurman does in “Kill Bill.” “Kick-Ass”
is the latest in a series of R-rated films, and they are definitely R-rated,
for language and violence that have been made from comic books. In this case, a high-school nerd named
Dave, who can’t even get a girl to look at him, decides to be a
superhero named Kick-Ass, and bring justice to the city. But of course he gets beat up for his
troubles. Meanwhile, Mindy or
Hit-Girl is being raised by her widowed father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) in
an apartment whose wall decor is nothing but pistols and semi-automatic
rifles. We meet them when her
father wants to test a new Kevlar vest and shoots Mindy to see how it
works. It works, or else we
wouldn’t have a movie. Is
this funny? Maybe it’s me,
but It gets worse. Hit Girl and
Kick Ass end up pursuing an evil man named Frank D’Amico, played by
Mark Strong, the actor who was the only good thing about “Sherlock
Holmes.” But on the way to
get him they torch his warehouse, immolating about twenty-five of his men and
shooting the rest, then Hit Girl and Kick-Ass attack Strong in his office
tower and kill another twenty-five of his men while hardly getting
scratched. Well, that’s not
quite true; Kick-Ass does get beaten around a bit, and so does Hit-Girl. Did I leave anything out? Yes, how could I forget? You can watch Big Daddy getting burned
to death, on screen, and if you will promise me that you won’t ever see
this film, I can tell you that the big ending is that the evil Mark Strong is
propelled out across Manhattan at the end of the film by means of a bazooka
shell. I don’t kid about
things like this. |