![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/kick_ass_300.jpg\" "\\"Kick")
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(Yes, I know it’s a crap title for the post, but that’s in the spirit of the thing)<\/p>\n
It’s obvious that Hollywood’s on a comic book binge at the moment. Not only are the standards like Spider-Man<\/em> and Batman<\/em> coming out, but slightly less known titles are being picked up. Kick-Ass is a fascinating movie about a regular teenager who takes his comic book hobby a little too seriously and determines to be a real-life superhero.<\/p>\n Of course, things go pear-shaped when he gets mixed up with some professional vigilantes out for revenge on NYC’s biggest crime boss.<\/p>\n While the movie is about Kick-Ass’ own realisation of what it means to be a hero,Big Daddy and Hit Girl steal the show with their execution of a revenge tragedy. I found it particularly difficult not to be affected by the notion of a young girl who prefers butterfly knives to butterflies, and is more likely to drop the C-bomb than talk about her favourite dolls.<\/p>\n That being said, this is good news for those of us who like to see adaptations stay true to the source material. I would have been so easy for the movie studios to insist that a 12-year old cannot drive, kill a room full of grown men in graphic detail, let alone say “cunt” on screen. Judging from the Wikipedia synopsis of the book<\/a> and the film<\/a>, changes have been made, but only in the interest of keeping the film to an easy two hours or so.<\/p>\n For all the dramatic antiheroic tendencies of our heroes, there’s plenty of comedy to go round. Most of it is slapstick physical humour, like people blowing up in a giant industrial microwave (awesome) and references to a teddy-bear shaped nanny-cam, but it’s all well-timed and flawlessly delivered.<\/p>\n All in all, Kick-Ass<\/em> is a great mix of action, carnage, swearing, drama and laughs and I highly recommend it… though don’t take young kids, just because there’s a twelve year old in the cast. Hit Girl has the highest swear count from a character under fifteen in mainstream cinema since The Exorcist<\/em>‘s Regan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Yes, I know it’s a crap title for the post, but that’s in the spirit of the thing) It’s obvious that Hollywood’s on a comic book binge at the moment. Not only are the standards like Spider-Man and Batman coming out, but slightly less known titles are being picked up. Kick-Ass is a fascinating movie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[119,401,400,402],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-8D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/kickAss_300x600.jpg\" "\\"Kick-Ass")
The titular hero (played by Aaron Johnson<\/a>) develops from naive teenager to optimistic hero through a grueling set of eye-opening encounters with Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage<\/a>) and Hit Girl (Chlo\u00c3\u00ab Grace Moretz<\/a>), Big Daddy’s 12 year old daughter.<\/p>\n