Kick Ass!

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KickAss: Not your ordinary Superhero.

When I first saw the trailer of this movie, I thought it was another of those lame and comical superhero-wanna-be movies like Superhero (with a character basing himself from a Dragonfly)... But this attitude of mine which disregards movies I don’t think i'd like, but when I end up watching them would prove me wrong to the point I didn’t expect I would even write a movie review about it!

Yes, KickAss was that worth it.

I’m a bit frenetic at myself right now for having to doubt this movie at first. But I would never really know how good it was until I watched it. I just kept on hearing good comments about it so I finally got myself one of those pirated copies one (‘coz like I said, I didn’t really think it was good so I didn’t wanna pay for it in the cinema). But just after 10 minutes of watching it, I paused for a moment and got myself munchies because I know I was going to sit on the movie ‘til the end of it.

KickAss is a movie based on a comic book of the same title. I haven’t heard of it going mainstream (and I don’t think many has) but given now that it has become a major motion film, the story of Dave Lizewski (played by Aaron Johnson), the unnoticeable high school comic book fanatic/ nobody who gets mugged every week by the same punks who are lamer than his set of friends and wonders how come of all the many people who likes superhero stories never really want to be ONE. As Dave’s friend Marty (Clark Duke) answers, that’s because they either “psychotic or they’d just get their ass kicked”. And true enough during that normal day diner conversation of theirs, the only superheroes who can be are the ones who has super muscles or someone like Bruce Wayne (Batman) who has that lot of money to fund the superhero stuff he has.

But despite that, Dave purchases a green wetsuit over the internet and becomes a superhero he dreams of… well, sort of.

Superhero Crashcourse #1: Getting self esteem by looking at yourself in the mirror
while wearing a green wetsuit.

As KickAss walks the street and obviously gets odd stares from the people, one good ass kicking moment caught on video made him the instant hero. His agonizing beating made him known all over the news ‘til such time he becomes the new face in your local comic books. But since KickAss/ Dave doesn’t possess any amazing super human abilities (well except for being invisible to girls)— and not even a set of basic defense skills—gets him into trouble he only imagined in the comic books stories.

The movie isn’t that all funny nor full of action scenes that will keep you at the edge of your seat. It’s just a movie with the right element of plot, characters, and a good set of optimism and naivety that made the geek in the mask worth watching.

Together with Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), the story was even more heart breaking that the moments KickAss got mistaken as a gay by the girl he has a major crush on (and not to mention his body being covered in metal after getting heavily beat up). It was Big Daddy and Hit Girl's story that added more touch and color to the movie and showed that normal people can be superheroes— and I mean literally, with the whole mask and all— and beat the crap out of the bad guys just by having the right set of training, sucking up the responsibility, and having a "slightly elevated capacity to take a kicking", will make one fit enough to wear a costume and rock it!

Sweet little Mindy is the 11-year old Vigilante "Hit Girl" by night.

KickAss is your ordinary yet not ordinary superhero movie (confusing right?) but he rocks it and you’ll get what I’m saying when you watch it. Recommended enough to watch during those slow and hot summer afternoons with a bag of junk foods, a cool drink and a combat knife.. just to keep you safe.:D

Oh and did I mention Aaron Johnson is such a cutie?!

*Rating: 5/5