"Kick Ass" (2010)

I know, it seems that it took me forever to watch a movie which seems to have the greatest title of all time.

I don't know maybe it was all the hype or summat or maybe the rediculously high DVD price when it first came out, but whatever the reason i have seen "Kick Ass" at long last.

If I had to be honest, I was rather disapointed, the movie was not quite what i was expecting, it probably had something to do with the way it was advertised, it made itself out to be the next "Superbad", but it was nothing like that.

The humour was very dark and i like dark humour but this was not that funny, thats was one of the main problems I had with this film, it really wasn't all that funny, there were funny moments but for me i wouldn't say this movie was halarious like how nearly all the critics said it was.

Although i did like the movie overall there were some nit picking flaws.

I also had a problem with the main character, when he is not dressed as kick ass he is a complete unlikable twat, at least until much later in the movie, when he is Kick ass he is funny and he makes sense and how he realises how horrible it is to be a super hero is well done, but when was out of costume, he annoyed me.

I also felt that certain things could have been developed in the movie, they could have shown more on Dave training to become a hero, they didn't show alot and on first viewing i assumed that he just jumped around and that was him, he said he did more, but why the fuck didn't they show us this.

The relationship between Dave and ..... that girl (I can't remember her name) could have also been developed more, as when they get together later on, yeah it is awesome that they get together but i would have liked to have seen a bit more developement so i could see why they got together. Also on a little side note, when Dave tells the girl that he is not gay and he is Kick Ass, she seems to take it rather well considering that he lied to her and also snuck into her house, but that is not really a major point.

The violence level, while it was awesome, my god, it went pretty damn far, there is an art to making gore funny, this movie may have gone a little too far with the gore and some of the jokes wound up being a bit over shaddowed by the gore.

The action scenes are very well filmed and very well put together, this would be the main reason to call this movie Kick Ass, because the action sequences are such a spectical you just wanna keep watching.

There are some moments which are rather funny like the joke about how the story of the movie was not a revenge story which I though was really funny or how Nick cage was acting like Adam West when he was dressed as Big Daddy.

The performaces are rather well done, the little girl does a pretty good job and it is rather funny when she starts swearing and Nick Cage was awesome.

So yeah, there were quite a few flaws with the movie I have to say, It wasn't all that funny in many places, there was some under development and the main character did annoy me quite a bit, but I woud say that the film is still worth checking out, but be warned it really isn't that great as far as i am concerned.

***/*****

Okay film but highly overrated.