Kick-Ass
Posted by martinteller on February 22, 2011
Not as terrible as I’d feared. As in Stardust, Matthew Vaughn applies a tongue-in-cheek approach to a genre, with mixed results. The all-too-obvious cultural references got tiresome fast, as if Vaughn (or the original comic, I dunno) was trying to be Tarantino but didn’t have as deep a well to draw from. It’s often too tongue-in-cheek… although I do prefer my superhero movies not to take themselves so damn seriously, this one is a little high on the “nudge nudge wink wink” meter. However, I had more fun with it than I expected to, and there is something compellingly disturbing about a little girl exacting homicidal carnage on a room full of bad guys. The movie needs to figure out what it’s trying to say, but on a purely entertainment level it’s not bad. Rating: 7
