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Kick-Ass (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) | 
 enlarge | Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-plasse, Chlo Grace Moretz
Studio: Lions Gate
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Rating:  190 reviews
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: 031398121381
UPC: 031398121381
EAN: 0031398121381
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 2010
Release Date: August 3, 2010
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"The irreverent action-comedy that is guaranteed to deliver laughs, thrills and no-holds-barred punches! “One of the most wildly entertaining, crowd-p
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The cinematic equivalent of a half case of Red Bull chased with donuts, Kick-Ass is a giddy, violent experience--and not your average superhero movie. Based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., it offers a set of heroes who are decidedly without superpowers: Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides he'll be just like a comic-book character, and puts on a ridiculous green suit to fight crime as the mysterious Kick-Ass. Luckily, somebody else had the same idea and comes along to rescue the incompetent crusader: Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and his daughter Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), who also happen to be running around town wearing masks and vanquishing evil. And here we have the movie's masterstroke: Hit Girl, a pint-sized preteen who slaughters bad guys and swears like a sailor on leave (and was the focus of a measure of controversy when the movie was released). The main target of our heroes is a gangster (Mark Strong, Sherlock Holmes), whose neglected son (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, McLovin from Superbad) figures he might just pull on a costume himself and become Red Mist! (One of the many funny things about Kick-Ass is that the superhero names are hopelessly lame.) Director Matthew Vaughn is operating at the same glib level as his Layer Cake, with cutesy song cues galore and a freewheeling appetite for cartoon violence. This means the movie's high wears off quickly, but it does get high--a crazy, hilarious (and by the way: decidedly R-rated) kick. All that, plus Nicolas Cage executes a deadly Adam West imitation when he pulls on his cape and cowl. That's entertainment. --Robert Horton
Stills from Kick-Ass (Click for larger image)
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 Great show! September 6, 2010
DiamondDave
This is a great movie. However, it is NOT for children or those easily offended. There is quite a bit of profanity and violence. It is funny, well-paced and somewhat intense, with graphic violence and sharp dialogue. Fans of Quenton Tarantino or the Coen brothers should appreciate this film.
TERRIFIC LITTLE GEM September 6, 2010
Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States)
Mixed reviews did not bode well for this terrific little gem that lives up to the graphic novel and delivers an unvarnished, unfiltered take on the whole super hero syndrome in life and art. Profane and violent, here's what happens when you don a mail-order wetsuit and set out to fight crime. It gets painful and bloody fast as certain death beckons. And then you are saved by Big Daddy and Hit Girl -- a disturbed comic artist father, and adolescent daughter who are fearless, crazier than you and superbly trained in lethal martial arts. Good and evil have their showdown in a satisfying battle that for once lives up to the title. No doubt there's meaning here, but I'm still working it out. Not for all tastes.
review of movie September 6, 2010
espnzoneboy
This movie was great all the way though, all of the extra features was also great, and putting the digtal copy on my notebook is great. No problems with anything. I would recommend this moive to people who are able to watch rated R movies that is.
 It doesn't live up to it's title September 6, 2010
B. Martin
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The problem that I have with Kick-Ass isn't that it is relentlessy violent (albeit in an over the top, almost cartoonish manner), overflowing with profanity or even that one of the main characters is an 11 year old girl who slices and dices crooks and bad guys with a child like sense of glee. No, what I found to be most disappointing about this big screen adaptation of the graphic novel (which I've never read) is that it is not as darkly funny, satirical, shocking or cool as it thinks it is. In fact, I was fairly bored with the majority of the movie. I guess I just don't get it.
Kick-Ass tells the story of Dave Lizewski, a typical teenager who thinks that it might be cool to become a costumed crime fighter. Dave tells us via voice over narration, that he doesn't have any real reason to carry out this plan other than it is a fantasy that he thinks would be fun to play out. He is not driven by any of the reasons that so frequently occur in comic books. He doesn't have the need to avenge the death of his parents, he wasn't exposed to any radioactive materials and he is not an angry outcast. As he tells us, he is pretty much a normal teenager.
That is certainly an interesting hook to build the movie around, and I had hope early on that this would make for an engrossing and unique film. But as it turns out, that is not the case. Don't get me wrong, Kick-Ass is certainly trying to provoke thought and discussion about subjects such as our youtube obsessed culture and how it can turn anyone into an overnight sensation, and the dangers of living in a fantasy world. But it just never sucks you into the comic book world it so meticulously creates.
The perils of severing ties with reality is illustrated in the movie by the presence of a father-daughter crime fighting duo known as Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage in a corny Bat-Man suit) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz). These two team up with Dave's newly created superhero, Kick-Ass, after they save him from being slaughtered by some very real, very dangerous bad guys. Cage's Big Daddy is a former cop who has turned his life into a comic book/video game where the goal is to take down the drug kingpin who framed him and sent him to prison which ultimately resulted in his wife's suicide. It seems that in order to cope with his grief and loss, Cage's character has created a fantasy world where he fights crime. One of the consequences of his break with reality is that he has pulled his daughter into the abyss with him, turning her into a vicious killing machine. Big Daddy has even written a comic book that chronicles the events that set him on his current path. Clearly he can't face the reality of what has happened to him.
The movie even casts a critical eye on its audience as well since it almost dares us to cheer Hit Girl on as she amasses an unfathomable body count. Have we become so desensitized to violence by comic books and video games (there is one fight scene in which Hit Girl takes out a team of gangsters while wearing night vision goggles that was very reminiscent of many first person shooter video games that I've played) that we have no problem accepting the scenario of a child committing heinous murders, or is it all just intended to be darkly humorous in the vein of a Quentin Tarantino movie?
The answer that I arrived at was that I didn't really care because the movie was not worth putting that much thought into. It is largely devoid of humor, true satirical bite and most importantly, entertainment value. In the end, it was not unlike many ultraviolent video games that I've played: noisy and forgettable.
Just for the fun of it September 5, 2010
Rick Goodner (Texas United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At long last a movie that lives up to it's name. I watched it back to back two times... stop reading and go watch this fun movie.
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