Find one review that doesn't say that Hit Girl steals the show. She gets the best scenes, and actually complicates the plot... So, I guess you don't have to pass on Kick-Ass.

| Dec 23, 2020

The plot doesn't add up to much, but doesn't have to, as this is a film defined by its high-energy, go-for-it-whatever, convention-toppling spirit.

| Aug 30, 2018

f you're one of the many nerdy high school boys plagued with unpopularity and pimples, you'll adore the underdog story of Kick-Ass. But if you're one of the rest of us, you probably won't.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 11, 2017

Most of the lessons in Kick-Ass are juvenile, but Lordy are they stylishly told.

| Original Score: A | May 6, 2011

Forget Thor, Captain America, or anyone else the superhero movie craze has coming our way; I want more Kick-Ass!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2010

This movie made me feel old and out of touch in a way I can't quite describe, and while I can't imagine that was Vaughn's ultimate goal if it was to say he succeeded would be super-powered understatement.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2010

I found it mighty painful sitting through all the bone crushing and blood-letting.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 23, 2010

I know it's all supposed to be tongue in cheek and lots of fun, but frankly this turned my stomach.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2010

When filmmakers nudge a child into viewing savagery as slapstick, are we not allowing them to do what we condemn in the pornographer -- that is, to coarsen and inflame?

| Apr 19, 2010

Kick-Ass is ultra-funny, ultra-silly and ultra-geeky, but what Kick-Ass mostly is, is monumentally cool - this is the film the kids will be swearing about.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 18, 2010

With a half dozen superhero movies every year that feel as if they were created by a Hollywood blockbuster machine, it's so refreshing to see one with its own distinct, subversive personality.

| Apr 16, 2010

Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2010

Everything you've likely heard about Kick-Ass is true, providing you've heard it's profane, outlandish, ultra-violent, shocking, funny and wildly entertaining.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 16, 2010

Nicolas Cage is a hoot, a hollar and a fright as Damon Mac ready, a.k.a. Big Daddy. How can he be otherwise? He's a good cop gone mad.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 16, 2010

While it's by no means a perfect movie, it often feels like the purest distillation of adolescent male power fantasies ever portrayed on screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 16, 2010

The film has the courage of its genre convictions. It doesn't have even a whiff of market testing. It does everything on its own terms, and in this age of McMansion movies, that's a super accomplishment.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 16, 2010

Fast, periodically spit-funny and often grotesquely violent, the film at once embraces and satirizes contemporary action-film clichés with Tarantino-esque self-regard -- it's the latest in giggles-and-guts entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 16, 2010

Here, the power is an extra dose of the hallmarks of adolescence-an affect of ennui about everything but smashing through limits and a sense of irony about everything but sex.

| Original Score: B | Apr 16, 2010

Suggested subtitle: Iron Man, You Just Got Served.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2010

Prepare for amazement: This thing makes Nicolas Cage cool again.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 16, 2010