Kick-Ass (2010)

All Critics (242) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (189) | Rotten (58) | DVD (15)

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

May 6, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Laremy Legel

Film.com

Top Critic

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

April 23, 2010 Full Review | Comments (17)

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

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

April 19, 2010 Full Review | Comments (121)

A.O. Scott

At the Movies

Top Critic

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?

April 19, 2010 Full Review | Comments (82)

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.

April 16, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

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.

April 16, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Fast, funny, and a hell of a lot of fun, Vaughn's film does, indeed, live up to the brash punch of its title.

June 2, 2012 Full Review | Comment

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

... It feels fresh, with an edge about it that allows you to think anything can happen to any character at any time.

November 5, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Defiantly irreverent and gleefully violent.

April 5, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

The movie just decided that thoughtlessness and splatter was its own reward. I'm okay with that.

April 4, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Dave White

Movies.com

Never has a title been so true, so funny, and so simple as that of Kick-Ass.

February 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

Kick-Ass is so refreshingly iconoclastic, it's a wonder it was made at all.

January 31, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife

Kick-Ass is such an exciting, refreshing development in comic book filmmaking that I want to shout it from the rooftops

January 10, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

Kick-Ass es probablemente una de las películas de superhéroes más originales y divertidas que se hayan hecho.

December 2, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

Kick Ass is about as exciting as movies get. Not just because it is a (mostly) anarchic splatter-fest that celebrates (nay, encourages) acts of ridiculous violence, but also the fact that it was made completely outside of the studio system.

October 21, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Taking a classic American template and bringing it bang up to date for the internet age, this is a movie that's slugged it out with Hollywood heavyweights like Iron Man 2, and beaten them at their own game.

September 3, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Ian Berriman

SFX Magazine

The humour certainly pushes the boundaries, as much of it comes from dark places, but, believe it or not, it's hard not to laugh when an 11-year-old massacres a room full of baddies to the tune of The Banana Splits Theme.

August 17, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Matt Neal

The Standard

A bait-and-switch movie that lucks out because its switch is so much more appealing than its bait.

August 13, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

Your appreciation will depend in how much you can appreciate it's utter wrongness as a twisted virtue.

August 11, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

• 1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Daddy I'm scared.
  2. Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Come on Mindy, honey, be a big girl now. There's nothing to be afraid of.
  3. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Is it gunna hurt bad?
  4. Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Ah child, only for a second sugar. A hand gun bullet travels at more than...
  5. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: ...seven hundred miles an hour.
  6. Damon Macready/Big Daddy: ...seven hundred miles an hour. So at close range like this the force is going to take you off your feet for sure, but its really no more painful than a punch in the chest.
  7. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: I hate getting punched in the chest.
  8. Damon Macready/Big Daddy: You're gunna be fine baby doll [shoots her]
  – Submitted by Kelsey K (2 days ago)
• 1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Did you see the clip? He's actually pretty good.
  2. Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Yeah, good at getting he ass kicked. His name should be Ass Kick instead [laugh]
  3. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: That doesn't make any sense.
  – Submitted by Kelsey K (2 days ago)
• 1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: She has many world-wide slang words which can make this movie alive. The using of cunt,cock,pussy and other combined with the humour of its story make it interesting.
  – Submitted by Rendy D (24 days ago)
• 1. Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass: No doubt about it, I got to get another hat. The most I'd ever had to offer the world was good intentions and a slightly-elevated capacity to take a kicking. With no power comes no responsibility. Except that wasn't true.
  – Submitted by Cheyne L (2 months ago)
• 1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Dude, that is one gay looking taser!
  – Submitted by Shane C (4 months ago)