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Kick-Ass (2010)

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Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 239
Fresh: 182 | Rotten: 57

Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the comic adaptation genre to new levels of visual style, bloody violence, and gleeful profanity.

Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 13

Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the comic adaptation genre to new levels of visual style, bloody violence, and gleeful profanity.

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Adapted from Mark Millar's hyper-violent comic book of the same name, director Matthew Vaughn's (Layer Cake) vigilante superhero film tells the tale of an average New York teenager who decides to don a costume and fight crime. Comic book geek Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) may not have good coordination or special powers, but that doesn't mean he isn't a fully capable crime fighter. After purchasing a flashy wet suit on the Internet, Dave starts busting up baddies with nothing but brute force. He

R, 1 hr. 53 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Comedy

Directed By: Matthew Vaughn

In Theaters: Apr 16, 2010 Wide

On DVD: Aug 3, 2010

Box Office:$20.0M

Lionsgate

Kick-Ass Trailer & Photos

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Cast

Aaron Johnson
Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass
Nicolas Cage
Damon Macready/Big Dadd...
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Chris D'Amico/Red Mist
Mark Strong
Frank D'Amico
Chloe Moretz
Mindy Macready/Hit Girl
Omari Hardwick
Sgt. Marcus Williams
Xander Berkeley
Det. Gigante
Michael Rispoli
Big Joe
Clark Duke
Marty
Lyndsy Fonseca
Katie Deauxma
Evan Peters
Todd
Dexter Fletcher
Cody
Corey Johnson
Sporty Goon
Jason Flemyng
Lobby Goon
Kenneth Simmons
Scary Goon
Randall Batinkoff
Tre Fernandez
Garrett M. Brown
Mr. Lizewski
Elizabeth McGovern
Mrs. Lizewski
Deborah Twiss
Mrs. Zane
Sophie Wu
Erika Cho
Anthony Desio
Baby Goon
Adrian Martinez
Ginger Goon
Joe Bacino
Posh Goon
Stu "Large" Riley
Huge Goon
Walle Jobara
Nervous Goon
Carlos Besse Peres
Buttons
Tamer Hassan
Matthew
Yancy Butler
Angie D'Amico
Tim Plester
Danil
Hubert Boorder
Oscar Juarez
Craig Ferguson
Himself
Omar Soriano
Leroy
Kofi Natei
Rosul
Johnny Hopkins
1st Gang Kid
Ohene Cornelius
2nd Gang Kid
Russell Bentley
Medic
Christopher McGuire
Diner Fight Guy 1
Max White
Diner Fight Guy 2
Dean Copkov
Diner Fight Guy 3
Jacob Cartwright
Running Teenager
Maurice DuBois
News Anchor
Dana Tyler
News Anchor
Dan Duran
Reporter
Louis Young
Breaking News Reporter
Katrena Rochell
Female Junkie
Harley Quinn Smith
Big Mean Boy

Critic Reviews for Kick-Ass

All Critics (241) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (188) | Rotten (58) | DVD (15)

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

May 6, 2011 Full Review Source: Film.com

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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 Source: Christian Science Monitor

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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 Source: At the Movies

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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 Source: New Yorker

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Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.

April 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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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 Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

... 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 Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Defiantly irreverent and gleefully violent.

April 5, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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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 Source: What Culture

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Mike Edwards

What Culture Source: What Culture

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

January 31, 2011 Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife

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Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife Source: 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 Source: Bangitout.com

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Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

Kick-Ass es probablemente una de las pel�culas de superh�roes m�s originales y divertidas que se hayan hecho.

December 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total

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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 Source: Quickflix

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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 Source: SFX Magazine

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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 Source: The Standard

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Matt Neal

The Standard Source: 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 Source: Window to the Movies

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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 Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

It admires these heroes, invests in their story and asks us to pull for them with all our might. But it also deconstructs them, pities them, and wonders aloud why any of us would form an attachment to them.

August 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

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Rob Vaux

Sci-Fi Movie Page Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page

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Full of action, humor, spunk, I laughed i cried, i was like holy shit. This was full bore action with dark humor. Chloe Moretz is just awesome as Hit Girl. I mean just brilliant.

May 9, 2010

John Manard

Super Reviewer

I am almost certain that Kick Ass will become a cult classic in a few years time because of it's unique visual style and it's courage to keep an open mind but I was very pleased to see the comic book genre broadening to indie territory and Kick Ass is leading the pack. Interestingly it's a moving film but not in the

April 13, 2012

Directors Cat

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Kick-Ass Quotes

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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 (6 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 (51 days ago)
1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Dude, that is one gay looking taser!
– Submitted by Shane C (4 months ago)
1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Okay, you cunts. Let's see what you can do.
– Submitted by Michael C (4 months ago)
1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Show's over, Motherfuckers.
– Submitted by R?o?d?r?i?g?o? R (5 months ago)

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