Posts from January 11th, 2011

Let’s kick it

Kick-Ass is a movie about horrifying things: a deranged man teaching his pre-pubescent daughter to be a murderer; a teenager getting stabbed, hit by a car, having multiple surgeries and going through painstaking physical therapy; a cruel gangster using his son as bait to lure his deadly enemies; a girl watching her father be burned to death. And it’s all presented as a rollicking, wacky, almost feel-good comedy. And somehow it works. [Read my full review]