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October 5, 2010 by Dave Knadler

Pretty tough for a 10-year-old.

So I watched Kick Ass last night. I know: It was released months ago and everybody’s already seen it. But that’s how I roll. I didn’t shell out for a big-screen TV and a Blu-Ray player so I could sit in a theater full of people fiddling with their phones. And don’t get me started about movie popcorn.

Short review: I liked it. Yeah, I totally get the controversy about having a 10-year-old girl curse like Dave Chappelle and kill more people than Stalin. And I’m not sure I care to see the same little girl getting shot, punched in the face and  hurled against a wall. But for what it is — a comic-book movie for adults — it’s pretty good. I rate it higher than any of the endless iterations of Batman.  I like the way it skewers the pretentiously serious comic-book movies while managing a witty script and engaging characters. I like the killer action sequences and I really like Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), even though I know that such a character pushes the envelope in a direction we really don’t want to go. It’s the Kill Bill direction: cute females deployed as killing machines, relying not on super-powers so much as a whole lot of handguns and edged weapons. Thanks for that, Quentin.

I hear there’s a sequel in the works, slated for 2012. By then Chloe Moretz will be 14 or 15 and a full-blown sex object in the Miley Cyrus mold, so I’m pretty sure this is the last Kick Ass movie I will see.  I’m a little squeamish about teenage sex objects.  Anyway, while I occasionally deign to check out a comic-book movie, I draw the line at comic-book movie sequels.

Still, by itself, Kick Ass is worth renting if you can suspend the feeling that its lethal, foul-mouthed young heroine further coarsens the culture. Me, I just remember walking past a schoolyard years ago and hearing younger girls use worse language. So I figure that train has left the station. You go, Hit Girl.

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About Dave Knadler

Obscure writer. Lazy photographer. Bashful guitarist. Perhaps too fond of wine. Tireless nemesis of New York Times crosswords, Wordle, Semantle and all other puzzles du jour.

Comments

  1. Ryan says

    October 5, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    Yet another movie on the list that I meant to see. It’ll likely just keep growing larger. God knows why I don’t just watch some of them.

  2. Dave Knadler says

    October 6, 2010 at 8:02 am

    Could be you have better things to do. Very few of these things are must-see.

  3. Ryan says

    October 26, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    I *am* in college after all.

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