Fresh
Most of the lessons in Kick-Ass are juvenile, but Lordy are they stylishly told.
Laremy Legel, Film.com
Overview
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Director and cast
- Matthew Vaughn Director
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Hit Girl / Mindy Macready
- Nicolas Cage as Damon Macready / Big Daddy
- Lyndsy Fonseca as Katie Deauxma
- Mark Strong as Frank D'Amico
- Omari Hardwick as Marcus
- Deborah Twiss as Mrs. Zane
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris D'Amico / Red Mist
- Xander Berkeley Cast
- Elizabeth McGovern Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Rotten
I found it mighty painful sitting through all the bone crushing and blood-letting.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
I know it's all supposed to be tongue in cheek and lots of fun, but frankly this turned my stomach.
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
Rotten
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?
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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