The best moment in this movie comes towards the end of the first act. Our titular hero, Kick-Ass, is poised over a man he doesn't know, ready to defend him from three armed thugs who attacked for reasons he doesn't know, while a group of people watch on the sidelines, making the recordings on their cell phones that will turn him into an overnight phenomenon. Sure, he has metal rods throughout his body making his bones hard to break, and nerve-ending damage making pain dulled for him (all the result of a previous beating), but really he's just an average kid. There is so much nobility and truth in this moment that I thought the movie had already firmly secured a 5 star rating and contention to be one of my favorites of the year.
Then, only a few minutes later, a little girl violently kills several people. Sure, they too are thugs and drug dealers, but, come on, it's a little girl! In fact, the vast majority of the surprisingly ultraviolent deaths in the movie are doled out by this pretty little girl. Something about this bothers me severely.
Everything else here is fun and funny. Aaron Johnson's performance as our main ass kicker is quite good. It's easy to believe in this guy, both as high school uber-geek and as crime fighting alter-ego, and the movie benefits greatly from this. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin) is also fun as the Red Mist. Over all I enjoyed this, but I just couldn't get over that adorable little girl, and all the blood she leaves on the walls.
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