Of the 4 vigilantes who's was your favorite storyline? Mine was probably Red Mist but I get the feeling most people liked the Big Daddy-Hit Girl perhaps more than Kick Ass's

By the end of the movie, I could really care less about Kick-Ass (he really didn't do anything, anyways) or Red Mist. I want to see an entire movie about Hit-Girl and Big Daddy.

Well I agree Kick Ass did get everything come his way, some of it I could believe though. I don't believe he would have got the metal plating, perhaps something similar, but if he did the doctors would have defiantly have told his father. Also lets not make it seem like girls are some ancient relic about as easy to obtain as the Ark of the Covenant. Besides put the things you don't think are realistic to the side and think about Spiderman. So anyway to make my opinion a bit more clear here are my likes and dislikes:Likes

1. Glossy film style; Rather than Gritty
2. Original characters, not parodies or supposed to have similarites (incredibles)
3. Well paced film that never sags or weakens when they take a break from a storyline (watchmen)
4. Good Soundtrack
5. Hit-Girl

Dislikes:

1. Daves friends (started out funny, soon got a bit annoying.)
2. Myspace being the only source of communication.
3. The fact that Big Daddy was for the most part a genuis, and a badass, but couldn't think up anything cooler than "Big Daddy"
4. For some reason Hit-Girl was in High School at the end of the movie
5. and Red Mists new mask looked like he could have got it at walmart.

Yes, I could probably think of some more, these are the ones that just make me wonder the most, the reason I said I liked Red Mists storyline was because it didn't market him as more of the "villan" so I was surprised and I actually got more interested in where it was going. Keep in mind though, the second half of the comic series hasn't even been published yet, so there is chance will get more villans. 

I agree with you, Bliss, about the whole Myspace thing. I agree with their choice on choosing a social networking site rather than a typical email but I think Myspace is really outdated and I think they should have went with Facebook. Then again, you have to have permission to use websites in your movies, although usually the websites will pay you to put them in there, so it could have been that Facebook wouldn't let them use it, or myspace paid more. Then again, maybe they just made a bad judgement call. Also, my biggest problem with "Big Daddy" wasn't the name he chose, but how he looked. According to the movie, he was locked up and hit the gym non-stop (what else is there to do in prison?). I think that he should have been just a little more built than he was in the movie. I'm not saying that he needed to be huge, just slightly noticeably muscular.

Whenever a film does something like this, they are clearly just trying for controversy-- and it only ends up lowering film-standards.

 If I hadn't read the comic, I would have probably enjoyed this film more.  The book is more grounded (still unbelievable, but no jet packs or gatling guns)  The Red Mist portion of the story is done as a twist (which would have been impossible with the casting, since CMP is ridiculously recognizable no matter what he's doing. Seriously, how did Kick Ass not say "oh, hey you're Da'Mico's kid, we go to school together and I see you at the comic shop all the time)The Big Daddy and Hit Girl backstory was much better (read: less cliche) in the comics.This isn't to say that Kick-Ass was a great comic, but it was good and most of the stuff people are complaining about (how well everything works out for Kick Ass) wasn't quite the case in the comic.But I did still enjoy the movie.  NickelCrew.net 

I haven't read the comics, but I really enjoyed this film. I think I agreed with everything that you said in your review, Red. I liked it for all the reasons mentioned there, and by others here. However, I don't think I disliked the film for any of the reasons that have been mentioned. I'll touch on a couple of random items and one LONG thought re: theme.Music - Since I saw the film, I've been listening nonstop to "Surface of the Sun" from Sunshine and "In the House - In a Heartbeat" from 28 Days Later. I was surprised to learn that much of the score is borrowed from the original scores of other films. Unusual, but effective. As Tina said, the music effectively set a tone. Some of the other songs were well chosen, too; for example, I laughed out loud at the irony of playing "A Few Dollars More (Per Qualche Dollaro en Piu)" when Hit Girl is standing at the door looking - incongruously - like a little schoolgirl. And hearing the "Banana Splits theme" and "Bad Reputation" during the penultimate fight scene was just plain awesome.Nicholas Cage - for once, he didn't bug me - he just entertained me. I really enjoyed his interpretation of the character - loved the affectations: the way he always said "child," and as Daniel mentioned, his Adam West inflection when in costume. Refreshing for me to like him in a film.Red Mist - I didn't know whether he would turn on his father and join Kick-Ass or turn out to be a villain in his own right. Whether it was CMP's portrayal or the writing or both, I didn't think his arc had a lot of strength by itself. (How does this compare to the comic?) But the character still adds to overall story.Theme: the more I thought about the film, the more I liked it (and I already liked it when I walked out of the theater). Honestly, I don't know if it was genius or accidental, but I saw a theme that affects each of the characters, and I believe also touches on some of the things that people have commented on. The theme is innocence and/or idealism, and its loss.Kick-Ass says that his decision to go through with the superhero thing had to do with "optimism, or naivete or both." (Or something close to that.) Even though other characters do steal the show, it's watching the world through K-A's eyes and seeing his transformation that made it interesting to me. His inaugural leap into superheroics isn't just naive, it's foolish, but even the results of that don't shake his idealism. Only when he realizes he would have died if not for Hit Girl's intervention, and watches her slicing through the enemy, do we see his awakening to the realities of life and death. The contrast between this 15-year old boy and 11-year-old girl is apparent, but K-A is "catching up" as the film progresses. I think we see him grieving the loss of innocence as he cleans his face after the hostage incident. In the end, Kick-Ass becomes a killer, too.Hit-Girl has never had a childhood - she lost her innocence long ago. I think the place where it shows the most isn't even in her ruthless bloodlust (which is as comical as it is disturbing), but in her farewell to her dying father. I agree with you Daniel, the internet hostage scene was my favorite too, but I actually found her reaction believable and in-character. I didn't like it, but it fit. She has never been a child - or even a well-adjusted person - so she can't break down and cry at her dad's death. Likewise, she scoffs at K-A's offer to come and live with his family. The humor and poignancy of her character is that in some way she is still a kid - but violence is her play.Big Daddy is an idealist cop, whose idealism was broken by D'Amico. BD resigns himself to the fact that the only way to stop the kingpin is to beat him at his own game, so BD becomes an all-out vigilante. He has the conviction of the righteous, but his methods reflect a shift in his character.Red Mist is, in a sense, a lot like Hit-Girl - they've both lost something growing up under the choices of their fathers. Consider the scene where he and his dad are blithely discussing what to order at the movies, while listening to the torture and execution of one of D'Amico's men. And RM wants to be in on his father's business, knowing full well what that is. The acting or the writing muddies the waters a little bit, but the sense of innocence lost is still there. I think a real twist to the overall theme would have been if RM had turned on his father, but that in its own way would have been predictable, too.I really enjoyed this movie, both for entertainment value and for the unexpected layers I saw in it.

This movie was wish-fulfillment, plain and simple. I don't think there is anyone on this website who hasn't seriously considered how awesome it would be to become a superhero, and we are exactly what this movie was targeted at. It's not for adults (or at least not adults of my parent's generation) and not for young kids, it's for that weird in-between age (22 in my case, but I'm probably never going to grow out of it) where yeah you probably ought to quit talking about Batman so much but you don't because you can't.This movie was perfectly named, because that's pretty much all it did. The plot hung by threads, characters didn't develop, they just ran around and kicked ass (or had their asses kicked). And for once, this didn't bother me. The comic relief kept me from demanding more than the movie could offer, and it just ended up being a lot of fun.In particular the music was extremely well done, I loved the Clint Eastwood homage in the lobby, the Banana Split theme for Hit Girl's first killing spree, and the Charge of the Mistmobile.I was reminded of HISHE because I saw Hit Girl and Big Daddy as parodies of Batman, with Kick-Ass being a comment on Spiderman, thus whenever they gave him shit I had flashbacks to Emo Peter Parker strutting past a certain coffee shop window.The rescue of Big Daddy and Kick-Ass was great, because you get such a strong sense of what it would actually look like if you were coming under attack from this crazy 11 year-old vortex of death. I agree that this was the true climax of the movie. While I recognize how people could be bothered by the 11 year-old girl committing all these extreme acts of violence (this is for you Roger Ebert), this movie is not the first, nor the worst portrayal of terrible deeds undertaken by children. The Exorcist comes to mind, along with a great many other horror movies (Pet Sematery, The Ring). Sometimes the world does terrible things to children, is it so objectionable that a child rises up and fights back in a movie?  I kind of wish they had done more with Red Mist, perhaps actually made him conflicted between his interest in becoming an actual superhero with friends like Kick-Ass, and his need to get his father's attention and affection. Still, that isn't what this movie was for. I loved his Joker quote at the end of the movie though, although I kind of wish he had done something other than don that stupid hockey mask. Perhaps the credits could have been him trying to emulate the Joker grin in the mirror, perfect his laugh like Dr. Horrible, or just start checking out the Rules for Evil Overlords (okay the first two ideas were better).I've rambled enough. This movie was a lot of fun.