sammi says

Simply put, "Kick-Ass" kicked ass.

I wasn't thrilled by the trailers leading up to the release of the movie but it got an 80% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes so I figured I'd give it a go. I didn't really know what to expect, is it an action movie? Is it a comedy? Turns out, it was a healthy mixture of both.

The premise...Dave (Aaron Johnson), a comic book-loving high schooler who is mugged frequently, decides to take matters into his own hands and become a superhero despite his lack of superhuman strength, the ability to fly, or any kind of power other than a high tolerance for pain. He orders a scuba diving suit and transforms himself into Kick-Ass. He becomes a YouTube sensation and finds out that he's not the only civilian to take matters into his own hands. He encounters the father-daughter duo of Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) along with the dorky Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

Sounds pretty funny, right? It is hilarious but is also the most graphically violent movie I have ever seen. No kidding.

I'm not really into super violent movies but I didn't find the violence as disturbing as it probably should have been. It's done in such a ridiculous, tongue in cheek way that I was mostly able to laugh rather than cringe in horror. The goriest violence is perpetrated by the foul-mouthed, ten-year-old Hit Girl. She's not invincible and takes a beating a few times which should be really disconcerting, but again, you're able to suspend disbelief and just go with it. There's a lot of blood, limbs are chopped off, people are blown up and set on fire. I'm really not joking about the violence. But lucky for us, the comedy is strong enough to balance the movie.

Definitely go see the movie but be prepared for brutal violence and lots of laughs.