KICK ASS… Dave Lizewski, AARON JOHNSON, is a New York schoolboy who lives with his widowed dad and whose main interests are comic books and beautiful classmate Katie, LYNDSEY FONSECA, who doesn’t know he exists. To impress her, Dave orders on-line a wet suit and becomes KICK-ASS, a superhero without powers….

Meanwhile crime boss Frank D’Amico, MARK STRONG, whose son, Chris, CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE, is a student at Dave’s school, is being threatened by a real superhero, Big Daddy, NICOLAS CAGE, who is training his 11-year-old daughter, Mindy, CHLOE GRACE MORTEZ, to be Hit Girl…

The latest in the seemingly endless line of superhero comic book movies relies more on character than on special effects, and it has a likeable hero in AARON JOHNSON’S diffident teenager.

The screenplay has some sharp comments to make about the meaning of heroics, and MATTHEW VAUGHN, who started out working with Guy Ritchie and who previously made LAYER CAKE and STARDUST, handles it all with confidence. But you have to keep reminding yourself that it’s ‘only a movie’ every time Hit Girl does her stuff- mega-violent action scenes of multiple killings obviously inspired by the early films of John Woo, starring CHOW YUN FAT (Woo is specifically referenced in the dialogue). These scenes are deliberately over-the-top and incredibly violent and the fact that an 11-year-old is doing the killing – shooting and stabbing bad guys – all of whom die very bloodily – will be understandably concerning for many.

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