(Unless you don't like extreme and continuous but cartoonish violence.)
Forget James Bond, Batman and Arnie. Forget even Jason Bourne. There's a new and unbeatable action hero in town. It's not even Kick Ass, it's his 11 year-old nemesis Hit Girl. This movie is worth seeing for her antics alone, as she takes on roomfulls of mafiosi, and they don't win.
KA is a black comedy John Woo meets the Matrix meets teenage high school rom com meets coming of age movie. It simultaneously honours and takes the piss out of the superhero genre.
It's really funny, if you like your gags, um dark. Violence occurs throughout the movie, but, though frequent, it all has a cartoonish flavour. Still there will be calls to ban it or it will be blamed for the next untoward event on the streets. On the whole it fits in with the absurdist and ironically comic feel of the whole thing.
Best of all for me is the use of music. Not since Clockwork Orange has a score been thought out so ironically. The Banana Splits song over a mass killing? But wait for Elvis when Kick Ass appears at the last minute to save Hit Girl. Not gonna spoil it by naming the track. Let's just say it is an iconic American patriotic ditty.
If you are not a wincer, go and see this movie now.
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