Where to even begin? Kick-Ass has been a highly anticipated project around the Internet blogospheres and fan-boy kingdoms. And it will come as little surprise that the final product is right up their alley as it mixes smart visuals, foul-mouths, caped crusaders, squirting blood, controlled fight scenes, hot girls, fan-boys, pop culture references, out-of-control fight scenes, and comedy into an almost inescapably entertaining and jaw-dropping 2 hours. It is no exaggeration that even before the credits roll it would be a pleasure for the movie to restart itself.
Matthew Vaughn heads back to the arena from which his debut feature, the fantastically stylish and awesome L4yer Cake, hails, and returns with an even more fantastically stylish and awesome film cut from the pages of a comic book. Vaughn wrote the script concurrently with the comic writer Mark Millar, who pitched the idea. In what is certainly a regretted mistake, Sony passed on the film forcing Vaughn to finance the film on his own. It has since made back its $30 million budget in just over a week and word on the street is that it rocks.
It would be a simple task, if unnecessary, to freeze frame the entire film and recompose to form an accompanying graphic novel. Vaughn stations the frame about, making transitions weave in and out of one another and making their presence known only when they desire. He lets the visual landscape provide
