*May be Spoilers*

Kick-Ass is a film about a high school student who decides to become a super-hero. So the general jist of it is, kid reads comic books. Kid tries to beat up a pair of dudes, kid gets shit kicked out of him. Kid tries again but this time he does it to a bunch of bigger guys and actually wins. Kinda.

The story behind kick-ass is no more complicated than it’s title. This obviously isn’t a film to make you sit around and try to work out what is going on,  it is very straight forward. It contains like most films of this type not so subtle inklings about how we all suck because no one cares about each other. That always annoys me, I just wanted to see a 12 year old girl kick some ass. I don’t need a lesson in why I suck as a person at the same time.

The main guy seemed a little weak, most of his dialog seemed to be in the narrative which I suppose follows along the lines of most super hero movies. There was very little action involving him and most of the good stuff was done by Nick and Chloe (Big Daddy and Hit Girl). McLovin made an appearance but was unable to shake his McLovin status with this less than iconic character. There was also the huge “M” stuck to his chest for 3/4 of the film which basically just made me think that he was McLovin out on Halloween. Mark Strong however remained strong in his performance as the “bad guy”, I have been impressed by his performance in both this, Stardust and Sherlock Holmes.

Although the story wasn’t thrilling the action wasn’t half bad, a lot of this cut action fight scene stuff which a friend of mine didn’t really like. I can see why people have described the film as a mixture of Spider-man and Kill Bill. I laughed my ass off during most of the combat scenes but when it comes to stuff like this I’m pretty easily pleased. This film is okay but I could have easily waited to watch it on DVD, it is definitely worth a watch over some of the other crap that is at the cinema at the moment.

Entertainment Score would be a 8/10. That’s all I really care about, let the award shows deal with how good a film is.