That awkward peace sign felt like a Herzog film.

wow, i didn’t know Justin Beeber was that good!

I appreciate this cute puppy on a much deeper level than you.

her parents originally wouldn’t let her say the title of the film–or anything when she wasn’t on set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlEdDizp8Aw&feature=player_embedded

I interviewed her and kickass a little bit. don’t expect any REAL JOURNALISM though. red carpets are wacky.

Guys, regardless of how damning this film is of other superhero movies, it’s still different in another way.

Zombieland was interesting because it’s a film about zombie films. Whether it’s an effective parody or something else is another issue, but traditionally zombie movies are ABOUT something. About race, about the cold war, about consumerism, about class power control, etc. Zombieland isn’t about anything except that it’s kind of about zombie movies.

Same with Kick-Ass. Its about comic books and superheroes, not what they represent. As all the reviewers pointed out, Batman has more meaning than big daddy, and spiderman mroe meaning than kickass. The film is meaningless except in whatever capacity it addresses the system of comic books and superhero movies.

Just because it has no other meaning doesnt mean it does a better job at parody necessarily, but I do think it’s interesting.

I disagree about your last point Gabe; that the film purports to be a parody while actually just being the thing, (which is basically what the onion review said).

The ending is no question by the book, but I feel like enough stuff happens before that where audiences dont need to just follow blindly at that point. Meaning isn’t just what the film presents, it’s how audiences react to that. And I agree, when Kick-Ass gets on the jetpack and “saves the day” at the end, lots of stupid nerds probably loved that. But I am not a stupid nerd and I got that it was a big dumb joke. The bazooka is from friggin True Lies, “You’re fired!”, and I never believed he could save the day for a minute, or that hit-girl was in trouble because throughout the entire film they show how much of a sissy kick-ass really is. And hit-girl had been in impossible situtations before and gotten out of them. And red mist isnt a real supervillain for the same reason kickass isnt a supervillain, they are pussies. While he was fighting red mist, the dork, ‘saving the day’ hit girl was battling the true villain.

The movie does work as a parody, remember when he mocked the superhero origin with his mom’s death? And how later they had that same origin for realsies with hit girl? That’s not oversight, thats not hypocrisy, thats parody. And big daddy was basically Chester Gould, a-hole conservative author of Dick Tracy, (using comic books for propaganda). And also more stuff.

But the point is, yes the ending was designed to make the nerds in the audience feel good after they had been stabbed and hit by a car and everything (kickass=the audience). But so what? Its a hollywood film, it’s basically required to do that. That doesn’t mean a smart person can’t get something different out of it.

Working within a constricting system is an art in itself. Douglas Sirk turned women’s films into secret gay propaganda by casting Rock Hudson in “All that Heaven Allows”, Ryan North uses the same comic template every day for his super popular webcomic http://www.dinosaurcomics.com , “Tetsuo the Iron Man” and a billion other low budget movies get way more creative than other films of means, etc.

It really WAS a good parody, and people forget part of a parody is having fun with the elements. As if “Hot Fuzz” never reveled in action movie fluff or the dialogue in the “Black Dynamite” was never funny on face, but only as it made fun of other blaxploitation films?
Kick-Ass, 4/4

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