Kick-Ass
Lionsgate | Release Date: April 16, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
7
Negative:
4
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60
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Grungily stylish and often funny, at least for a while, though all of the caveats and contradictions that apply to Tarantino films apply here: One man's--or boy's--stylization is another's profane, unrelenting and tedious brutality. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Vaughn opts for comic-book bigness—big fights, big laugh lines, big explosions—but without a Spider-Man or Batman at the front of the action, Kick-Ass’s heroes and villains look smaller-than-life in a larger-than-life world. Read full review
50
Village VoiceKarina Longworth
Never as shocking as it thinks it is, as funny as it should be, or as engaged in cultural critique as it could be, Kick-Ass is half-assed. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
An awkward blend of ultra-realistic violence, boundaries-bending satire and low comedy. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Vaughn did a cracking good caper film with a pre-007 Daniel Craig called "Layer Cake" six years ago, but Kick-Ass has little of that film's heady panache and instead batters you about the face and neck with wildly over-the-top fountains of gore, bone-cracking slow-motion, and, yes, Cage, who dials his acting down a few notches from the kicky Herzogian mindf---ery of "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." Read full review
50
SlateDana Stevens
Since Kick-Ass' whole premise is that comic-book violence, when enacted in real life, has real consequences, it seems a strange choice to layer Tarantino-style splatter onto the Y.A.-novel setting and play the whole thing for laughs. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
The standard defense of such material is that we are watching “cartoon violence,” but, when filmmakers nudge a child into viewing savagery as slapstick, are we not allowing them to do what we condemn in the pornographer--that is, to coarsen and inflame? Read full review
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