• Looks dumb. It's set in the real world so the wannabe superhero get beat up. Fine makes sense. But it's set in the real world so an 50 pound 3'10" 12 year old with "training" (oooohhh!)unstoppably demolishes multiple armed experienced thugs who are FULL GROWN MEN. Uhmmm...that makes no sense. And what is particularly funny or cool about it? I mean I get that in the 21st century "manhood" is meaningless but as a guy I am not feeling the whole "ha! a girl can kick a guys ass easily" thing. I just don't get it. Apparently geeks revel in anything that pisses on the evil "macho-ness" they have so little of re: "THIS IS THE GREATES THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!" If they were keeping it real hit girl would get knocked out every fight crippled and raped 20 times by act two of the movie. I wouldn't want to see that movie though. The character simply cannot exist without undermining the movie's basic premise. Plus it looks cheap. The production design and cinematography looks like bad tv stuff.

• The whole thing about Nic Cage, thats excatly what I think! I freaking hate him. He's always trying to do serious roles, which just makes the movies he is in even more stupid. Anyway I'm kind of thorn between how cool it is for a little girl to be killing people all along with the Bananas Splits theme song or be more worried that if I go to see this movie I might be surrounded by pedophiles.

• Don't be so cynical. Many nerds just love the pun potential of the title and don't actually grasp the concept of characters in the first place. As for killing machines, I think the kind that are actual machines are more popular at the box office.

• My head hurts, the level of awesome is astronomical. I know nothing of the source material, but that's on my must see list for 2010.

• Don't worry, Smashy, I haven't seen Avatar either. And I don't plan to. It absolutely looks like ass from every preview I've seen (not to mention there can't be much left to show outside the multitude of trailers available right now). Kick-Ass looks like a lot of fun. But they obviously made it that way. They aren't going for Oscar bait here (and why should they). I think the fanboys that read the comics need to lighten up. As someone who hasn't read the comics, I'm very interested in the movie. Not everything has to be 100% faithful to the source material and/or be the exact vision of what each of those fanboys expected. Sometimes I wonder about peoples' wonky standards when it comes to adaptations...

• I learnt almost all the naughty words I know as a schoolboy.... even in Year 5 the kids in my class were giggling at 'country without the ry' as we put it....

• OOOH! OOOOH! OOOOOOH! Everybody but me has seen Avatar and says it's a blast. The general reaction seems to be: Movie 7/10 Awesomeness of the Whole Cinematic experience: 100000000000/10 So, it'll probably fail when it comes out on DVD unless you own the home cinema system and technology required to fully view this 'technological blowjob'

• People complaining about kids swearing are a fucking hoot. Where did you guys go to school? Too many children that age take profanity to an artistic level of professionalism, not to mention all the other barbaric, disgusting things they do. Children are the natural monsters of the world. Only natural what Millar did with HitGirl. And I read the first 6 issues yesterday and she comes across as playful out of costume and adorable with her dad. As a vigilante she is relentless, merciless, coldblooded. The comics are cool, but this was just meant to be a batshit insane movie.

• It was indeed The Dickies. Appropriate that your first name is Stiff ... ;)

• Oh My Fuck. Awesome.

• KICK-ASS has just joined BITCH SLAP and IRON MAN 2 on my 2010 "I will fucking DIE if I don't see this on the big screen" list. (And I'm pretty sure that was L.A. cartoon punks The Dickies rocking the BANANA SPLITS theme there...)

• First, this pegs the needle on the "Jesus Fucking Christ, they did what???" scale, so I'll be there when it opens. I think this will make a small mountain of money, and largely because they didn't dumb it down to squeeze it into a PG13 rating to maximize the potential audience (Aliens Vs. Predator... hello???). This will work because they went as far as they could in the opposite direction, which brings it to a whole other level of "high concept". That's both ballsy and brilliant.

• Actually, those who have seen Kick-Ass say it's quite awesome, and they do so without the usual Avatar caveat of "once you get past the insultingly stupid plot". Anyway, your logic is a bit questionable. Because Avatar ended up being not-terrible despite having lame trailers TR should go harder on Kick-Ass for having good trailers?

• Your first mistake was caring about a Mark Millar project.

• You can start a petition, but a Marvel contracted writer will never write a Superman movie.

• While I do find kids swearing to sometimes be funny, in a South Park or Simpsons kind of way, I admittedly am a little more disturbed when I know it's a real child talking like that... even if it is acting. It just seems wrong somehow. Maybe more context might make it not seem as bad, but I dunno. Anyway, this is all I've seen of the movie, and I'd kind of like to check it out now. Fortunately, I can say that the girl doesn't do anything for me. However, it is a nice costume.

• err wouldn't that be filed after ghost rider? alphabetically?

• When I heard they were making my favorite comic into a movie, I couldn't wait to see it. When I heard that Mark Millar was completely involved in the making of it, I wanted to see it more. After watching this trailer, I need to see this NOW. Fuck the big 10 foot blue Avatar douches. This movie is going to be freakin' AWESOME.

• I thought the trailer looked pretty cool and while a little girl flipping off the word cunt is a little unsettling for me, at least this movie doesn't support beastiality like Avatar does. /PSA

• Oh, c'mon. If your dad was Batman and you saw how the badguys peed themselves when he talked like that, you'd talk like that too right before you shot everyone.

• Wow, I find it interesting that you pre-hated Avatar which seems to be considered pretty awesome by everyone who's seen it (and got an actual standing ovation in the theater where I saw it Mon.) and you pre-love this crap, which looks like it's going to be filed in my retarded superhero movie section between Ghost Rider and Elektra.

• Agreed on Raising Arizona, one of my favorite movies. Now an actual recent Nic Cage movie I think I really want to see. Now only if they would post a full red band trailer for the whole movie, I would be a happy person right before the holidays.

• Although I will agree that the presence of a girl who can activate bullet time does lessen the 'What if a person tried to be a superhero in real life' concept slightly, I am a firm believe in what is known as the Rule of Cool. And that was just cool. Rob makes an excellent point about Mr. Cage as well, although I've actually never loathed the man's ability to act. I'm not saying that he's a GOOD actor consistently, but he CAN actually ACT. That, compared to some other actors and actresses who are currently popular today (I'll spare you a list, everyone knows some actor like that) Nic Cage is damn good. The only downside to this is now I have the Banana Splits theme song stuck in my head.

• Sure, I'll just walk into another theater, Shirley.

• Walk it off Nancy.

• Thanks for giving props to Raising Arizona. Its one of my favorite comedies and the movie that prevents me from writing off Nic Cage altogether.

• Maybe I'm being overly grumpy, here. But I'm disgruntled, since I was really enjoying the comic book series and felt it took a huge nosedive with the introduction of her character. Too quickly, it went from being a good story about what would actually happen if a regular schlub became a superhero (which I thought was the whole point) and began focusing on a pretty unrealistic, annoying child ninja. I thought it sucked, and I'm sorry to see the movie went down that path, too.

• I'll admit I laughed at the restaurant scene. But still, the more clips I see of this movie, the less interested I become. It just looks stupid, stupid, stupid.

• I really don't get the love for this. Oh wait, almost forgot, most nerds love one-dimensional characters that are killing machines.

• I can't stand Hit-Girl. She's why I stopped reading the comic. She comes across like a bad Mary Sue character, all smug and unstoppably killing everyone. No thanks. I plan to skip this movie.

• Yeah screw that, the reason this trailer gives me faith in this movie is the crazy rocking cover of the Banana Splits theme song! :D

• I'm with you JimBob. I don't understand this. A little girl calls people cunts and then kills them, so she becomes fap material for fanboys? This is all too creepy for me!

• MM's Superman pitch, for those who are unaware: http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/10/29/mark-millars-superman-pitch-revealed-as-godfather-like-epic/ For please, yes.

• I would just like to add that the person responsible for this is Mark Millar. He wrote the comic series the film is based on. Behold: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick-Ass ...I feel it's relevant because he's the same person who really, REALLY wants to write and direct the Superman reboot for WB, should that ever get off the ground again. Feel free to start a petition. I didn't think I'd be excited about Kick-Ass just because I don't usually go for the ultra-violence, but I dunno... it looks like a lot of fun :)

• Fuck you, Rob. Why? Without you I wouldn't even know this movie existed. And I have all the same high hopes for this movie that I did for Batman Begins. If this movie doesn't pay out I'm going to blame you for my being butt hurt over it. Seriously man. Merry Christmas. I love what you do.

• ENTRAPPED into PERVINESS. Exactly. But that's the M.O. of the whole entertainment machine isn't it? Millar's just showing us how sick we really are. And yes, I want Hit-Girl for Xmas too.

• Remember that part in that clip where she wrapped the guy up with rope and made him shoot himself in the head with his own gun? ...That was AWESOME!

• I never comment on this site, but I did see this movie and review it on aintitcool. Because it is awesome and I tried to let that be known, I was called a series of plant-related puns. But it is great. Or it's at least entertaining throughout and has a bunch of "oh snap" or if you prefer, "oh shit" moments. from my review: "It feels like a mixture of Batman Begins (it's an origin story about a powerless hero in a quasi-realistic, super-hero free world), Superbad (a coming-of-age teen angst tale with hilarious nerd banter- and the McLovin guy), and The Professional (there's an off-beat, obsessive master-assassin teaching a foul-mouthed, smart-ass young girl how to "hit"). And maybe a little bit Zombieland (with the dry, irreverent voice-over narrative from the film's socially-awkward hero). And maybe let's throw in a bit of the ol' Snatch or Layer Cake (with all the snappy lines and over-the-top antics from the tough-guys). I know that sounds like a narrative and tonal mess, but it really all comes together in perfect harmony." While it may not be a better super-hero film than TDK or IM2, it's funnier, more entertaining and more re-watchable (if that makes sense).

• Welcome back! Though did you by chance see what we were subjected to whilst you were gone??? SPORK! It's like he tried to top all the FFF ever with one post!

• I didn't even know you were gone.

• And she's like twelve. So I'm feeling like I was entrapped into perviness.

• Her line delivery as Hit Girl annoys me. Just becuase Christian Bale does that whispery, husky thing with Batman doesn't mean everyone has to.

• Yes.

• Was that the Banana Splits theme I heard?

• It screws with my head that the background theme is from a childrens tv show from the late 70's and early eighties.

• Manwards stole my thoughts. I normally don't get too excited by new movies anymore, I'm even kind of depressed about Iron Man 2, but this movie should've been my x-mas present this year. I don't think I'm going to be able to wait until April to behold such majesty.

• It's easy to take the moral high ground here. Swearing and graphic violence aren't sophisticated and they don't automatically make a worthless film good. But putting my thoughts on that aside for a minute, that child called the bad guys "cunts" and then shot them all in the head. I think I'm in love.

• Annnd, Neuronaut wins the comments thread. In other news, this is entirely awesome.

• JimBob apparently has no soul.

• I do not see the appeal at all. So there's a little girl who swears and shoots people? Whoopty-skywalking-do.

• This was way more fap worthy than that poster!

• You know...I want nothing more than to revel in the awesome that this movie appears to be putting on, but there's something about it that just feels kinda...off. It really does look like it's going to be fun, but a lot of what I'm seeing makes it look like it's a bit of a big budget fan-film. Maybe that's what they're going for, seeing as it's supposed to be set in the "real world", but I'm having a problem not letting the look take me out of the enjoyment.

• Oh. My God. This is the best fucking thing I have seen in m life. God, if it wasn't for Fan Fiction Friday this would be the best site ever.

• I don't know anything about this movie, but that looks (pardon the phrase) kick ass

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