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Review: Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn has crafted the best superhero movie this side of Watchmen in Kick-Ass. The movie’s tone is all-at-once hilarious, relentless and violent in all the right ways.

Dave Lizewski is your average comic-book nerd dreaming of something better. He spends the movie narrating for us in much the same way Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus guides us through the rules and wackiness of the world of Zombieland, or the Fight Club-style lecturing and posturing of James McAvoy in Wanted. Dave is a mere socially inept nerd and nothing more. By his narrative’s admission, if you’re looking for clichéd tales of vengeance for the death of a loved one, you’ll have to look elsewhere. READ MORE!