Kick-Ass (2010)

All Critics (241) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (190) | Rotten (58) | DVD (15)

Most of the lessons in Kick-Ass are juvenile, but Lordy are they stylishly told.

May 6, 2011 Full Review

Laremy Legel

Film.com

Top Critic

I found it mighty painful sitting through all the bone crushing and blood-letting.

April 23, 2010 Full Review | Comments (19)

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

I know it's all supposed to be tongue in cheek and lots of fun, but frankly this turned my stomach.

April 19, 2010 Full Review | Comments (121)

A.O. Scott

At the Movies

Top Critic

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?

April 19, 2010 Full Review | Comments (86)

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.

April 16, 2010 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Everything you've likely heard about Kick-Ass is true, providing you've heard it's profane, outlandish, ultra-violent, shocking, funny and wildly entertaining.

April 16, 2010 Full Review

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

With its electrifying action sequences, a killer storyline and a maverick comic sensibility, the brilliance of Kick Ass will hit those who want to see it like a thunderbolt.

April 12, 2013 Full Review

Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

If you're not too put-off by lots of violence and profanity, and enjoy a good action-filled popcorn flick, then chances are you're going to love "Kick-Ass."

October 1, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

If you want to get serious, you could say that Kick-Ass is the movie that could finally drag comic-books into the credible mainstream. But being serious is to miss the point of Kick-Ass completely.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Where do I stand on Kick-Ass? On the fence, goggling with a mix of appalled fascination and guilty pleasure at the film's dark comedy and over-the-top violence.

August 2, 2012 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Kick-Ass gains significant momentum in its second half, once it abandons the arch origin-story material and starts staking a claim as a straight-up action flick.

July 9, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out Chicago

Fast, funny, and a hell of a lot of fun, Vaughn's film does, indeed, live up to the brash punch of its title.

June 2, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

... It feels fresh, with an edge about it that allows you to think anything can happen to any character at any time.

November 5, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Defiantly irreverent and gleefully violent.

April 5, 2011 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

The movie just decided that thoughtlessness and splatter was its own reward. I'm okay with that.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

Never has a title been so true, so funny, and so simple as that of Kick-Ass.

February 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

Kick-Ass is so refreshingly iconoclastic, it's a wonder it was made at all.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife

Kick-Ass is such an exciting, refreshing development in comic book filmmaking that I want to shout it from the rooftops

January 10, 2011 Full Review

Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

Kick-Ass es probablemente una de las películas de superhéroes más originales y divertidas que se hayan hecho.

December 2, 2010 Full Review

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

Kick Ass is about as exciting as movies get. Not just because it is a (mostly) anarchic splatter-fest that celebrates (nay, encourages) acts of ridiculous violence, but also the fact that it was made completely outside of the studio system.

October 21, 2010 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Taking a classic American template and bringing it bang up to date for the internet age, this is a movie that's slugged it out with Hollywood heavyweights like Iron Man 2, and beaten them at their own game.

September 3, 2010 Full Review

Ian Berriman

SFX Magazine

The humour certainly pushes the boundaries, as much of it comes from dark places, but, believe it or not, it's hard not to laugh when an 11-year-old massacres a room full of baddies to the tune of The Banana Splits Theme.

August 17, 2010 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

A bait-and-switch movie that lucks out because its switch is so much more appealing than its bait.

August 13, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

• 1. Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass: [narriting] If you think I would have to servive cause I'm talking to you now... Stop being such a smart ass.
  – Submitted by Connor N (5 months ago)
• 1. Chris D'Amico/Red Mist: A world full of superheroes, eh?
  2. Chris D'Amico/Red Mist: As a great man once said... wait 'til they get a load of me.
  – Submitted by Jacob S (6 months ago)
• 1. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Show's over, motherfuckers.
  – Submitted by Jacob S (6 months ago)
• 1. Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Now Switch to kryptonite!
  2. Damon Macready/Big Daddy: Now go to Robin's revenge!
  – Submitted by Todd F (6 months ago)
• 1. Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass: Well how do I get a hold of you guys?
  2. Mindy Macready/Hit Girl: Just contact the mayor's office. He's got this giant light he shines in the sky. It's in the shape of a giant cock.
  – Submitted by Kim H (7 months ago)
• 1. Diner Fight Guy 1: The fuck is wrong with you, man? You'd rather die for some piece of shit that you don't even fucking know?
  2. Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass: The three assholes, laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me? Yeah, I'd rather die... so bring it on!
  – Submitted by Evan T (8 months ago)