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Jake Mulligan reviews awesome and obscure movies, makes random top ten lists, and keeps you updated on cool screenings in the city of Boston. For those tired of the terrible offerings in theatres every Friday.

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April 2010

My Take On... "Kick-Ass"

4/22/10 6:19 PM

My Take On… “Kick-Ass” Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick Ass” may be the most infuriating movie I have seen in a long time, but that’s probably just because it spends the first fifteen minutes pretending it’s going to have something interesting to say. The film, sold on the premise of “what if super heroes existed in the real world?” (you know, the premise of every other comic book movie ever made) starts as a combination of genre commentary and “American Pie” style humor (people still laugh at jokes about large African nipples and jerking off in 2010? Really?), then slowly but surely devolves into a sophomoric, emotionless attempt at an action film. The film, following four eccentric superheroes (the plucked-from-Superbad... 1 comment