If there is one Comic Book movie worth noting this year, it would be Kick-Ass. It is not what you would expect from a Comic Book movie as the comic itself was very different. It looks at things in a different light from even Watchmen, the one other book that looked into Vigilante Justice. More than anything this movie takes a look into the more human elements of life around what it is to be a hero. The movie boast a great cast as well with Aaron Jonhson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Mortz, Mark Strong and Nicholas Cage. The movie does contain a lot of cursing and no small amount of violence so it definitely earned its "R" rating.

The movie opens much like the comic book did, minus only a little cursing and add in a history of mental health problems. It remains tragically funny to see someone try to glide using a bird suit like that only to smash into a car at the foot of the building. True to the comic, the more has a lot of violence and a surprising amount of cursing overall. Still, for the tone of the movie it fits well enough. This is especially true when you watch the movie and see just how much Kick-Ass has to deal with at times. Still, the movie got more romanticized than the comic, as was to be expected. The animated sequence was different from what I was expecting in ways as it was an animation of a comic book that Big Daddy had drawn, showing his origins. There were some interesting musical choices as well, like Hit Girl's first appearance where she kills a number of gang members to the Banana Splits theme. By the same token it also adds an element of humor and playfulness that would be very hard to show otherwise. Hit Girl is shown to see things differently than everyone else because of her Dad. Kick-Ass does get beat up more than he takes down people at times but he does set off something that goes beyond just him. Especially with the ending being very similiar to the comic with the final line of "As a great man once said 'Wait 'til they get a load of me'".

It is hard to give some credit properly to the performance of the main characters as they did a more than remarkable job in their roles. Johnson and Mintz-Plasse work well together, showing some real, if brief, dynamics that could have worked better if events in the movie did not go the way they did. Still, both did a great job of working in their roles and playing off each toher while they are there. Nicholas Cage gives a different kind of performance with his role in this movie. He shows a father bent on revenge for the time he was sent to prison, the loss of his wife overall the destruction of everything he held dear save for his newly born daughter. It was also interesting to see him talk as modeled by Adam West with the odd timbre and pacing of that batman character. There was a lot overall each performer brought to the movie and each part made it a better viewing.

Kick-Ass shows a completely different take on any form of heroes. While very gory and with profuse amounts of swearing it is a more mature movie, it does offer a better experience than a lot of other different comic based movies. It looks at not just the time spent as a hero, but the time spent as the person even more. Overall it is a great movie that managed to make it from the comics onto the silver screen with minimal loss of the content. It is a great movie for anyone who enjoys comics and would like to see a case of what it is for someone to don a costume and see what will change with it.