Kick-Ass Directed by Matthew Vaughn

[The Newswire]

Matthew Vaughn directed and co-wrote the movie Kick-Ass, which opens this week. His past work is why I'm interested in seeing this, despite the fact that the ordinary life superhero comedy has been done so wretchedly badly recently e.g. Superhero Movie. Matthew Vaughn directed the excellent modern noir Layer Cake, which starred a pre-James Bond Daniel Craig as a drug dealer on the brink of retirement, and Matthew Vaughn both directed and co-wrote the modern-feeling-if-not-technically-present-day...

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[Ajax Knucklebones]

I saw the "red band" trailer of "hitgirl", who's a "superhero", in Kick-Ass. It was actually pretty good. She's an 11 year-old bad ass who has a mouth like a sailor..

[nathanmbailey]

Wasn't Superhero Movie suppose to be a spoof? I wouldn't consider it everyday guy as a superhero. Better example of that would probably by Mystery Men. Though, that movie probably wasn't much better. (I haven't actually watched Superhero Movie, so I don't really know.)

[Rockwulf]

I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm a big fan of the comics it's based off of.

[Amelia G]

Wasn't Superhero Movie suppose to be a spoof? I wouldn't consider it everyday guy as a superhero. Better example of that would probably by Mystery Men. Though, that movie probably wasn't much better. (I haven't actually watched Superhero Movie, so I don't really know.)

I agree that it was definitely supposed to be a spoof, but, in some sense, I think everything in this genre is a bit of a send-up. Only Superhero Movie was really really bad. Had it been hilarious, it would not have been bad. It wasn't hilarious.

[Rockwulf]

I loved the movie. The music they played when they introduced Hit Girl was brilliant.