What does Kill Bill and Final Destination have in common? Blood. Lots of blood – you’ll get more from Kick Ass.

To be honest, when I got an invite to watch the premiere of Kick-Ass, the things I’ve had on my mind were SUPERHEROES, martial arts, colorful costumes – Yes, all of these were in the movie but in a whole new level. Brutally, that is. I never thought how they were able to come up with such a beautiful movie the bloody way, literally.

When I commented how it should be R18 and not R13, a friend told me that the Kick Ass comics was really not intended for kids. How the hell would I know when I don’t read comics?

One friend commented that the movie title speaks for itself but I’m so slow, I didn’t get it.

So there. I watched the movie, screamed, covered my eyes and went out of the cinema with wobbly knees. Really.

Aaron Johnson plays Dave Lizewski, a teen geek and comic book fanatic who braved this way and went under disguise as a superhero – without superpowers at that! In his green and yellow suit he prowls the city to fight crime together with highly trained father and daughter tandem Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) and there’s another fledgling superhero who joins them – Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

KICK-ASS is based on the comic book of the same name written by Mark Millar and illustrated by John Romita, Jr. When Mark pitched his story to Matthew Vaughn, director of the blockbuster film Stardust, the latter was impressed and immediately agreed to direct the movie and write the screenplay with Jane Goldman, also his co-writer of Stardust.  Vaughn and Goldman were keen that their movie wouldn’t simply be a carbon copy of Millar’s book hence the back-story of Nicolas Cage’s character Big Daddy.

I enjoyed the movie so much that I want to watch it again but as a word of caution, the movie is definitely not for kids. Who would want their kids to be saying the C and F words while jumping from one office furniture to another and shooting people? No one, except Damon Macready aka Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) I think, who tried to train her daughter Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) with revenge in mind. And with training, I didn’t mean martial arts and taekwando – Hit Girl was trained to kill and bring justice to her mom’s death. Anong values naman makukuha natin dito? Di ba, wala?

But instead of criticizing the movie, I junked my being a mom for 2 full hours and enjoyed the movie because it was indeed a beautiful movie. Not for the faint hearted though. It felt like watching Kill Bill and Final Destination all over again.

I’ll stand by my word, it’s R18.

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