Kick Ass Makes a Believer Out of the Movie Grumpus

The Great Plotnik is thinking things over today, after violating all his movie-enjoyment principles last night, at least as defined by his kids. But, in Plottie's defense -- has anyone seen "Kick Ass?"



You have to get through the first ten or fifteen minutes, when you're thinking this is really gonna be a cliche-infested piecea gabbage. But then -- listen to Plotnik now -- NICK CAGE saves the day!



That's him at the opening last year, with Absolute SuperHero Suprema Hit Girl a.k.a. Chloe Moretz -- she's wearing the purple wig in the picture in the middle. It's the story of a high school kid (Aaron Johnson) who decides he wants to be a Superhero, but sadly is lacking super powers. He then somehow runs into Cage and Moretz, a.k.a. Big Daddy and Hit Girl, who are the real thing. Plot will not tell you what happens, but it's a fantastic mix of movie and video game, good versus evil. Baddies get killed nonstop -- in a video game kind of way. It's violent, but not really, and the understory is a simple and endearing one.

Kind of like Little Miss Sunshine with bazookas. And Nick Cage climbs out of the absolute cellar, where he has languished at Homeland Security Red Level for a decade, and vaults over Morgan Freeman and Robin Williams onto the bottom of the Orange level. Plottie would seriously consider seeing another movie with Cage in it now, though he'd rather watch reruns of Raising Arizona or Moonstruck.

Old Plottie would have said: THIS MOVIE IS IDIOTIC. IT'S JUVENILE. IT'S, UH, ALL THE OTHER STUFF PLOTNIK ALWAYS SAYS. IT'S WORSE THAN 'INCEPTION' OR 'THE ENGLISH PATIENT.'

Don't listen to him. It's a fabulous film and if you let yourself settle into the good guys taking on the bad guys you are going to love it. And you may as well, because the ending has sequel sequel sequel written all over it.

And here's the proof: if you read reviews, you discover that Kick Ass was originally a comic book. The hard core gamers and comic bookers all were sure they'd despise the movie, especially when they heard Nicholas Cage was in it, but after seeing the movie every one of them says, reluctantly, "well, I gotta admitt its the bomb tru to the comix dude love it." And The Grate Plottnick agreez. Rent it.