I would like to begin with the following statement: HO-LY-SHIT! Kick-Ass by Mathew Vaughn is a movie that truly deserves its name. This is a comic book movie that takes every comic book movie convention, spins them over their heads and adds into the mix an eleven-year-old girl who punches, shoots, and stabs gangsters right after saying what I hope will be one of this year’s most memorable movie lines. To say that this film goes over the top implies that you have to redefine where the top is. The “hero” of the movie is Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) an average high school in New York who lives in a suburban neighbourhood that really resembles the one Peter Parker lives in. Dave is an average kid in every sense of the word: he is not athletic, he is not the brightest kid in school, nor is he the dorkiest. He is just somewhere in the middle and enjoys hanging out at the comic book store with his friends. One day he asks them why is it that no one has ever tried to be a real super hero...