I watched the aptly named Kick Ass the other day. The film's amazing, you can really relate to the characters and the films main premise. It plays on that awkward part of you that always wanted to be a super hero when you were a little kid, jumping over sofas and pretending that you could run up walls. The film has a teenage warmth and nostalgia about it. It keeps the split of true superhero / wannabe superhero really well; with Kill Bill influenced scenes of outrageous blood and deaths, with loads of real life teenage comedy thrown in, staying true to the comic's original form.
The comic's artwork drawn by John Romita Jr. is incredible. The line style and line work make the book's artwork totally original. The comic uses no solid blacks, which is 100% key in all other comics and is the main aspect that creates the images. Other comics like Frank Millers Sin City are rendered completely in black, creating shapes out of negative space. But With Kick Ass it is totally opposite, because of this the every frame pops with garish colour - and this translates into the film really well. Every room, costume, and colour totally pops, and it's incredibly noticeable; creating what feels like surreal primary bloodbath.
In a review written in the guardian Peter Bradshaw states that Kick ass brings superheroes into a our time; and how the use of social media drove his superhero celebrity status. He writes: "Kick-Ass, with an unconscious talent for divining the zeitgeist, has made the powers of the internet work for him: YouTube makes him a star, and his MySpace page builds his career. Peter Parker may have been bitten by a radioactive spider, but Dave has been bitten by the web celebrity bug. In the old days, Clark Kent and Peter Parker took work on newspapers, because that was how they found out where the action was. That was old media. Kick-Ass uses the online world to self-publish his superheroism."
Read the rest of the review here.
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