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Trailers | November 11, 2009 | Comments (19)

It seems odd, but we haven’t really talked much about Stardust and Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn’s next film, Kick-Ass. It’s a pretty fun (and supposedly shockingly gritty and violent) looking project, about a dorky kid who simply decides to be a superhero one day. He’s got no powers, training or skills — he just decides to do it. Of course, he finds himself in very real danger as a result, encountering other costumed friends and foes along the way. It’s based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar (“Wanted”). Vaughn’s film stars Aaron Johnson as high school student Dave Lizewski, whose alter ego is named, of course, Kick-Ass. Lyndsy Fonseca plays his love interest, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin!) plays The Red Mist, Chloe Moretz plays the 11-year old ninja badass Hit-Girl, and her father Big Daddy is played by, of course, Nicholas Cage.

Don’t let that last one deter you.

Anyway, here’s the trailer:


Kick-Ass

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Fuck yeah.


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Comments

Hopefully they don't fuck this up like they fucked up Wanted.

Posted by: Chugga at November 11, 2009 10:38 AM

Wanted? Don't get me started on The Loom Of Death (TM)! I'm a weaver and looms don't work that way. Morons.

Kick-Ass on the other hand, looks kick ass.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 11, 2009 10:44 AM

Oh I'm there.

And by "there" I mean "Pay-Per-View or one of my movie channels" 'cause I don't go out to movies much anymore, but still...

...there.

Posted by: Green Lantern at November 11, 2009 10:44 AM

that looks half amusing.

Posted by: gem at November 11, 2009 10:44 AM

If they do it right it could be perfect, so yeah let's get ready for a dissapointment.

Posted by: Simon at November 11, 2009 10:54 AM

The trailer looks really promising. I also think that "Big Daddy" might be one of the very few roles since, say, "Raising Arizona", where Nic Cage didn't bother the ever-living fuck out of me. (I do give him a pass for "Gone In 60 Seconds", because, for reasons I cannot fully explain, I am incapable of not liking that movie or, in fact, even turning it off if it's on TV. It holds power over me.)

I never saw "Wanted", but I read the comic. never saw the "Wanted" film, but I did read the comic. While I really enjoyed a lot of the ideas in the comic, the setting, a lot of the characters and what not, there was this sort of constant under-current of nastiness and mean-spiritedness that sort of left me with a bad aftertaste about the whole thing. I understand the comic was about villains and all, but still...

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at November 11, 2009 10:55 AM

Cool. Glad to finally see a trailer for a film I've been hearing is awesome for seemingly years. I'll see this one in the theater. After the chatty geriatrics and in-theater diaper change of A Christmas Carol, my love of my fellow humans has been given a lease extension by a Circle crowd that wisely STFU and sat in awe as Rear Window unfurled.

Posted by: laredo at November 11, 2009 10:58 AM

and her father Big Daddy is
---
Whu ... wah ... wait ... who?

Whoa ...

Lwa'e'! Lwa'e'! Look! Your Big Daddy is in a movie, darlin'! Wow. I wonder who they got to play me? Probably Clooney, we look so much alike! Or (you'd love this, I know) Ford, or even Eastwood, he still kicks ass and gets the chicks, or any number of engaging and charming and excellent older actors ...

*reads rest of sentence*

aw fuck

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at November 11, 2009 11:16 AM

And yet another rather promising movie experience that's going to be totally and utterly ruined by synchronization and translation... *sighs* I guess I'm going to immigrate.

Posted by: Padame at November 11, 2009 11:18 AM

I want to be Hit-Girl when I grow up!

Posted by: Alexandra at November 11, 2009 11:28 AM

i can say without a doubt that this movie is going to be far better than what most of your are probably expecting (yes, even if you're already expecting it to be good.) i saw a shit-ton of footage of it at SDCC, and it was by far the coolest fucking 25 minutes of the entire show (trumped even the 25 minutes of avatar footage and everything iron man 2 had to offer.) the trailer does not do this thing justice.

Posted by: podface at November 11, 2009 12:00 PM

Dude. Is McLovin really playing Red Mist? Because "he" pretty much looks like a hot chick with that hair/mask combo. Look at him pouting as they show his name! It's like they cast Jessica Alba!

Posted by: esme at November 11, 2009 12:31 PM

looks nice!

Posted by: carrie at November 11, 2009 12:33 PM

Kudos to Podface, I saw about half of the SDCC footage online. It'll get better than just this.

This one is at worst a wait-and-see-reviews, and we must not forget, dear Pajibans, that Brett Ratner and McG have nothing to do with this one. Plus seeing less of Nic Cage (THE BEES!) keeps hopes up as well.

Posted by: D-Day at November 11, 2009 12:57 PM

I think I saw this movie once ... oh yeah, it's called Mystery Men.

Posted by: MisterMJ at November 11, 2009 5:18 PM

Looks cute. And I will watch Mintz-Plasse in anything, so I'm bound to see this eventually.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at November 11, 2009 5:52 PM

I must remember to read the comic before this comes out. Seems weird to do it the other way around.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at November 11, 2009 7:21 PM

Looks interesting but the fact that the comic book has only had like 7 issues and it's already getting a movie. I like Kick-Ass but unless Mark Millar had a major involvment in the script then I don't know how they handled the plot from the comic.

Posted by: Radlum at November 11, 2009 9:41 PM

Oh lord, the only other film I've seen that Aaron Johnson kid in is called 'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging' (which was more kickass than you'd expect). He was crazy hot in that, and then I realised he was born in 1990 and that in turn made me feel dirty.

So yeah I'm excited for Kickass...more excited than I probably should be, but what's new there.

Posted by: Mona at November 12, 2009 9:25 PM





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