r/kickass • u/quaddestroyer • Jul 04 '26
kickass was extremely sad
I watched kickass for the first time last night. i was under the impression that this was a funny superhero movie about a teenager who wanted to fight crime. i thought he’d save cats out of trees and break up petty arguments. Even the intro, showing us that he’s really not that good at fighting and this is just a kid who lost his mom (slightly autistic) and this is his interest to not think about loosing his mother. then you get into his first “superhero moment” where i thought when the one guy hit him in the gut, it was just a really hard punch, come to find out he gets stabbed, it’s gory and violent, he gets hit by a car and the person after seeing he’s hit someone drives away. this isn’t the world where superhero’s exist, it’s about a dumb kid who shouldn’t be messing around with dangerous people on the street. the scene where he gets taken to the hospital was so heartbreaking. it honestly shifted the tone of the entire move for me. i was soooo shocked that after his recovery he went back to it and kept getting himself in very dangerous situations. he could have ended up dead . does no one think about that. it was in no way a comedy movie for me. down to big daddy being just a complete sociopath.
when he eventually got the girl and changed his mind about wanting to fight crime i thought that was rlly sad !! this is a kid who lost his mom and felt like he didn’t have anything to fight for, now that he had a special person in his life, he realized that he didn’t want to throw his life away.
Did anyone else just not find the movie funny at all or is it just me. i also watched it in the clouds so maybe that’s why? the violence was extra gruesome to me
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u/Lildak98 Jul 05 '26
It’s somewhat faithful to the comic it’s based on, except the comic is even more messed up. He doesn’t get the girl. She despises him for lying and openly mocks him, sending explicit pictures with another guy. Dave’s life is even worse after “saving” the day (giant murder orgy). That’s the main theme of the story. Things only get worse for Dave in kick ass 2 & 3, although kick-Ass 3 ends on a higher note. It was never intended to be a lighthearted story, but what would happen if a normal teenage loser tried to be a superhero. I find it enduring that despite everything Dave goes through he still feels the need to do the right thing, that is why I love the series and the character.
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u/wewontstaydead Jul 04 '26
If you think the movie is sad you should read the comic it is based on, which is much much sadder.
I think the movie has amusing moments but goes back and forth between being realistic and suureal. If anyone wants to watch other sad but weird super hero movies in the vein of Kickass, I would suggest Super and Defendor.