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The whole Kick-Ass's alter-ego subplot was certainly the low mark of the movie. That said, while the play-gay thing was tired, it at least had a little more going for it than 6 other standard teen boy-gets-girl ploys they could have lifted from the playbook. There were a couple of funny lines involving that storyline, but yeah - it was relatively dull.
Again, since Kick-Ass was the classic audience entry point of normalcy to a world of weird, I accept that sort of thing. In truth, I'm rather tired of the widespread entertainment notion that the audience MUST have a straight-man entry point to project themselves into the story. I think that's bogus. But I certainly don't expect a comedy to break from that nearly-unbreakable norm of story-telling.
So yeah, more of Red Mist and Hit Girl/Big Daddy would have been better - but I don't think they were far off from the ideal balance. I would certainly have liked it if the Kick-Ass teen story had been better and funnier. But it gave me a chance to catch my breath.
As for the departure from the comic book - that could never have affected my enjoyment of the film - since I never read the comic. I'm glad I haven't. It's very difficult to enjoy the movie version of something you're already familiar with .... but much easier to enjoy the book or comic of a movie you've already seen.
So, in the comic, is there a counterpart of Big Daddy's old cop buddy who tries to warn him off vigilantiism and takes in Mindy (Hit Girl) in the end, so she's not orphaned?
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