[Cadaverous Pallor]

Hooray for DVD release.

So, regardless of whether you tell me it's a comedy or a serious comic book movie, all I can say is that by the end of the film I was definitely feeling meh about the whole thing.

That's saying a lot since I loved the gory action, the teenager stuff, and Kick Ass himself. Even the setups for some of the stuff that ended weakly - Red Mist's crime family, Big Daddy's Adam West fetish - were great. Something went really wrong along the way.

As soon as I started to think about it after the film I realized that Big Daddy's character completely unnerved me. He's supposed to be a hero? At best, he's a man driven insane by circumstances and has raised his daughter to be a demon for his own purposes...and at best, my reaction is one of sadness. Sure, during the action it's pretty awesome, but in truth the character left a bad taste in my mouth. By the time he's burning and his daughter is continuing to slaughter people I just wanted to turn away. I'd equate it to the uneasy feeling I got while watching the protagonist of The Hurt Locker having sh.tty interactions with his wife and child after being scarred by war. It's just a bummer.

Agreed with the above that they completely belie the "normal guy as superhero" concept and if their intent was to show that no, a normal guy can't be a superhero, they did a poor job of it.

Like I said I really dug most of it and was disappointed that it fell apart at the end. I love Christopher Mintz-Plasse as a foil and hoped for more villian-ness by the end. After he tried to save Kick-Ass and then watched the crap get beat out of him I hoped for more of an emotional reaction, or at least, a bit of emotion when his father dies. The end shot had the wrong beat, much like the rest of the film.

Oh well - here's hoping Scott Pilgrim is better.