Kick-Ass: With a name like that who needs the MPAA?

As a man who absolutely hates a spoiler I do love Hollywood’s occasional lean towards misrepresentation in trailers. The promotion I recall for Kick-Ass falls squarely in this realm. The promotion left me with an idea of Kick-Ass as a comedic satire of the  comic book superhero genre involving four ordinary people who team up to become superheroes. It certainly is a satire of the genre, but it’s too clever to be a straight up comedy. In fact there are some tragic elements that lend a lot drama to the story. Kick-Ass take a boldly irreverent approach to the life of a superhero. It’s as though either Mark Millar or Matthew Vaughn deliberately hates comic books. But then I guess I would too if I was force-fed them in the bathroom by the gym everyday at lunch in high school. His doctor kept telling him he’d be more regular with more green in his diet, but the bullies insisted on including the lanterns too.