Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.

The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman

The film premiered on 26 March 2010 in the United Kingdom and was released on 16 April 2010 in the United States.

The film tells the story of teenage Dave Lizewski who sets out to become a real-life superhero only to get caught up in a bigger fight.

He meets Big Daddy, a former cop who, in his quest to bring down an evil drug lord, Frank D’Amico, has trained his eleven-year-old daughter to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl. Kick-Ass has generated some controversy for its profanity and violence, particularly for the character Hit-Girl. It received mostly positive reviews.

Plot
Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), an average teenager, wonders why no one has ever decided to become a real-life superhero like the ones in the comic books. After being mugged while a bystander watches and does nothing, he decides to become a real-life superhero.

He buys a scuba suit on eBay as his costume and becomes a masked crime fighter, despite the fact he has no superpowers or training of any kind. Dave fails miserably: he is beaten, stabbed, and hit by a car.

He convinces paramedics to say nothing of his costume and pretends he was brought in naked. He spends several weeks in the hospital, where his bones have been repaired with metal plates, and nerve damage has diminished his ability to feel pain.

Returning to school Dave finds his longtime crush Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca) is surprisingly interested in him. Thinking he is gay, she wants to take care of him. He goes along with this in an effort to spend time with her.

Undeterred by his earlier setback, Dave intervenes in a gang fight, defending against three men using modified night-sticks. A bystander records the event on his phone and also captures Dave dubbing himself “Kick-Ass”. The video becomes a YouTube phenomenon, making Kick-Ass an overnight sensation. Dave sets up a MySpace account so people can contact Kick-Ass. While spending time with Katie, she admits that she was being harassed by a drug dealer; he convinces her to ask Kick-Ass for help.

He then investigates, ending up in an apartment full of violent lowlifes who try to kill him. He is rescued by costumed vigilante Hit-Girl (Chloë Moretz), who kills all the attackers and then leaves with her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage). Later, they visit Kick-Ass, having tracked him down by tracing his MySpace account. Hit-Girl and Big Daddy inform Kick-Ass that they can work together, and they will keep in contact.

Believing Kick-Ass to be responsible for numerous deaths within his crew and the theft of his drug money, local crime syndicate leader Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong) orders his men to eliminate him. D’Amico’s son Chris (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) suggests a different approach – posing as a superhero (”Red Mist”) to entice Kick-Ass into meeting him, gaining his trust, and leading him into a trap.

Red Mist’s plan succeeds; he meets Kick-Ass through his website, they arrive at D’Amico’s warehouse to “ambush” his men. There, they find it on fire and his men dead. Red Mist retrieves surveillance footage from a spy camera which shows that Big Daddy is responsible. Big Daddy is revealed as a former “super-cop” Damon Macready. He swore vengeance against D’Amico after he framed him and sent him to prison.

While in prison his pregnant wife died giving birth to their daughter, Mindy. Training his daughter to fight crime after his release, they become Big Daddy and Hit-Girl. Damon’s former partner Marcus (Omari Hardwick) discovers he is the vigilante Big Daddy. He argues Mindy has a right to a normal childhood but agrees to keep their secret. Realizing the seriousness of his situation, Dave wants to quit.

He tells Katie he is Kick-Ass; she forgives him for lying about being gay, and becomes his girlfriend. Checking his website, Dave finds a flood of urgent messages from Red Mist requesting they meet due to D’Amico putting a price on their heads. When they meet, Red Mist asks Kick-Ass to find Hit-Girl and Big Daddy. Arriving at one of their safe houses with D’Amico’s men following, Red Mist shoots Hit-Girl, knocking her off a window ledge out onto the ground below. Kick-Ass and Big Daddy are captured and taken to a warehouse where the gangsters stage an internet broadcast, intending to unmask and execute the heroes. They are severely beaten and about to be set on fire, when Hit-Girl kills the henchmen.

Big Daddy is badly burned and dies of his injuries after a tender moment with his daughter. Kick-Ass tries to convince Hit-Girl to quit, but she is determined to stop D’Amico. Posing as a schoolgirl, Hit-Girl enters D’Amico’s headquarters and kills the guards. She battles through the headquarters killing nearly all of D’Amico’s henchmen, but is cornered when she runs out of ammunition.

As she is about to be blasted with a bazooka, she is rescued by Kick-Ass, who flies in on a jet pack fitted with Gatling guns that Big Daddy and Hit Girl had purchased earlier. Kick-Ass and Red Mist then fight, knocking each other out, while Hit-Girl fights D’Amico in his office. Overwhelmed and outgunned, Hit-Girl is nearly killed by D’Amico, until Kick-Ass fires the bazooka, blasting him out of the window where he explodes in mid-air. Red Mist recovers, grabbing his father’s sword only to discover Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl have already gone.

Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass retire from crime fighting, with Mindy living a normal life under the care of Marcus and attending the same school as Dave. In the epilogue, Kick-Ass says another wave of superheroes have been inspired by his exploits, and Red Mist is shown donning a new mask and swearing vengeance.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn

Produced by
Matthew Vaughn
Brad Pitt
Kris Thykier
Adam Bohling
Tarquin Pack
David Reid

Written by
Matthew Vaughn
Jane Goldman
Mark Millar (Comic book)
John Romita, Jr. (Comic book illustrator)
Narrated by Aaron Johnson

Cast
* Aaron Johnson as Dave Lizewski/Kick-Ass
* Nicolas Cage as Damon Macready/Big Daddy. Brad Pitt was considered for the role. Vaughn described Cage’s performance as a little bit Elvis and a little bit Adam West. A character in the film even says his costume looks like Batman.
* Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy Macready/Hit-Girl. Vaughn commented on the maturity of Moretz, and she told him having four older brothers, there was not much in the script she had not heard before.
* Mark Strong as Frank D’Amico, head of a criminal organization.
* Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris D’Amico/Red Mist
* Yancy Butler as Angie D’Amico
* Jason Flemyng as the building doorman
* Elizabeth McGovern as Mrs. Lizewski
* Garrett M. Brown as Mr. Lizewski
* Lyndsy Fonseca as Katie Deauxma
* Dexter Fletcher as Cody
* Clark Duke as Marty
* Evan Peters as Todd
* Xander Berkeley as Detective Gigante
* Omari Hardwick as Sergeant Marcus Williams
* Stu Riley as bodyguard to the D’Amico family.[citation needed]
* Craig Ferguson as Himself

Music by
John Murphy
Henry Jackman
Marius de Vries
Ilan Eshkeri

Cinematography Ben Davis

Editing by
Pietro Scalia
Jon Harris
Eddie Hamilton

Studio
Marv Films
Plan B Entertainment

Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Lionsgate

Release date(s)
26 March 2010 (United Kingdom)
16 April 2010 (United States)

Running time 117 minutes

Country
United Kingdom
United States

Language English
Budget $28,000,000
Gross revenue $38,788,662

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