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17. April 2010 | 06:51

Review: ‘Kick-Ass’ kills. Just don’t tell the kids

Lock up your children! Not forever, but tonight, certainly, and through the weekend — until the fever passes. We both know they’re wanting a piece of “Kick-Ass,” Matthew Vaughn’s hyper-violent, R-rated film of Mark Millar’s hot-off-the-presses comic book, and that would just be oh-so-wrong. (News Source: CNN - 15:37:30)

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Aaron Johnson and ChloÃ« Moretz in “Kick-Ass.” A story about a teenager who yearns to be a superhero, and a little girl who’s the star of her own splatter-happy head trip, the big-screen comic “Kick-Ass” could not be more calculating, or cynical. (News Source: New York Times - 13:50:54)

‘Kick-Ass’ Giveaway: Tweet to Win Superhero Swag

Heading out to see the violently funny (and violently violent) movie about amateur costumed crime-fighters this weekend? Follow these easy instructions, post a quick photo to Twitter and you could win Kick-Ass gear. (News Source: Wired News - 18:48:12)

Chloe Moretz in ‘Kick-Ass’ — are toddlers toting Uzis next?

Adapted from a comic book, Chloe Moretz and a bunch of wannabe young superheroes in ‘Kick-Ass’ don’t shy from expletive-filled hard-core violence. (News Source: The Christian Science Monitor - 19:11:26)

Hit Girl’s Revenge: The Kick-Ass Kids Are All Right

The movie may be called Kick-Ass, but you’ll walk out of the theater thinking ‘Hit Girl!’ (News Source: Wired News - 18:49:34)

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Starring: Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Grace Moretz Review: Youth, danger, fun, rule-busting defiance. That’s the juice of rock & roll. It’s also the juice in Kick-Ass, a mosh pit of a comic-book movie that dares you to dive into its anarchy. Even when the film swerves off its twisty tracks, there’s something potently unslick about the take of Brit director Matthew Vaughn (Layer … (News Source: Rolling Stone - 16:09:47)

Seven things to know about ‘Kick-Ass’

LOS ANGELES, April 17 - Even before the comedy action-adventure Kick-Ass hits US theatres this weekend, there were hints at the US premiere that a sequel to the send-up might be in the works. Based on the Marvel comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr, released on the independent imprint Icon, the film includes a cameo of Marvel’s chief, Stan Lee, who plays a man watching news footage. (News Source: The Malaysian Insider - 02:02:42)

‘Kick-Ass’: Five Things You Need To Know

MTV News compiled a list of five things you need to know about (and might have missed during your first viewing of) “Kick-Ass.” (News Source: MTV Music Television - 22:32:56)

Review: ‘Kick Ass’ is funny and edgy

Entertainment reporter George Pennacchio says if you’re easily offended you won’t want to see ‘Kick-Ass.’ (News Source: KABC-TV Los Angeles - 00:39:48)

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16. April 2010 | 01:48

Edgy, bloody, potty-mouthed: Ain’t that a ‘Kick-Ass’ film

Like any red-blooded comic book movie, ‘Kick-Ass’ comes with the requisite fixtures: secret identities, capes and masks, arch villains. (News Source: USA Today - 21:57:48)

Review: That’s ‘Kick-Ass’ entertainment

“Kick-Ass” lives up to the promise of its title, but it’s better than its title, too. It’s not an innocuous comedy. It doesn’t talk down to audiences. It brings together several popular strains of contemporary moviemaking and combines them into one big,… (News Source: San Francisco Chronicle - 22:48:03)

‘Kick-Ass’ knocks comic-book conventions upside down

“Kick-Ass” is a weirdly ambiguous film that challenges audience expectations about superheroes in a dark story about a masked loser, a vengeful father and a little girl who kills bad guys. (News Source: Seattle Times - 22:09:20)

‘Kick-Ass’ looking for boxoffice win

VIDEO: Lionsgate is unspooling the proudly vulgar comic-book adaptation “Kick-Ass” with hopes of a, well, kick-ass opening weekend. (News Source: The Hollywood Reporter - 22:15:27)

‘Kick-Ass’ Giveaway: Tweet to Win Superhero Swag

Heading out to see the violently funny (and violently violent) movie about amateur costumed crime-fighters this weekend? Follow these easy instructions, post a quick photo to Twitter and you could win Kick-Ass gear. (News Source: Wired News - 21:00:42)

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When comic book fanatic and superhero wannabe Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) turns fantasy into reality by donning a mask, green tights and adopting the moniker ‘Kick Ass’, he gets more than he bargained for (News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 23:00:43)

‘Kick-Ass’: Superhero send-up is violent, incorrect and, above all, hilarious | 3 stars

It may not be the best superhero movie ever, but Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass” could very well be the last one. Nah, just kidding. As long as arrested adolescents - by which I mean most of us - continue to ooh and aah over the digitally enhanced capers of spandexed hunks and babes, superheroes will populate our multiplexes. (News Source: The Kansas City Star - 19:38:26)

Scarecrow suggests … Like ‘Kick-Ass’? Look for ‘Defendor,’ ‘Miragemen’ and ‘Watchmen’ on DVD

Goofy crime-fighting stories (a la “Kick-Ass”) are legion on DVD, according to Seattle’s Scarecrow Video. Among the titles to check out: “Defendor,” “Miragemen” and “Watchmen.” (News Source: Seattle Times - 22:10:01)

Young stars of ‘Kick-Ass’ showcase their powers

SAN FRANCISCO — Director Matthew Vaughn put together a cast of young Hollywood stars to help bring the comic book “Kick-Ass” to the big screen. (News Source: The Fresno Bee - 19:30:37)

Movie review: ‘Kick-Ass’

11-year-old heroine’s potty mouth is the least offensive part of this film In a new introduction to the eight-part comic book series “Kick-Ass,” which was created in tandem with the film version, Image Comics co-founder Rob Liefeld describes the chief strength of Mark Millar’s superhero lark as extolling “hyper-real super-violence,” “so far over the top it has to be seen to be believed it makes … (News Source: Baltimore Sun - 22:22:49)

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