I’ll be honest, I wasn’t thrilled with the prospect of seeing Kick-Ass. In fact, I only went because Jon woke me up from a nap I was taking and rushed Nicole and I to the theater last night, effectively kidnapping us.  Haunting presuppositions of a campy, Mystery Men-ish comic book movie flooded my mind when met with the prospect of seeing this film. However, as with most things Jon drags us to, he was completely right in doing so. In fact Kick-Ass was so Kick-Ass that it forced me to get that terrible line out at the beginning if the review instead of the end of the review. But it’s not enough to say that it IS kick ass, so hit the jump to find out why Kick-Ass comes out of the gates with fury, setting up the summer movie season in a big way.

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