KICK-ASS opened at an estimated $19.75 million over the weekend, according to Box Office Mojo, falling just short of the number one spot held by “How To Train Your Dragon.” The Paramount / Dreamworks animated feature brought in an estimated $20 million during it’s fourth week in theaters.
I was able to catch the movie over the weekend, and I have to say that it lived up to every single bit of the hype. If you haven’t seen it yet, you need to make sure you check it out this week. The one huge thing that will help it out during it’s second week in theaters is the extremely positive word of mouth that it will receive. I wouldn’t be surprised if KICK-ASS earned another $20 million or more next weekend.
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This movie had a familiar theme in movies about adolescent life the not so popular nerd's struggle to be more popular and to get the girl that would normally only go with the popular "cool" guy the football hero. In this case the unlikely hero played by Aaron Johnson is a kid who gets pushed around by bullies and dreams of being a super hero and getting the popular girl who eventually befriends him because of a rumor that he is Gay and she thinks it cool to befriend a Gay.
So he eventually orders a super hero suit and tries to fight street crime as a self appointed super hero. The plot gets very complicated and there is lots of violence in unlikely and unrealistic situations which of course describes a lot of the recent movies based on comic books and put out by Marvel Comics such as the Batman and Spiderman series but this move is much more violent than those and has the weird touch of having an 11 year old girl as a skilled killer who calls herself Hitgirl. Despite the excessive violence and off the wall story the movie is a bit better than most of the movies I have seen lately. Other movies that tackle the problems of the Geek trying to become popular are Superbad which is quite funny and Triumph of the Nerds but there are quite a few films that tackle the coming of age theme along with the Nerd or Geek trying to fit in and be "cool."