Richard Wilkins gave 'Kick Ass' a scathing review.
Posted on 04/07/2010 7:40:53 PM PDT by myknowledge
Veteran entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins has joined a chorus of condemnation for the new film Kick Ass, saying "don't even think about" seeing it.
The Nine Network entertainment editor awarded the movie just one star out of four while speaking on the TODAY show this morning.
MOVIEFIX: Interview with 'Kick Ass' director
"I can't possibly encourage you to go and see this overhyped, inappropriate sensationalism that glamourises kids with guns," he said.
"I just think it is wrong ... so wrong."
In the film, which is co-produced by Brad Pitt and stars Nicolas Cage, young characters who dress as superheroes use obscene language and commit extreme acts of violence.
The graphic scenes include a young girl shooting a man in the cheek and also being shot at by her father.
"The film is inappropriate — it's excessively violent and there's nothing particularly clever about it," Wilkins said when contacted after the review.
"It aspires to be a high camp black comedy in a Quentin Tarantino way but falls short of that."
Wilkins said he would not want his 14-year-old son Christian seeing the film.
"I don't want him seeing kids with guns and knives, killing people randomly and hearing young children say the sort of language they use in the movie," he said.
"You'd hope most teens would be old enough and wise enough to make these judgements themselves."
Several Australian family groups have also spoken out against the film, which features frequent use of the "c" and "f" words.
"It's a disturbing step into the perverse, revelling in the corruption of an 11-year-old girl," Focus on the Family's Deb Sorensen told News Ltd last week.
"It's different to any other superhero film which focuses on good triumphing over evil."
In the US the film is given an R rating, banning people under the age of 17 from seeing it, but in Australia its MA rating means children as young as 15 can see it unaccompanied.
The Office of Film and Literature Classification warns that the film contains strong violence, coarse language and sexual references.
The film opens in Australian cinemas today.
Richard Wilkins gave 'Kick Ass' a scathing review.
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“The film is inappropriate — it’s excessively violent and there’s nothing particularly clever about it,”
Oh...Pulp Fiction.
Obscene language, excessive violence.
Sounds like a fun movie.
Hollyweird prides themselves on who can hit the bottom faster, I suspect in 5 years kiddie porn will be the top films at theaters.
The last ultra-violent, R rated, superhero satire to come out of Hollywood was last year’s Watchmen. It bombed. This movie probably will too, unless the critics hype it into ‘forbidden fruit’ with threats of boycotts, etc.
I love the Aussie “today” show...
It will be crushed by Hot Tub Time Machine.
Co-produced by Brad Pitt???
Not a chance in hell I would see it or let my kids see it.
Hot Tub Time Machine isn’t doing that well, either, actually. It’s not a bomb, but it’s sort of run its course at the box office already.
I was all set to see it but then I read that John Cusack had a line in the movie along the lines of “The 80s were so great. All we had were Reagan and AIDS.”
More liberal revisionism. Screw it.
Insane!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gone bad.
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gone bad.”
...or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gone good, not to argue the case for relativism.
Well, I never saw “Kill Bill”, it just seemed gratuitously violent. I thought “Pulp Fiction” was pretty funny, back in the day.
You can’t judge a film by it’s trailers, but it looks pretty clever ~ and at least entertaining ~ to me.
The Brad Pitt signature would probably be difficult for me to stomach, but that ain’t exactly a Matt Damon or Sean Penn imprimatur, which would make it off limits.
Mrs, Joe gives the title an “Oh my, that’s inappropriate” rating.
A little cussing, some violence,...can’t be all bad.
oh well ... never mind
Or maybe even an animal cruelty film.
“Kill Bill”, it just seemed gratuitously violent.
That was the whole point, a gratuitously violent parody of violent Japanese manga and samurai films. Tarantino is a genius, love him or hate him.
“Tarantino is a genius, love him or hate him.”
Don’t have to do either. One can claim a “not my cup of tea” exemption and you can still enjoy your Tarantino flicks.
Bon apetit.
My favorite Tarantino film.
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