Kick Ass

Funny, irreverent, original, action-packed and surprising. This is a whirlwind ride through the ultimate childhood fantasy – to be an action hero.

Laugh out loud funny this screenplay, hits comedy notes both light and dark. Set in the world of comic book geeks, it does what it says on the tin from the start. it uses a linear three act structure, with a narrator that introduces and concludes the story, interspersing information throughout in a comic book style.

This is a world of teenagers, so there is not a lot of depth to the characters, but that is okay because that is who makes up this story world, think American Pie. This screenplay is upfront and honest about that from the start and does not try to be anything more. The characters lives consist of girls, wanking and comic books. In short the audience knows who they are because the writers did.

Kick Ass is not an impressive superhero, he has an ill-fitting suit that is anything but sexy but this is what makes it real. If an ordinary person dressed in a superhero suit this is what they would look like, as an audience we get this and we also admire that this guy is trying to do something good, out of the ordinary, different.

This film has some great action sequences, especially in the 3rd climatic act, made all the more entertaining because it is the skills of the eleven year old Hit Girl that surpass all others. There is some great dialogue, this film catches you by surprise and takes you on a hilarious romp of teenage fantasy. It is a film that knows what it is and because of that anything is possible.

The premise is strong – a teenager wants to fight crime so disguises himself as a superhero and in doing so collides with a world of other amateur superheros and gets in over his head with the real criminals. A good premise is the foundation, the first building block in any screenplay, from that you will get the genre and if a writer stays true to it and the characters he or she creates your screenplay will be onto a winning formula from the start.




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