Additional information for Kick-Ass, which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 16, 2010. The film is being distributed by Lionsgate and has not yet been rated. Kick-Ass has a total running time of 117 minutes.
18A
Canada
15
Denmark
R
USA
MA
Australia
15
UK
18
Ireland
R18
New Zealand
K-15
Finland
15
Norway
M18
Singapore
18
South Korea
16
Germany
14
Iceland
III
Hong Kong
R-13
Philippines
M/16
Portugal
16
Netherlands
16
Argentina
18
Brazil
16
Spain
U
France
15
Sweden
18
Malaysia
R15+
Japan
18
Peru
14
Chile
VM14
Italy
117min
Kick-Ass
Finland
Kick-Ass
Greece
Kick-Ass
Poland
Kick-Ass - Un superhéroe sin super poderes
Argentina
Kick-Ass - Un superhéroe sin super poderes
Mexico
Пипец
Russia
Ateini cia arba gausi i duda!
Lithuania
Fajter
Serbia
Ha/Ver
Hungary
Kick-Ass - O Novo Super-Herói
Portugal
Kick-Ass - Quebrando Tudo
Brazil
Kick-Ass. Listo para machacar
Spain
Kick-Ass: Un superheroe sin superpoderes
Uruguay
Kick-Ass: Uus superkangelane
Estonia
Un superhéroe sin superpoderes
Peru
March 12, 2010
USA
March 22, 2010
UK
March 26, 2010
Ireland
March 26, 2010
UK
April 01, 2010
Israel
April 08, 2010
Australia
April 08, 2010
New Zealand
April 09, 2010
Norway
April 09, 2010
Sweden
April 10, 2010
Finland
April 15, 2010
Bosnia and Herzegovina
April 15, 2010
Croatia
April 15, 2010
Denmark
April 15, 2010
Hong Kong
April 15, 2010
Kazakhstan
April 15, 2010
Malaysia
April 15, 2010
Netherlands
April 15, 2010
Russia
April 15, 2010
Singapore
April 15, 2010
Switzerland
April 15, 2010
Thailand
April 16, 2010
Austria
April 16, 2010
Canada
April 16, 2010
Finland
April 16, 2010
Iceland
April 16, 2010
Philippines
April 16, 2010
Poland
April 16, 2010
Taiwan
April 16, 2010
USA
April 20, 2010
Belgium
April 21, 2010
Egypt
April 21, 2010
France
April 21, 2010
Switzerland
April 22, 2010
Germany
April 22, 2010
Greece
April 22, 2010
Portugal
April 22, 2010
Romania
April 22, 2010
South Korea
April 23, 2010
Austria
April 23, 2010
South Africa
May 06, 2010
Czech Republic
May 17, 2010
Indonesia
May 27, 2010
Ukraine
June 04, 2010
Panama
June 04, 2010
Spain
June 08, 2010
Argentina
June 10, 2010
Argentina
June 17, 2010
Hungary
June 18, 2010
Brazil
June 18, 2010
Mexico
June 25, 2010
Lithuania
June 30, 2010
Estonia
August 12, 2010
Peru
September 03, 2010
Uruguay
September 09, 2010
Chile
September 16, 2010
Japan
December 18, 2010
Japan
April 01, 2011
Italy
July 02, 2011
Japan
I can't read your mind. But I can kick your ass.
I can't fly. But I can kick your ass.
I can't be invisible. But I can kick your ass.
I can't see through walls. But I can kick your ass.
Shut Up. Kick-Ass.
Have fear. They're here.
A new breed of superheroes will be revealed.
Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) opens the film with a narration about how superheroes come to existence. A man in a superhero costume stands on a skyscraper above a crowd ready to show the world his new flight suit. He jumps as people cheer before crashing into a taxi and dying. Dave comments that the man isn't him, just a delusional mental patient. He introduces himself as 'Kick Ass' and starts telling the story of his life.Six months earlier. Dave is a social misfit, a real natural-born geek, and a true nobody at his high school and invisible to all the girls. He has two good friends, Toddy and Marty, and spends his time at the local comic book store. His mother suddenly died of an aneurysm when Dave was 14 and he noticed that even when things change, they simply stay the same. He is in love with Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca) but she barely notices him. A genuine nice guy, he tries to reach out to people, including Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) the spoiled but lonely son of a local mobster but fails miserably when Dave's attemps to casually talk to Chris results in Chris' personal bodyguard scare Dave away because Chris is not allowed to have any friends. One day, after a conversation about superheroes at the local comic book café, Dave and Toddy are robbed by a pair of street gang members and Dave decides that he is going to be a superhero and fight crime. He orders a green-colored diving wet suit off the Internet and starts training to become a real crime fighter.After a few weeks of physical training, Dave sees the two men who robbed him and Todd trying to break into a car so Dave puts on his suit and confronts them. He tries to fight them, but the fight ends with Dave being brutally stabbed. He stumbles around as the thugs run away, only to be hit by a car, which drives off as fast as it can. Clinging to life in the back of an ambulance, he is rushed to the hospital but begs the paramedic to hide his suit. He is brought to the hospital naked, which starts rumors about what happened to him before his accident (heavily implied by others to be gay prostitution).A few months later, Dave is almost as good as new. He is full of metal plates and has numerous frayed nerve endings (granting him a higher pain threshold). He returns to school and is shocked that Katie is talking to him. Marty explains that Katie likes lame ducks and explains that the entire school thinks that Dave is a gay prostitute. Dave is horrified but comes to accept that this would be the only way to get closer to Katie. Despite these setbacks, Dave is still determined to be a superhero and sets up a MySpace account so that people can contact him and give him cases. One night, while looking for a cat, Dave fights off three attackers who were beating a defenseless man in front of a diner. Some patrons record the fight and post it on YouTube. Daves alter ego, 'Kick Ass', becomes an internet phenomenon.Across town, Frank D'Amico's (Mark Strong) thugs are torturing one of his associates who claims that a man who looks like Batman attacked their cocaine dealers and stole all of their drugs. Thinking it far more likely that the associate stole the cocaine for a profit, Frank has him tortured and killed before taking his son Chris out to the movies. Frank surrounds himself with a posse of thugs/bodyguards wherever he goes for both intimindation, as well as to protect himself from family members of rivals and people he has killed. However, Frank later learns that the information given to him was poor, so he sends his men to take care the Russian mobster he believes is responsible for messing with his shipments.The next morning, ex-policeman Damon MacReady (Nicholas Cage) points a gun at his 11-year-old daughter, Mindy (Chloe Moretz) and shoots her in the chest. Mindy stands up and is shocked by the force of the bullet on her armor. He is training her to be a vigilante to fight D'Amico's minions in his personal vendetta. The two see Kick Ass exploits: Damon is not impressed, but Mindy thinks that he has potential. Damon was sent to prison for five years, during which Mindy was raised by his former partner, Marcus. Because his wife died during his prison stint, Damon has made it his goal to avenge her by killing D'Amico's entire organization. He captures and manipulates several key members of D'Amico's crime syndicate to their (very brutal and violent) deaths. Marcus (Omari Hardwick) finds Damon and tells him that he has to end his vendetta before dirty cop Detective Gigante (Xander Berkeley) finds them or D'Amico does. He begs Damon to let him see Mindy, but realizing the futility of the attempt, he leaves telling Damon that he owes Mindy a real childhood. Damon colors a large of comic book style hit list and hangs it on the wall.As Kick Ass, Dave goes around saving people and gathering more supporters. As Katie's "gay" best friend, he gets closer to her and begins to get to know her as a person. One day, she mentions that a meth addict, named Rasul, at the clinic she volunteers at robbed her and smacked her around, refusing to leave her alone. Dave convinces her to message Kick Ass. That night, Kick Ass hunts down Rasul at his apartment. He attempts to intimidate him but fails miserably. Right as Rasul and his gang members are about to castrate Kick Ass, Mindy, dressed in a purple wig, mask, and black jumpsuit with a cape, shoots through the window and fights all of the gang members with knifes and a long spear until they are all dead. As the last gang member sneaks up behind her, Big Daddy (Damon) shoots him through the head with his sniper rifle from a different building. She introduces herself as 'Hit Girl' and begins stealing all of the gang members money and guns. The incompetent Dave/Kick Ass asks what is going on, Hit Girl tells him to come with her. They go to the roof and Hit Girl jumps across the rooftops to join her father. Kick Ass is too afraid to follow and the other two leave disappointed. Dave takes off his mask at home and cries himself to sleep, realizing that he's just an incompetent overgrown child and that there are other people better suited for his job.That same night, Big Daddy and Hit Girl pay Dave a visit at his house. They tell him that they were easily able to back trace his MySpace account and the three have a chat. Big Daddy tells him that he is doing okay, and that he has potential to be better. They tell him that if he ever needs to reach them he should decorate his MySpace with an 'On Vacation' banner, and that they will find a way to reach him.Meanwhile, Frank D'Amico learns that there are actual vigilantes going against his organization and gets pissed. Chris wants to get in on the business, but Frank just pushes him aside. Assuming that Kick Ass is the perpetrator, Frank kills an imitator in broad daylight thinking that it was the real Kick Ass. As things become tenser and more of his gang members are killed, Frank becomes willing to try anything. He contacts Detective Gigante and tells him to take care of Kick Ass. Gigante tells him that Kick Ass is in the morally gray area but that hell do his best. Chris offers an alternative suggestion: Let him don the identity of a superhero called the Red Mist, frame one of D'Amico's incompetent associates and trick Kick Ass into trusting him while leading him into an ambush.Chris executes his plan as Dave becomes more and more discouraged. He meets up with Red Mist and the two talk. Red Mist shows him his flashy sportscar and offers to be his side kick since Kick Ass inspired him. The two drive around and Red Mist takes him to the D'Amico stronghold, only to see it burning to the ground. Kick Ass is unaware that it was an ambush, but the two go into the building to see if they can save anyone. The bodies are horribly cut up and everyone is dead. Red Mist grabs a teddy bear on a wall and runs out of the building with Kick Ass as it explodes. The two part ways and Kick Ass resolves to give up the crime fighting business.Kick Ass goes to Katie's house to reveal his identity to her. She sprays him in the face and calls him a pervert until he de-masks. He tells that he isn't gay, that he's Kick Ass and that he loves her. He offers to go but she asks him to stay. The two start going out and having sex while Marty and Todd hang out with Katie's friend.Meanwhile, Frank D'Amico sees that the stronghold has burned down and is worried about his son. Chris returns and tells Frank that Kick Ass isn't the threat. He shows Frank the teddy bear, which has a Nanny Cam in it. They watch footage of Big Daddy killing all of D'Amico's men and burning the warehouse down. D'Amico realizes that this is a serious problem and convinces Chris to set up a trap to catch Big Daddy. Red Mist tries to contact Kick Ass and decides to set the plan in motion.Dave, who had given up on being Kick Ass for a week, sees Red Mists' e-mails and decides to go on one last mission for him. He tells Katie what hes doing and leaves. He and Red Mist meet up and set up the MySpace to contact Big Daddy. Big Daddy and Hit Girl are having hot chocolate and looking at their latest piece of purchased weaponry when they see the message. They send Kick Ass the meeting house location and Red Mist drives them there. As each hero gets ready for the meeting, the tension mounts. Red Mist drives Kick Ass to the location while D'Amico's men follow the van.Big Daddy opens the door as Hit Girl is perched on a window. He invites Kick Ass and Red Mist into the building when Red Mist pulls out his gun and shoots Hit Girl twice in the chest. As she falls out of the window, Big Daddy screams and D'Amico's men rush in and beat him and Kick Ass unconscious. As they put them in the back of a waiting van, Red Mist screams for them to let Kick Ass go since he considers him a friend and doesn't want to see him hurt. Chris bodyguard takes Big Daddy's bazooka as a reward and drags Chris home to his father. Chris complains about how Frank's men reneged on the deal, but Frank tells Chris to shut up and watch what happens next. He explains that Big Daddy is a no one, but that killing Kick Ass sends a message to all the punks considering becoming super heroes. Chris watches on in horror.The city of New York is shown a countdown for Kick Ass unmasking. Katie is shocked but happy for Dave and watches the countdown. Shes horrified when it shows Big Daddy and Kick Ass handcuffed to chairs about to be executed. D'Amico's men begin beating the pair brutally and stream it all online. They pour gasoline on Big Daddy and ignite him just as Hit Girl arrives to save them. She kills all the men in a brutal gunfight and extinguishes her father but it's too late. Big Daddy dies from his severe burns and tells Hit Girl that he loves her. Hit Girl saves Kick Ass and takes him to her father's old apartment. Dave tells her that it's over, but in a moment of self-reflection realizes that he is responsible. He agrees to help Hit Girl exact her revenge and takes up the mysterious piece of weaponry Big Daddy had bought and put together before his death.At Frank D'Amico's headquarters, his men are on double alert waiting for Kick Ass and Hit Girl to show up. At the lobby, the first guards are idly standing on duty when Mindy knocks at the front door, dressed in a school girl outfit. The doorman and guards, having never seen Mindy's face before, open the door to let her in. She tearfully says she can't find her parents. The doorman offers her his phone so she can call them. Suddenly the doorman starts to turn around and the guards see the little girl is thrusting the barrel of a big handgun right into the doorman's mouth. Mindy takes them all out easily.Mindy arrives at the penthouse floor back in her Hit Girl guise. Fighting with speed and stealth, she starts taking out more of D'Amico's men. When she runs out of bullets, one guard tries to advance and is taken out with throwing knives. The large thug runs to get a bazooka, to the shock and disgust of both Frank and Chris. The other thugs keep Hit Girl pinned down behind a counter, knowing she is out of ammunition but all too scared to charge in. The large thug is about to fire the bazooka when there is the sound of a machine. They turn and look out the window to see Kick-Ass outside with a rocket-pack strapped to his back, enabling him to fly. Two rapid-firing mini-guns protrude from the pack over his shoulders, and he wipes out the rest of the guards.In Frank's office, he and Chris hear the final sounds of the fire fight and think that the thugs were successful. But it is Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass that barge through the door, ready for the final showdown. Frank orders Chris to take on Kick-Ass. Chris is disgusted but rushes into battle. Frank squares off against Hit Girl.Kick-Ass and Chris (Red Mist) fight in the dojo. Both of them knock each other out cold, both falling to the floor. Hit Girl battles Frank ferociously, but with the leader of the D'Amico syndicate, Hit-Girl has finally met her match due to his own martial arts training. Frank becomes increasingly more ruthless, beating her to a pulp and slamming her through a coffee table. He retrieves his gun and prepares to kill Hit Girl, when suddenly he hears Kick-Ass suggesting he pick on someone his own size. Frank redirects his gun, but Kick-Ass is holding the bazooka. He fires, and the rocket propels Frank through the window and he is wiped out.Chris comes to and draws a katana (samurai sword), looking for a rematch, but finds Kick Ass activating the rocket pack and flying off with Hit Girl. The two land on a distant rooftop where Kick Ass unstraps the pack and sets both Hit-Girl and the pack down. Hit Girl thanks him for the help, saying Big Daddy would be proud of them both. Kick-Ass takes off his mask and tells her his real name, Dave Lizewski. Hit Girl finally consents to the gesture and takes off her wig and mask, showing him her face, and telling him her true name, Mindy MacReady. They shake hands and look toward the horizon.A voice-over from Dave begins as we see that Marcus has resumed guardianship of Mindy, and she now lives with him and is enrolled at Dave's school, on the promise that he'd look out for her... not that she'd need it, as Dave says, and we watch an amusing scene where two school bullies try to shake the "new kid" down for her lunch money, and she smiles and cracks her knuckles. Dave's voice-over continues as we see him and his friends at a coffee shop, and that "Kick Ass" has become a cultural sensation with a comic strip, though as Dave says, he is now retired from crime-fighting... there are a whole new wave of inspired people following in his footsteps.But in the final scene, back in Frank D'Amico's office where we see one who is equally determined to bring the new "super-heroes" down... Chris, as the new Red Mist, with a revamped costume and donning a super-villain mask. He vows revenge against Kiss Ass, Hit Girl, and any other superhero wannabe that gets in his away for his father's death. Chris aims his gun at the camera and fires, and the screen goes blank and the credits roll.
Matthew Vaughn
Director(s)
Jane Goldman
Matthew Vaughn
Mark Millar
John Romita Jr.
Writer(s)
Adam Bohling
producer
Darren Goldberg
line producer: New York
Jane Goldman
co-producer
Jeremy Kleiner
executive producer
Lyn Lucibello
line producer: Toronto
Stephen Marks
executive producer
Mark Millar
executive producer
Tarquin Pack
producer
Brad Pitt
producer
David Reid
producer
John Romita Jr.
executive producer (as John S. Romita Jr.)
Kris Thykier
producer
Matthew Vaughn
producer
Producer(s)
Marius De Vries
Ilan Eshkeri
Henry Jackman
John Murphy
Composer(s)
Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass
Aaron Johnson
Mr. Lizewski
Garrett M. Brown
Todd
Evan Peters
Mrs. Zane
Deborah Twiss
Katie Deauxma
Lyndsy Fonseca
Erika Cho
Sophie Wu
Mrs. Lizewski
Elizabeth McGovern
Chris D'Amico / Red Mist
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Huge Goon (as Stu Riley)
Stu 'Large' Riley
1st Gang Kid
Johnny Hopkins
2nd Gang Kid
Ohene Cornelius
Frank D'Amico
Mark Strong
Big Joe
Michael Rispoli
Sporty Goon
Corey Johnson
Scary Goon
Kenneth Simmons
Baby Goon
Anthony Desio
Buttons
Carlos Besse Peres
Tre Fernandez
Randall Batinkoff
Cody
Dexter Fletcher
Marty
Clark Duke
Mindy Macready / Hit-Girl
Chloë Grace Moretz
Damon Macready / Big Daddy
Nicolas Cage
Medic
Russell Bentley
Lobby Goon
Jason Flemyng
Matthew
Tamer Hassan
Angie D'Amico
Yancy Butler
Ginger Goon
Adrian Martinez
Danil
Tim Plester
Posh Goon
Joe Bacino
Oscar Juarez
Hubert Boorder
Diner Fight Guy #1 (as Chris McGuire)
Christopher McGuire
Diner Fight Guy #2
Max White
Diner Fight Guy #3
Dean Copkov
Running Teenager
Jacob Cartwright
News Anchor
Maurice DuBois
News Anchor
Dana Tyler
Himself
Craig Ferguson
Leroy (as Omar Soriano)
Omar A. Soriano
Female Junkie
Katrena Rochell
Rasul
Kofi Natei
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Director(s)
Matthew Vaughn
Mark Millar
John Romita Jr.
Writer(s)
producer
Darren Goldberg
line producer: New York
Jane Goldman
co-producer
Jeremy Kleiner
executive producer
Lyn Lucibello
line producer: Toronto
Stephen Marks
executive producer
Mark Millar
executive producer
Tarquin Pack
producer
Brad Pitt
producer
David Reid
producer
John Romita Jr.
executive producer (as John S. Romita Jr.)
Kris Thykier
producer
Matthew Vaughn
producer
Producer(s)
Ilan Eshkeri
Henry Jackman
John Murphy
Composer(s)
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