>I enjoyed it. But at the same time I agreed with Ebert.
>
>At first I thought it was trying to say, if you try to be a
>superhero, you are disillusioned, immature or outright insane,
>and you will probably end up catching a critical ass whooping.
>
>
>But then the superheroes actually are superheroes, and not
>only that but they kill without remorse. The main character
>gets the girl, has a few action hero lines, and (most of) the
>heroes are okay at the end despite getting the kind of hurt
>that would send people into the emergency room.
>
>On top of the fact that Hit Girl wasn't beating up the bad
>guys, she was slicing the fuck out of them and shooting to
>kill.

She was also desensitized by her father. You think those little boys in Africa carrying AKs weren't desensitized to do that. From birth that girl wasn't raised as a little girl. She was raised as a little adult so that she could carry out the mission her and her father felt they had to do to avenge the death of her mother. Kinda like how kids are desensitized by sex because it's all over t.v. now.


>I know comic books have evolved since I was reading them
>regularly, but these 'superheroes' were all like The Punisher
>rather than Spiderman, and The Punisher always had that
>morally ambiguous tone to it.

You must not have been reading Spider-Man Noir or The Dark Avengers, all that's been going on IS killing.

>I was okay with the violence in The Watchmen, cause it worked
>for the world that they created. Kick-Ass was both set in a
>comic book world AND a world that acknowledges that trying to
>be a superhero is silly.

The difference of Watchmen was that those guys had super-powers so it was set in a fantasy world. Yes, the heroes involved acted like real adults but they were still in a fantasy world. Kick-Ass set in a real-life situation. And if ANYONE were to walk outside in a green and yellow outfit and do that,everyone would say it's silly, because it is. It just so happened that there were more skilled people out there helping him.

>At the end of the day, I enjoyed it. But especially in these
>'Virginia Tech' times, I also kind of had a problem with it.

Virginia Tech hasn't changed anything because before VT there was Columbine High School and PLENTY of movies with more gratuitous violence than this have been released since then.