So we finally get our first look at Kick-Ass in action. I won’t go into the plot too much but basically it’s like Watchmen without the chip fat facial or the awkward sex scenes. It stars Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy), Nicolas Cage, Chloe Moretz (500 Days of Summer), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad) and has Mark Strong playing the bad guy. He must have a dastardly face as he’s also playing the adversary to Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes later this year.

Kick-Ass is one of those films that has had quite a buzz surrounding it due to some clever online promotion and of course the ever reliable fanboys who keep the word on the web flowing. Check out the trailer, I think the buzz is warranted…

Judging purely from this, Kick-Ass looks like it continues the trend of that certain type of teen movie where nerds and outsiders are the protagonists, films that often contain more than a sprinkling of that ironic and self conscious American Indie flavour. But of course it’s a superhero movie as well, granted the heroes lack the ’super’ of your Spidermans and X-Men but even so it will be interesting to see if the two genres/sub-genres combine as successfully as the trailer suggests. We’ll have to wait a while to find out though as the scheduled release date is not until April 16th of next year.

What do you think of the trailer? Also I’m interested to know from anyone who is a fan of the comics if, judging by this, it is in keeping with tone?