Girls Can 'Kick-Ass' Too!

I always try to make time to watch the latest movies that interest me. One of the movies I picked up was Kick-Ass. It's an action movie developed from a comic book by the same name.

Between the swearing and blood and guts, there is a very positive message: Not only can normal people be "super heroes," but girls can "kick ass" too and be the best at it.

I was curious what type of person had this frame of mind to think outside of the norm and I was impressed when I found out this person is a man. Mark Millar created the comic book that brought the film to life. He's the one who believed an average teenager by the name of Dave Lizewski could transform himself into Kick-Ass, the superhero, and that a girl by the name of Mindy Macready could become   Hit-Girl and help Kick-Ass, well, kick ass.

Chloe Moretz, who plays Hit-Girl, does a great job as a believeable ass kicker and is the latest young starlet to impress me since a young Dakota Fanning.

As funny as it sounds, I never thought a movie with the title of Kick-Ass would be able to empower me, but it did just that. Finally, a movie where an actress doesn't play a victim, sex object, or even a woman who eventually gets to kick ass but has to do so half-clothed, looking like she is in some sort of sexual position. Case in point, Angelina Jolie. She always seems to play a "kick-ass" sex object like in her Tomb Raider films or in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

 I'm glad there is a movie out there such as Kick-Ass that shows us that if a little girl can kick ass, so can women...without having to be sexy. A second film is already in the works and hopefully in the near future a Hit-Girl spinoff.

This whole idea of women not being equal in the workforce, in a relationship, in the world definately needs its ass kicked! So ladies out there, brush up on your karate skills and your inner strength and let's kick some ass!