Wonder Woman: 11 Awesome Superhero Movies It Destroyed Critically

9. Kick-Ass

Hit Girl Kick Ass
Universal Pictures

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 76% (7.1/10)

In fairness, it's mind-boggling that Kick-Ass managed to rack up such a high critical approval rating considering its incredibly risque tone and controversial depiction of a child superhero, but Matthew Vaughn executes the R-rated carnage with such aplomb that he somehow managed to get away with it.

As a meta superhero flick, Kick-Ass shares little tonal or thematic similarity to the earnest and goofy Wonder Woman, though it does also feature a heroine who isn't afraid to splatter bad guys much larger than her, so that's a common ground for you.

Wonder Woman is the much classier, sturdier and generally more agreeable of the two movies as far as broad audience is concerned, so it makes a lot of sense that it'd come out victorious.

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