In the movie, Hit Girl shoots a man in the face with a gun and at one stage in the movie tells her opponents: "OK you c---- let's see what you can do now."

The [MA] rating has outraged Australian family groups who are reluctant to discredit it openly, fearing it would publicise the movie further. Australian Family Association spokesman John Morrissey said:

"The language is offensive and the values inappropriate - without the saving grace of the bloodless victory of traditional superheroes."

They should get over it and not go watch the movie if it is so offensive! No one is forcing them to watch. I really hate things like this because it is going to ruin it for people with an open mind that are actually looking forward to watching the movie!

" They should get over it and not go watch the movie if it is so offensive! No one is forcing them to watch. I really hate things like this because it is going to ruin it for people with an open mind that are actually looking forward to watching the movie! "

I have to agree with your points. It's not like the movie is being marketed as a family oriented movie so I don't understand why these people have a problem with it. Granted, yes it does star children but once again the movie isn't being marketed as wholesome family entertainment. So they need to let people make their own choices of what the deem is appropriate or not for they themselves to watch. I hate people like that. You're not my parents so don't tell me what I should or shouldn't watch. We have free will for a reason so we can pick and choose what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

I know people get so worked up about movies that are clearly rated. People need to pay attention to those ratings. When I saw Step Brothers in the theater I was surprised at how many kids there were....of course they started leaving after 15 minutes.
 
A good movie about censorship and how films are rated is 'This film is not yet rated'.

wait I thought this was a family film

This is inappropriately and offensively hilarious.

at no point does it claim to be a family film 
and the ads arent on telly yet, only the great interwebs
the ad where hit-girl said c**t is a red banner ad 
those people are fu(king stupid in my opinion

""Values inappropriate" This is subjective, and for me personally, I'm pro-vigilantism in extreme cases, so I may think that some of the values portrayed in this film are completely appropriate. 

I'm going to bring my five year old cousin to see it.

Wait, I thought we wanted to encourage our twelve-year-old girls to be foul-mouthed, homicidal, weapons masters?

Ass isn't a swear word.  It's as offensive as saying bottom ;) 
 
But this is about the same country that banned From Hell (the book) despite the fact that the author lives there.

Some of the trailers for the movie really haven't sold just how violent this movie is going to be. I saw the movie Avatar with my mother over the holidays. It had a trailer for the Kick-Ass movie. She thought from the trailer that this was a kids movie. She couldn't understand why I was so surprised to see a trailer for this movie with Avatar, a PG-13 movie. I later sent her a link to the 'red band' trailer for the movie. She understood about the movie then.
 
Though, these groups piss me off that assume that everything must be made appropriate for kids. Such as with video games. Seems that these groups want everything to be kid approved, because they are just too damn lazy to check to see if something is or isn't right for their kids.

" @inferiorego said:

""Values inappropriate" This is subjective, and for me personally, I'm pro-vigilantism in extreme cases, so I may think that some of the values portrayed in this film are completely appropriate. 

agree with everything but this, on the basis that the message in Kick-Ass! is "anti-vigilantism" in that it points out the 
dire consequences that would ensue if a person were to try being a superhero in real life. the very opening scene of 
both the comic and movie is of a wannabe superhero trying to fly of a building and falling to his death as result.
if anything, this family should be irate with the people that are in fact trying this in real life (you know who you are).
 
as for the taboo and possibly crude theme...the movies name is Kick-Ass! lol. its again akin to buying a magazine
called i dunno, Tig Bitties and being offended to find gratuitous nudity.
 
for the record: i mean no offense to the Tig Bitties magazine and their sister publications. "

what business would kids have to go see it anyway, it's not for kids

This really stems out of something very simple: Stigmatizing superheroes as only kids stuff. Very clearly this is not a children’s movie and an intelligent satire of the entire superhero genre, yet…it has superheroes…it must be for kids, right? Sigh! When will this stigma stop?     
 
I get really annoyed with people overly offended by words. If it's not in the context of an insult or if it's something like in a film...I fail to see how it's somehow "bad". In fact, I'm bothered by the fact that we can't swear here.

Our lives are not rated G, so why do others think that's all we should view?

     Thank YOU !!

People just love somthing to moan about.

In the wise words of Wesley Gibson &%$# you AFA!

Duh?
 
If a film has a red band trailer, paired with a title like Kick-Ass, it's clearly not intended for the same audience as Finding Nemo.

Nicholas Cage is in Kick-Ass isn't he? Well there you have it. He should be rated Mature/Restricted/18A anyway. Or just make him stop making movies.

" @Kurrent said:

" They should get over it and not go watch the movie if it is so offensive! No one is forcing them to watch. I really hate things like this because it is going to ruin it for people with an open mind that are actually looking forward to watching the movie! "

Best part is, I'm not excited for this film, and I really don't like the comic. But to spite groups like that, I'm going to see it twice on opening weekend. "

They make the film Rated-R. They put a red-band before the trailer. Warnings of the film's graphic and vulgar nature have been given. And yet, families STILL find a way to complain about the movie. Sometimes, I wonder about humanity.

Wow. Uhm, Rated R for a reason... Wow. *rubs eyes* Oh well. I'm still seein' it. lol

Well gee,what did you think would come out of a movie called "Kick-Ass"?
"Gosh darn it" and "Golly Gee"?

I am not gonna watch it but not because of language but because it has Nic Cage in it

You should be more offended of how crappy Kick-Ass really is. Thankz Mark Millar, thankz a whole lot.

" You should be more offended of how crappy Kick-Ass really is. Thankz Mark Millar, thankz a whole lot. "

As Catman said, they probably just watched the trailer. So the headline could be: "Family watches film trailer, gets pissed-off"

People should be more offended that Nicholas Cage keeps getting work.

" People should be more offended that Nicholas Cage keeps getting work. "

"People just love somthing to moan about. "

I agree.  This whole article reeks of moaning.

I mean, at least the people in those organizations represent other people, making the voicing of their opinons at least somewhat useful.  The people who look to them for their opinion have been sated. 
 
Honestly, this article is more offensive than the groups voicing their opinions of the movie.  I mean, do we really have to be lectured about the fact that some people have differing values or find some language inappropriate and how it's all subjective? 

No sh*t, sherlock.

Unless these organizations are attempting to ban the movie (nothing in the article says that) then why do you care what they say?  Whining about them is like the same thing they're doing about the movie, making this whole article quite ironic (which I love, btw)  Keep up the good work! ;)