From a Kick-Ass sequel to Will Smith kicking alien ass in the ’90s, these comic book movies are one of many reasons to check out your Prime Video subscription.
Although most people don’t subscribe to Amazon Prime for the streaming service, it’s one of the nicest bonuses out there. Prime Video has a pretty deep library of great titles worth exploring, including some that were adapted from other mediums.
Sometimes, those mediums are TV shows or video games, but in an era when everyone is mining the comic book store for some title that hasn’t been adapted yet, some of them are also comic books. The movies on this list aren’t all superhero movies, but they came from comic books originally, and each one of them is well worth checking out for yourself.Kick-Ass (2010)
Adapted from a comic of the same name, Kick-Ass follows an anonymous high school who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers or skills to speak of. What follows is an outstanding black comedy that pokes fun at the superhero genre while still spending plenty of time on a loving homage.
With a stellar supporting cast that includes Nicolas Cage as a grizzled superhero villain and Mark Strong doing his villainous best, Kick-Ass deserves to be remembered as one of the great comedies of the superhero era, even if things do get a little dark at times.
