Not just good it's great.  Kids show yes but charming as a motherfucker and twice as clever.

I liked the part where Dawson finally stood up the bullies who were mocking his pizza delivery jacket and banging his crush.

Games that do it better in terms of your choices paying off in the endings:

That was my first thought too.

Choices do matter.  Not necessarily in the final 3 minutes of the game, but everything up to that - what characters and races live of dies, etc.

Kick-Ass the movie is about 800 million times better than the comic.  Most of that is due to The Great Nic Cage.

Wanted was shit in the shit spirit.  A shitty movie based on an even shittier comic featuring shit "dialogue" (ironic quotes because it's hardly dialogue when the actors talk shit one-liners at each other), shit premise, and the shittiest of all possible of all possible MacGuffins (the Looooooooooooooom!!).  It had a…

Surely VM takes place in a heightened reality setting though.  I mean, "teen detective" and all…

Surprised there was no mention of Waters until this far into the comments (or the review itself!).  The guy wrote Heathers, Demolition Man, and Batman Returns (hugely underrated camp screenplay), Hudson Hawke and Ford Fairlaine (depending on how you feel about those last two).  He should be an A.V. club icon.