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So, speaking as someone with no relations in any movies - I'd venture to say Kick-Ass is the best super hero movie out.

Ok, so what about Batman? you ask. Or Iron Man?
Those were amazing films. Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker was stellar. RDJ chews up the scenery like crazy, then blows it up behind him.

But look how many tries at Batman it took them to do it right, honestly. How hard a concept is Batman? You have tons and tons and tons of great material, an iconic character, dark and gritty built in, and mass fan appeal. Its successes were built off of having clear cut ideas what not to do, and even then, trying to find someone who pulls off both Bruce Wayne and Batman - yeah, not so certain they nailed that one, sorry. And when you're supposedly telling Batman's story, and end up telling Harvey Dent's, for which Batman is a supporting character - sure, it was exciting, but I'd like Batman to carry a little more of the acting and story load if I'm going to call it 'the best'. His villains storytold circles around him.

Iron Man - wow, RDJ was amazing. He nails Tony Stark, cold. The villain was good, the action was really well done - I loved them really pulling out the stops to do an aerial chase scene. The supporting cast ranged from good to excellent. But again, a lot of material to work with, and a massive budget, so there should be high expectations. Shoehorning Tony into the Avengers by having Nick Fury go all 'mysterious stranger' - there's really a solution here, we know it, but we're not going to tell you what it is, neener, neener - now join the Avengers - and then having Tony figure it out then... instead of, say, just having him figure it out... and adding a Howard Stark 'failed tear-jerker moment' did nothing for me either as a plot point.
Great movie, not the best.

Kick-Ass - the entire cast, with only one debatably A-list actor did a stellar job. They got Nick Cage to act in support of an unknown child actress and make her role stronger instead of trying to gnaw on the scenery himself. They melded their humor and grit nicely. The action built and built steadily. They had an untested premise, nothing like the budget of those other movies, a young cast... and they knocked it out of the park. The soundtrack hit on all cylinders, everyone did their job, most of the characters with any screen time were nuanced and actually, within their concept, pretty believable.
It didn't have some of the high budget pretty the others did - I posit that its a better movie for accomplishing what it did without those things, on a tenth of the budget.