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Excellent but underrated film

best movie i've ever seen.

Absolutely brilliant

I wanted to like The Green Hornet, but this movie just doesn't work. The film spends so much time being silly that it isn't effective when it tries to be serious. Also, I think they rely too heavily on improvisation in their dialogue and let the characters rant, mumble or argue for too long. It has a few fun parts, but this movie will not be added to my superhero film canon.

The Green Hornet is Michel Gondry's first crack at a conventional story. Based on a 1930's radio show, this new turn out evenly distributes its hits and misses. Seth Rogen, as the millionaire man-child Britt Reid, has freedom to do as he pleases. Co-writing the script alongside long time friend Evan Goldberg, there's small disparity from their previous work (Superbad, Pineapple Express) i.e less improvisation. Rogen is perfect for the role, floundering his immaturity even after his father (Wilkinson) dies. He washes away the idea of succeeding his father as CEO of the family newspaper company, rehires his coffee maker, Kato (Chou) and becomes a masked vigilante. Rogen's in the backseat of this ride; Kato is a martial arts expert, weapons maker, mechanic and a life saver. He even (almost) gets the girl (Britt's secretary Cameron Diaz). Britt squabbles a great deal but does bring the fun and amusement. They are a highly engrossing pair. Gondry plays on our expectations; Rogen and Chou are equals, the fighting is tough and adventurous and Christoph Waltz's mob-boss has idiosyncratic flaws. The Green Hornet won't make you laugh out loud but it will exceed usual linear expectations. Watch it for Franco's cameo if not for anything else.

When Van Williams and the great Bruce Lee made The Green Hornet and Kato famous back in 1966, who would have thought that 45 years later in 2011 that funny-man Seth Rogen and Jay Chou would team up and suit up in the Green & Black suits to keep the tradition alive? I don't think none of us saw that coming. I have to give director Michael Gondry his props, he delivered a one-of-a-kind movie that has started the new year off with a bang, slap, ka-bow. Incredible!!!! I can't leave out the wonderful supporting cast. We have seen her in Gangs of New York, we've learned that there was Something About Mary – Cameron Diaz delivered in this movie. And who can't forget about the villain – Chudnofsky aka Bloodnofsky (I guess I spelled that correctly) – Christoph Waltz was awesome. I was expecting a cheesy movie, but I got a rib-eye steak and a baked potato – this movie was off-the-hook.

Aw! Poor rich-kid, Britt Reid. When he was but a sniveling, little brat of 8 his mean, old daddy tore the head right off one of his fave dolls, I mean, action-figures, and threw it away in disgust 'cause he resented his son for being such a wimp, playing with dolls.And this traumatic doll-decapitation ordeal by Daddy-Dearest scarred poor, little Britt for life. So, 20 years later you'll never guess how Britt (still a big, spoiled-rotten baby to the core) exacts his revenge against papa (who, of course, is now dead so Britt doesn't have to fret about being disinherited by the bastard).You know, the fact that Elmer Fudd, I mean, Seth Rogen, was actor/writer/producer of this stinking turd-of-a-movie explains everything very clearly to me. I think that Rogen (a real doofus dimwit) is the absolute personification of a talking sphincter who's got drippy diarrhea of the mouth and, yes, pure s-h-i-t for brains.This truly tiresome "seen-it-all-before" mess-of-a-movie scrapes the absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to Comedy/Action/Superhero flicks. I honestly swear that this one's story was being made up as they went along.Thank goodness that the Green Hornet character didn't have any superpowers to boast about, 'cause, being the repulsive, self-loving slime that Rogen portrayed him as being, having any amazing abilities would've surely rendered him as being utterly vile and obnoxious beyond endurance.It really figured that it was, in fact, Kato who was the real genius behind the Green Hornet.I'm actually surprised that the self-centered Rogen (who co-wrote the script) allowed his character's blatant stupidity and uselessness to be revealed so clearly - 'Cause, with Kato being the brains of this less-than-dynamic-duo, this certainly reduced Rogen's Britt Reid character, of a bored, ass-wipe billionaire, to the level of being a complete blood-sucking leech who uses others for their skills and abilities and then thinks nothing of taking all of the credit for the good that may result from what others have accomplished.As of yet, I have not seen The Green Hornet TV series from 1966 which starred Van Williams as The Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato - But, I have seen The Green Hornet serial from 1940 which starred Gordon Jones and Keye Luke in their respective roles....And, let me tell ya - In spite of all its many flaws, its b-grade effects, its laughable dialogue, etc-etc-etc, this vintage offering from 1940 was definitely about 100 times more entertaining and exciting than this disgustingly dismal and completely contemptible remake would ever be.It makes no sense to me why Rogen had to go and ruin the likes of The Green Hornet. Why couldn't he have just invented a whole, new superhero to please his over-inflated ego? Why did he have to go and utterly disgrace and belittle the likes of The Green Hornet? Why-oh-why? I honestly don't understand.It really is too bad that this $120 million miscalculation of precious, little Seth's didn't affect his popularity nor change the path of his acting career. But, I see that his rabid fans still love him to pieces and his brain-dead movies are still being rapidly churned out, ad nauseum.You know, the truth is, this detestable-excuse-for-a-movie isn't really worth writing a review about, at all. But, hey, I did waste nearly 2 hours watching this lousy piece of junk, so, I figure that I might as well make some sort of honest effort to try to trash it the best that I can.But, alas, it is of a great misfortune, indeed, that mere words are just not sufficient enough to express how I really feel about Seth Rogen and The Green Hornet.So, there!