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The Green Hornet
The Green Hornet

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Seth Rogen, Jay Chou
Jan 14, 2011
PG-13, 1 hr. 59 min.

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Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz, David Harbour, Edward James Olmos, Jamie Harris, Chad Coleman, Edward Furlong
Director: Michel Gondry
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr. 59 min.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
Theater Release: Jan 14, 2011
DVD Release: May 03, 2011
Synopsis: In the 3D action-comedy The Green Hornet, Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of LA's most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene - until his father (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Striking an unlikely friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives: fight crime. To get close to the criminals, they come up with the perfect cover: they'll pose as criminals themselves. Protecting the law by breaking it, Britt becomes the vigilante The Green Hornet as he and Kato hit the streets. Using all his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds the ultimate in advanced retro weaponry, Black Beauty, an indestructible car equal parts firepower and horsepower. Rolling in a mobile fortress on wheels and striking the bad guys with Kato's clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves, and with the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they begin hunting down the man who controls LA's gritty underworld: Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). But Chudnofsky has plans of his own: to swat down The Green Hornet once and for all. -- (C) Sony

Critic Reviews

  • Rafer Guzman, Newsday
    Part origin story, part spoof, part bromance -- the movie can't decide. It winks at itself constantly, but only to hide its cluelessness.
  • David Denby, New Yorker
    A facetious industrial product, and the first out-and-out bore of the year.
  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
    Despite its obvious angling to become a franchise, this Green Hornet offers little that's worth committing to even the "cult flick" chamber of your brain.
  • David Edelstein, New York Magazine
    The Green Hornet doesn't seem worth the outrageous 3-D-glasses surcharge. In all senses, there's little that jumps out at you.
  • Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
    There are elements of a sharp hero/sidekick inversion here: Kato is the handsome, brilliant inventor and karate expert; Britt is, well, rich enough to pay the salary of someone like Kato. But the inversion is inevitably incomplete.
  • Adam Graham, Detroit News
    A big, sloppy, loud, grating mess of a movie.
  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
    Here's a 3-D movie that should have been shot in Zero-D.
  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
    The big-screen Green Hornet, while hardly classic comic-book filmmaking, ain't half bad.
  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
    Once you get to the fiends and fights that make a comic book movie really work, things go stale.
  • Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
    An anemic, 97-pound weakling of the action comedy persuasion, "Hornet" is a boring bromedy that features mumblecore heroics instead of the real thing.
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