The Green Hornet (2011)

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[It] clocks in at a bloated 118 minutes. There is not, I promise you, 118 minutes worth of vital plot, special effects or comic business in this movie.

October 7, 2011 Full Review

Leah Rozen

The Wrap

Top Critic

Part origin story, part spoof, part bromance -- the movie can't decide. It winks at itself constantly, but only to hide its cluelessness.

February 4, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

A facetious industrial product, and the first out-and-out bore of the year.

January 24, 2011 Full Review | Comments (7)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

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.

January 21, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

The Green Hornet doesn't seem worth the outrageous 3-D-glasses surcharge. In all senses, there's little that jumps out at you.

January 18, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

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.

January 14, 2011 Full Review

Christopher Orr

The Atlantic

Top Critic

I like Seth, you like Seth. We all like Seth. BADLY miscast, here. And so was the director.

January 15, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

A pleasingly average superhero movie whose greatest triumph is avoiding disaster.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

This had potential to be something of an action thrill ride, or at least a comedic, campy take on the usual superhero formula, but what we end up with is a directionless, pointless backdrop for blowing things up with some martial arts thrown in for kicks.

September 21, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

A dud, that has a few bright spots.

February 22, 2012 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

There are some good ideas here but they're buried under masses of conventional superhero dross and half hearted execution. This is one vigilante who should really just leave all the hard work to the police.

December 13, 2011 Full Review

Laurence Boyce

The Baltic Times

Hornet fans across generations will enjoy connecting this modern version to its pop-cultural roots stretching back more than seven decades,

September 9, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Neil Pond

American Profile

A childish film written from a grade school perspective with neither quality nor excitement.

August 15, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Derivative of several molds and unable to really take command of any of them.

June 3, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

Aside from a brief split-screen sequence and a few deft special-effects, there's almost no sizzle to this goofy take on superheroics.

June 1, 2011 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

The Green Hornet marginally succeeds where Kick-Ass and Super have failed miserably in perverting superhero stereotypes and boasts an expectedly excellent transfer from Sony.

May 19, 2011 Full Review

Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

...an uneven, disastrously overlong piece of work.

May 1, 2011 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Give me loose, idiosyncratic, comic meandering over stone-faced business-as-usual any day. It isn't the movie you're expecting, but it's got its authors' grubby handprints all over it.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

For what problems it does have it is a genuinely different take on this kind of material with a firm focus on action, character and humor. No one else should ever attempt to make a superhero movie quite like this, but for The Green Hornet it works.

March 22, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Seeing this movie in 3-D adds nothing to the experience. The most in-your-face thing about the movie is the crippling insecurity of all the main players, which rendered it painfully difficult to care about them. Waltz is delightful.

March 18, 2011 Full Review

Karina Montgomery

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Gondry and Rogen walk a fine line between fairly brainless bro-medy and occasionally knowing examination of the superhero genre.

March 6, 2011 Full Review

Pete Vonder Haar

Houston Press

full review at Movies for the Masses

March 1, 2011 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

• 1. Kato: Yes, it's works!
  – Submitted by Arum N (15 months ago)
• 1. Kato: I don't want to talk. I barely speak English.
  2. Britt Reid/The Green Hornet: You're speaking English right now!
  – Submitted by Augustine S (15 months ago)
• 1. Britt Reid/The Green Hornet: The Green Hornet. His reliable partner, the Blue Wombat.
  – Submitted by Augustine S (15 months ago)
• 1. Kato: Want to see something cool?
  – Submitted by Nick W (17 months ago)
• 1. Britt Reid/The Green Hornet: It's not dying that you need be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.
  – Submitted by Kaye E (21 months ago)
• 1. James Reid: So Britt, here we are again. Sent home after another schoolyard fight. I know you miss your mother. So do I. But I have to take care of 750 employees, and you have to take care of yourself. Still that seems to be asking too much.
  2. Young Britt: But I was trying to stop some bullies-
  3. James Reid: Trying doesn't matter if you always fail! (Wrenches Britt's action figure from his grasp, while Britt screams 'No! NO!')
  4. James Reid: You think it makes me happy to do this?
  5. Young Britt: Yes!
  – Submitted by Tamsin P (22 months ago)

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