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Part origin story, part spoof, part bromance -- the movie can't decide. It winks at itself constantly, but only to hide its cluelessness.
A facetious industrial product, and the first out-and-out bore of the year.
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.
The Green Hornet doesn't seem worth the outrageous 3-D-glasses surcharge. In all senses, there's little that jumps out at you.
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.
A big, sloppy, loud, grating mess of a movie.
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.
[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.
Hornet fans across generations will enjoy connecting this modern version to its pop-cultural roots stretching back more than seven decades,
A childish film written from a grade school perspective with neither quality nor excitement.
Derivative of several molds and unable to really take command of any of them.
Aside from a brief split-screen sequence and a few deft special-effects, there's almost no sizzle to this goofy take on superheroics.
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.
...an uneven, disastrously overlong piece of work.
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.
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.
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.
Gondry and Rogen walk a fine line between fairly brainless bro-medy and occasionally knowing examination of the superhero genre.
full review at Movies for the Masses
Um longa que não só desaponta pelo roteiro, mas também (e aí o choque é maior) pela direção nada inspirada de seu realizador.
With Jäger, it'd probably be a blast.
Gondry's biggest success is recognising that superheroes can still be funny, and embracing that in every part of this film.
3D, 4D. You can throw double-D's at The Green Hornet, and you'll still end up with C-minus.
Rogen takes what should have and could have been one of the most unique antithesis' to Batman and transforms it in to a vanity project for his one note comedy and flat one-liners...
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