a5c7b9f00b When the publisher of "The Daily Sentinel" dies, his son Britt Reid inherits his newspaper. The idle Britt is a playboy that parties all the time with women and hates his father but he is forced to become the new publisher. He also meets his father's mechanic Kato, who is a skilled fighter of kung fu, and they decide to fight crime for fun wearing masks. Britt uses "The Daily Sentinel" to promote "The Green Hornet" and his sidekick, attracting the attention of the kingpin Chudnofsky, Now the Green Hornet is chased not only by the police, but also by Chudnofsky that is hunting him down. Playboy Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) becomes the new publisher of Los Angeles' "The Daily Sentinel" after the sudden death of his father. Britt's party life is about to change when he and his driver and kung fu expert, Kato (Jay Chou), stop a robbery. With the help of Kato, Britt starts a new career of fighting crime as the masked superhero "The Green Hornet". I am confused by all the NEGATIVE reviews of this film. Seriously, what gives? Early during the pre-production stage when the cast was announced and Seth Rogen was cast as the lead in a superhero film, I had my doubts. Nevermind that I knew nothing about the Green Hornet's origins in radio or even the sixties television version.<br/><br/>What and who's the Green Hornet? A quick wikipedia search lead me to discover that the character was originally a 1930's radio star. Boring.<br/><br/>After learning this, I wouldn't have given the film a second glance, but a popular online magazine that I frequent attended the Comic Convention a few years ago and featured the Black Beauty as well as an interview with Seth Rogan. It was through the in depth look at the vehicle and comprehensive interview that garnered my attention.<br/><br/>Some months later, the official trailer came out. The first twenty to thirty seconds of the trailer made the film seem insipid: some rich playboy gets control of the newspaper after his father passes away.<br/><br/>Again, BORING. But it was after these first seconds in the trailer that drew me into the film. There were hints of comedy, hints of action, an Asian kicking butt and a really wicked classic Chevy.<br/><br/>I haven't had time to peruse the internet over the film so any and all potential spoilers were intentionally avoided by me. Also, I put away my personal biases of Seth Rogen and went in to watch the film because it seemed interesting to me.<br/><br/>And I'm glad I did. The film was more than interesting. It was SPECTACULAR! Contrary to what some reviewers are saying, this film wasn't good because it was "bad", it was good because it was GOOD! <br/><br/>The humor was clean, the setups and payoffs were properly executed and there was so much going on in the film that it was difficult not to pay attention. I came into the film having no expectations at all and left the theater feeling that this was a throughly enjoyable, very FUN film.<br/><br/>Those who complain that this film doesn't do justice to the source material, the comics, the sixties television version, etc., etc., can go back an re-read and re-watch those versions that are clearly their favorite.<br/><br/>Appreciate the Green Hornet for what it is: a film with a bright and talented cast, some great set props and overall fun action/comedy superhero film. Excellent production values and excellent cast! It was refreshing to watch a film that didn't go down the dark route that almost all superhero films are going these days. 10/10. Because it's just THAT good. Can I give it a minus numer? Really really really truly awfully bad, dire... I sat through the entire movie hoping it would get better, the lead actor annoyed me immensely, irritating in the extreme, the story terrible, a criminal mastermind worried about his suit, a sidekick that kicks-ass and makes kick-ass cars and coffee and plays the piano - he should have been the star... and the script made the cringe, not even B movie standards, a budget $90m wasted, an obscene waste of money, easily going to be the worse movie of the year and it's on the 19th of January, give your cash to charity, give you money to the homeless but whatever you do, don't go and waste two hours of your life sitting through that garbage, I feel insulted, after 127hrs (budget $18m)and The Kings Speech (budget $15m) I thought Hollywood was starting to grow up but this ...yuckkk ...shudders... unbelievably awful. In a last-minute tweak, the production has also been meaninglessly 3-D-ified - never mind that there's nothing whatsoever 3-D-ish going on. Maybe those clumsy 3-D glasses are meant to let moviegoers mimic the superhero mask-wearing experience? It's best to let Rogen himself speak about this subject. From WorstPreviews.com: Seth Rogen, writer and co-star of the upcoming The Green Hornet, told Sci Fi Wire that the film will possess elements of both comedy and action. "To me, the two aren't mutually exclusive," said Rogen. "You can have a big action epic with a lot of funny parts." Green Hornet is a big-screen adaptation of the superhero franchise, which was adapted as a popular 1960s television series and was inspired by the original radio program created in the 1930s. Hornet follows the adventures of Britt Reid, a bored playboy who inherits his father's crusading newspaper, the Daily Sentinel. By night he is a masked hero, fighting crime with his sidekick, Kato, who has incredible martial-arts skills. Rogen, whose film projects to date have been primarily comedic in nature, said that the forthcoming update will evoke other action films that feature an undercurrent of humor. "I've seen the early 'Indiana Jones' movies in theaters, and they kill," Rogen said. "There's laughs throughout the whole thing, and it doesn't feel like a comedy per se. It just feels like something that's trying to solicit reactions from the audience, and we think of movies like 'True Lies' and stuff like that. That's more kind of what we're going for with this." Director Michel Gondry also has said this about the film's tone: "It's an action movie with some comedy in it. The action will be fast and furious and the comedy will come from the dynamic between Kato and Britt Reid." Reportedly, he stepped down to work on a superhero spoof comedy starring Jack Black. It's called "Live With Me" by the Rolling Stones.
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