Directed by:
Michel GondryCinematography:
John SchwartzmanComposer:
James Newton HowardCast:
Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz, David Harbour, Edward James Olmos, Edward Furlong, Jamie Harris, Chad L. Coleman (more)VOD (4)
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Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is a fun-loving slacker who spends his time partying and living off his wealthy father; James Reid (Tom Wilkinson). But when James is found dead Britt becomes the heir to his empire and all of a sudden his attitude to life changes. He fires all of his father's staff apart from the maid and his assistant Kato (Jay Chou). After getting drunk together and discussing how much they hated James, Britt and Kato go to visit his gravesite to vandalise the grave as payback. After doing this they see a couple being mugged and come to their rescue. After succeeding Britt now has a new desire in life and feels it's time to serve his purpose. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
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The Green Hornet is a brisk and bracing ride that strongly evoked the atmosphere of last year's Kick-Ass. It delivers a perfect action spectacle and a large number of fights and chases. Poor Kato, growing up in a poor neighborhood and having such a jerk for a boss (played brilliantly by Seth Rogen). Christoph Waltz is awesome after Inglorious Basterds and here he got me again, Mr. Chudnofsky vs. Mr. Bloodnofsky. In short, a film with a classy cast, music and effects that is more action packed than a driving school final test.
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The Green Hornet may not have the crazy grit and "comic-book" flair of Kick-Ass, but it has an excellent bad guy (on a par with Mark Strong in Kick-Ass in terms of quality), precise Snyder-esque visuals, and Seth Rogen, who wrote a perfectly funny script and does a great job playing the main character just as comically as well. Michel Gondry's handwriting isn't lost in what for him is such an uncharacteristic genre, so all in all this is a popcorn film on a solid level.
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Yup, the hillbilly rhetoric and horny teenager humor are more or less Rogen's trademark, which is certainly not a complaint by me. However, the script full of infantile humor is tamed by Gondry in the end. He put the perfect stamp of exaggeration on it and turned all that instantaneous crap into a perfect hit, which pleases especially during the action, when playfulness, original ideas, and wit are combined. No, this wasn't supposed to be the second Kick-Ass, but it definitely is the third Iron Man.
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Funny, quite solid action and an imaginative change of the superhero scheme. The heroes of The Green Hornet do not rely on the power of the mask and try to handle the symbolic power through a controlled newspaper - the result is extremely refreshing. Though transparent in places, The Green Hornet turns into a very exciting and epicurean spectacle thanks to a few twists and an inevitable sense of trouble behind an otherwise teenage ride. Add to that Gondry's poetic inserts, the excellent Waltz (the guy waltzes again!), a fresh heroic duo and a pleasant tribute to The Pink Panther, we soon have a candidate for this year's best blockbuster. Minuses: unnecessary 3D that looks like a children’s concertina book, and also that The Green Hornet does not have a completely balanced pace. That's why it loses half a star from me compared to last year’s Kick-ass.
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For me, a massively pleasant surprise. Green Hornet was a lot of fun, both with the straightforward jokes and with the way it mocks itself (when the villain puts on a red robe and a gas mask is just hilarious… though not everyone will share that opinion) and other films in the genre (the ending similar to the fateful conclusion of The Dark Night). Gondry made it incredibly brisk and playful, like the fooling around of boys unbound by ethics. And the reflection on how the media manipulates with public opinion is not as cheap as you would expect from a comic-book film. I watched it in 2D, I don’t think the 3D version could be any better.
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