The Green Hornet (2011)

The first big film of the 2011 year (no, Season of the Witch doesn’t count), written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Superbad) has a lot resting on its shoulders. The story of The Green Hornet began with a radio serial (1938-1952) that aired over three different decades in a Family Guy-ish cancellation schedule. The franchise later became a comic book (1940-present) and then a television series (1966-1977; which gave Bruce Lee his breakout role as Kato) and film serial and has become one of the oldest and most looked-over superheroes in a long time. The Green Hornet (2011 film) stars the creative force behind the film, Seth Rogen as Britt Reid, a slacker who inherits a newspaper company when his dad dies. He then teams up with Kato (Jay Chou, who does an amazing job) to take out bad guys using a very unique approach-pretend to be bad guys, but to actually be good guys. The end result has a lot of violence and fun. The film drew parallels to me with The A-Team, a film that was released in 2010 that was just a lot of pointless explosions and nervous humor. Well, I loved The A-Team, and I loved this film. Now, the 3-D is post-conversion, so I didn’t even bother. So just grab some popcorn, relax, turn your brain off, and enjoy The Green Hornet.
8/10