
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".... (Full plot summary below)
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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".
Leave your thoughts about The Green Hornet.
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesThe Green Hornet may well be Michel Gondry's most elaborate meta-joke on escapist infantilism. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertThe movie these guys have come up with is fresh, funny and a bewildering surprise. |
| MovieJuice!Mark Ramsey3D, 4D. You can throw double-D's at The Green Hornet, and you'll still end up with C-minus. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerSuch a feeble excuse for an action comedy that it's already taken pride of place in my upcoming worst-movies-of-2011 list. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoThe Green Hornet is crass, unimaginative, unexciting, and not very funny. I was hoping it would at least be mindless fun but it ends up just being mindless. |
| FromTheBalconyBill ClarkWhile the package as a whole never truly strikes a consistent tone, the boundless energy, surprisingly irreverent dialogue, and creative action sequences carry the day. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe film's only unqualified success is the end title sequence-because it's genuinely stylish, because it looks like it was shot in genuine 3-D and, most of all, because it's the end. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordJay Chou is actually quite appealing as Kato, both a buddy and rival to the Hornet, especially once Britt hires Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz) as his Sentinel secretary, a move that brings out the sexist in Rogen and the sexiness in Chou. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallBilled as an action comedy, The Green Hornet isn't funny, and the action is often too frenetic to make any impression. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerAside from a brief split-screen sequence and a few deft special-effects, there's almost no sizzle to this goofy take on superheroics. |