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The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet

2011
Comedy, Suspense/Thriller
1h 59m
Seth Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg (Superbad) apply their trademark humor to the superhero genre in this big-screen action-adventure about a newspaper-publishing playboy (Rogen) who dons a disguise to fight crime after hours. As the Green Hornet, Britt Reid's power is no longer limited to the printed page -- and thanks to a nimble martial-arts expert (Jay Chou), he has the skills to expose the city's roughest criminals.
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The Green Hornet

2011
Comedy, Suspense/Thriller
1h 59m
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Rated 13 Jan 2011
60
50th
A surprisingly enjoyable trainwreck with eclectic directing from the French hipster guru himself and irritating shouting from the once-chubby Rogen.
Rated 20 Jan 2011
30
15th
Seth Rogen is misplaced, the movie isnt funny and the chemistry between the characters is awfull. One of the worst "superhero" movies I have ever seen... With most of the great heroes already adapted it seems like Hollywood wants to squeeze the last drop out of the whole genrewave that has been dominating the blockbusters for the last ten years. Come on! They even try to convince us that the title is cool in one scene, but it isnt! Superman, Iron Man and The Green Hornet! Find the odd one out!
Rated 31 Jan 2011
13
6th
Probably the worst (ok, second worst; I saw "Catwoman") superhero adaptation ever. Seth Rogen is...well in it. Jay Chou is so bad he is actually outshined by Cameron Diaz, and I've seen houseplants that have out-acted her. If you're in the mood for a slow, unfunny, nonsensical trainwreck, it might be fun.
Rated 16 Jan 2011
62
48th
Despite Jay Chou's stylish Kato, this is a whole lot of bong-passing, frat party tomfoolery trying trendily to pass itself off as a superhero flick. Not much heroism to be seen, though. Just plenty of self-satisfied chuckling, shouting, and tiresome pratfalling.
Rated 20 May 2011
29
14th
Boring, insultingly simple, painfully unfunny and even slightly racist. Rogen's character is even more unlikable than me and there's no reason to care about anything happening to anyone. Only cool moment was a 'bad guys prepping the troops' montage.
Rated 27 Mar 2011
65
39th
Having expected true horror I was actually pleasantly surprised. Yes, it is not a masterpiece, but it can stand proudly next to movies like Iron Man and Spiderman, okay maybe not next to them, but then on the shelve just below them. The movie doesn't take itself to serious and that makes it a nice break from reality.
Rated 18 Jan 2011
70
38th
Seth Rogen believes the louder he yells and talks the better of an actor he is. This movie had potentiel to be a dark edgy film like the Dark Night series given the Green Hornet's original material or even go campy. Instead it went frat boy. It turned into the Pineapple Express without the originallity or comedy. The Green Hornet character felt like a Cheap Tony Stark knock off. It was a fun movie that had it's moments, but giving the potential that it had, it just really left me disappointed
Rated 09 Jan 2011
70
57th
Forget that it's directed by Michel Gondry. He's merely a hired gun in this wellwritten Seth Rogen-show off piece that plays better as a bromance comedy than as a superhero movie. Christoph Waltz' tongue-in-cheek turn as the villain is funny as hell and the 3D is decent.
Rated 05 Mar 2011
30
6th
i had above average expectations for this one. i mostly like seth rogen's humor and there's been enough superhero-movies around to expect people to know WHAT to do, and WHAT NOT to. sadly, they didn't get the memo. it's just plain dull. there's lots of action, yet it's incredibly uninspired and there's zero character relation. the slo-mo and split-screen cinematography is clichéd and lame, the whole act is incredibly standardised and boring. apart from some fun dialog it just pissed me off.
Rated 23 Jan 2014
37
7th
The movie made me feel so indifferent I almost thought it was trying to tell me about it's trip to Venice eighteen years ago before the kids had left the house and the neighbor's had to break in to turn off a running faucet.
Rated 30 Jan 2011
55
18th
This could have been an ok film but for the constant jackassery and never ending noise coming from Seth Rogan's pie-hole.
Rated 07 Feb 2011
30
11th
Incredibly bland, lazy effort that you can tell has been through far too many hands before production. Rogan does his career no favours with a terrible job at both writing and acting, while Gondry offers little special in way of direction (apparently the release was delayed by months in order to convert the 3D version - you barely notice). Once again Waltz steals the show, even if he can't save the movie: a real train wreck, although (worryingly) there are many worse films out there.
Rated 13 Jan 2011
5
30th
Hollywood, please stop giving Seth Rogen starring roles. Thank you.
Rated 25 Feb 2011
60
54th
If you can digest this without a stick of pretentiousness up your ass(blocking your insides), you're in for a treat. Great cast - the first real scene (Franco, Waltz) sets the tone for the whole film. Better than Kick-Ass..
Rated 07 May 2011
50
34th
Incomprehensible Chinese Lad and Skinny Fat Guy battle Cheesy Nazi Dude with assistance from I Was Beautiful at 21 in The Mask And Hit the Wall Shortly Afterward Lady. Things happened, I watched them.
Rated 19 Jan 2011
50
4th
Soon 2b playing ubiquitously on free cable like TBS b/c it'll be extremely cheap despite its big stars & no mainstream network will have it. Somehow the Superbad writing team got dumber w/ age. The already uninvolving drama & mostly generic action is constantly cut off at the knees by humor only noxious adolescents enjoy. Most egregious is the staggering level of talent pissed away, w/ Waltz most glaringly beating Halle Berry's record time-setting fall from Oscar-winner 2 Catwoman-level dreck.
Rated 19 Apr 2012
50
26th
This is an OK "What if the Green Hornet was a goofy slacker?" kinda flick, but all I could think about was how much better it would've been if Stephen Chow had directed/played Kato instead of walking away from the project in 2010. For a movie that languished in development hell for almost 20 years, it's pretty embarrassing that this is the best they could come up with. Also, how is Edward Furlong still getting work?
Rated 03 Jun 2011
47
12th
Besides Kato, Waltz, and the final action sequence that was so over the top it was hilarious, this is utter garbage. It was crazy how many scenes seemed to have zero direction. I didn't see any Gondry in this and Rogan's wise cracks got old in the first 10 minutes. Seriously, who thought that Seth Rogan would make a good superhero?
Rated 11 Jun 2011
74
41st
I feel like the only person in the world who thought this was pretty good.
Rated 12 Feb 2012
79
30th
This crude PG-13'er is funny in the writing and the characters. Waltz is obviously ht best part but The Green Hornet is highly entertaining and it's really not that bad.
Rated 26 Feb 2011
3
28th
Pretty bad. Might've been better if you could understand more than 50% of what Jay Chou says but I needed some subtitles for him and he was obviously just in the movie to make money via Chinese. Seth Rogen provides a few solid laughs but the movie feels like it takes forever to end and I really don't think he is good enough to be the lead in a movie.
Rated 04 Apr 2011
39
23rd
Extremely lazy superhore bromance with no likeable characters or good story. I expected so much more from Gondry, his trademark quirk, for one, but it seems he forgot to bring it to Holywood. Rogen's character is a douche who like many superheroes suffer from daddy complex. Character of Kato is as likeable as Jay Chou is, and I hated him right after his role in Initial D.
Rated 24 Jul 2011
72
62nd
Call me crazy but I enjoyed the hell out of this. The script smartly subverts the conventions of the superhero genre with an entitled asshole protagonist who wracks up far more property damage & murders than good deeds. Gondry brings a nice style to the proceedings with some visually creative gadgets & inventive editing. A split-screen sequence in the the final act is particularly memorable. I found it to be quite funny, but then again, I like Seth Rogen. As usual, the best 3D is in the credits.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
35
19th
Foregrounding the sexual undertones (which makes them overtones, I guess) may have been a fair approach to jazzing up the genre, but the humour is too weak, the characters are too thin, and there is too little else going on, with the consequence that the jaunty ride of the playboy heir is uninvolving and ultimately becomes tiresome.
Rated 18 Apr 2014
28
8th
Lots of action, great characters, loved the script, the one liners, the plot: Everything. But enough about "The Avengers". I hated this one. Period.
Rated 20 Mar 2011
71
33rd
I would have rather loved to watch Seth Rogen in another of Apatow produced film like Superbad than in a Superhero movie which tries to be deliberately funny. Seth Rogen should stick on to his comedy like Pineapple Express and trying to be a superhero. (Not if he lost another 100 pounds!)
Rated 17 Sep 2011
40
4th
It took 7 different sittings at 20-30 minute intervals over 3 months to complete this tedious "action-comedy." Seth Rogan's hyper man-child schtick gets old fast. Showcasing this as a comedy was a mistake. The original green hornet show was lame too and memorable due to Bruce Lee. Chou is a pop star and doesn't have the screen presence and martial arts pedigree of Lee. The action scenes are unimaginative and poorly paced. The hero/sidekick rivalry side story was racially condescending and dumb.
Rated 15 Jan 2011
15
21st
"For a film with so many potentially hallucinatory avenues, imagination seems to be a worthless currency." - Glenn Heath Jr.
Rated 19 Jan 2011
40
14th
I'm usually capable of turning off my brain and enjoying movies like this, but this one really rubbed me the wrong way. I mostly blame the script. If you are going to try to reimagine an original story, you have to at least make it as good as the original. Instead it's a Britt Reid that is completely unlikeable throughout the whole movie, bad dialogue, lame jokes, and an unsatisfying villain. Jay Chou's success as Kato and is the only reason this is watchable at all.
Rated 10 Apr 2011
40
13th
Fails on the same terms as Hulk and Spider-Man 3 by being too confused about what it wants to be. Perhaps its greatest problem however is that it is a comedy with unfunny characters (okay Waltz does a good job at times).
Rated 17 Jan 2011
85
75th
Probably the best shitty movie of the year?
Rated 10 Jun 2012
40
19th
Not funny. Not cool. Not really worthwhile. But not very terrible, either.
Rated 10 Apr 2011
56
27th
More stupid and less funny than I expected. Lots of wasted potential here.
Rated 21 Jan 2011
73
53rd
Redemption's name is Chinese rap
Rated 15 Jan 2011
5
38th
Gondry --> missing. Rogen --> no. more. lead. roles. please! This china-guy --> stole the show. James Newton Howard --> wtf? Action --> average. 3D --> completely unnecessary, once again. However, there is something fresh in a movie about a masked asshole totally outshined by his sidekick.
Rated 16 Jan 2011
61
28th
First off, Seth Rogen is not lead actor material; so in that sense the movie starts at the wrong foot. It shows glimpses of hope and has the opportunity to blend Gondry's quirkiness, but for some reason or other it does not go in that direction and only becomes a clumsy derivative superhero origin story gag. Better than "My super ex-girlfriend" but worse than a hell of a lot of movies.
Rated 21 Mar 2011
55
41st
The movie is bad, but seems not to have been made to take it seriously, so sometimes it's funny, though not enough.
Rated 19 Sep 2011
15
5th
#11#, popcorn, hype, story, (dir Gondry), Cameron D, (casting)
Rated 10 Nov 2011
45
11th
I've decided that I really don't like Seth Rogan, and never did. Why the hell did Michel Gondry take this job? He did what he could, I guess... The directorial touches and Christoph Waltz's weird gangster were the only reasons to see the movie.
Rated 02 Nov 2013
32
15th
Could've done with some structure + a plot. Sporadically funnyesque. original score 40 but 3 years later I'm pretty sure it sucks.
Rated 28 Feb 2012
59
26th
Lots of things in this movie didn't work, which sucks, as the parts that did would have been rated much higher. Should have dropped the shitty love triangle, the awkward dialogue, and stuck to the cool action sequences and humor. It's still a fun film, but you've got to take the good with the bad.
Rated 01 Mar 2011
72
32nd
Decent ridiculous fun where the set pieces make up for the flaws in the material.
Rated 16 Jun 2011
80
74th
i was thinking rogen was going to stink this up like a fart in an elevator, but he actually carried it out quite well. the only detractors is the (thank god, not seriously developed) love interest, and the conflict between rogen and chou. both of which would have been better off replaced with more action.
Rated 07 May 2016
50
4th
The Green Hornet would have been generic and mediocre if not for Rogen. Writing and staring in this vacuum of originality, Rogen has created a comedy film devoid of humour; an action film devoid of thrill; and a superhero film devoid of a hero. Waltz cannot salavage the banal tedium that is this film. They even dragged Olmos into it.
Rated 29 Jan 2011
64
25th
Not too sophisticated, but it really wasn't meant to be. It was entertaining with enough action and comedy, although it could have been a bit funnier.
Rated 21 Sep 2011
77
82nd
Way funnier than kick-ass!
Rated 30 Oct 2011
35
1st
Dreadful. One of the worst of the year.
Rated 13 May 2013
4
2nd
Such a waste of money. Canada should be ashamed of Seth Rogen.
Rated 03 May 2011
42
24th
eng; [The Green Hornet]; nach dem tod seines vaters entdeckt britt die fähigkeiten seines mitarbeiters und geht mit ihm auf verbrecherjagd.; (auch die schauspieler schaffen es nicht komik oder coolness in den film zu bringen.);
Rated 29 Jan 2011
78
48th
Man-Child Seth Rogen yet again plays the petulant dumb-ass to the hilt for no laughs. Not a very memorable movie but entertaining just the same.
Rated 12 May 2011
58
23rd
Should have leaned more on comedy and avoided the summer blockbuster action sequences. They tended to slow it down.
Rated 18 Jul 2013
2
0th
Pure comedy the whole way through. This movie has some of the funniest dialogue of any movie I've ever seen, and it surprisingly has some great acting in it, aside from that dinosaur hiding under the skin of a human, Cameron Diaz. The Green Hornet is some of Dirty Randy's best work, and it's definitely something I look forward to watching again.
Rated 17 Nov 2013
65
21st
Fun action flick but there's not a whole lot to it. Rogen and Chou are good together, Christoph Waltz is great as usual and everything is crazy over the top (double gun!!). Lots of style over substance but if that's what you're looking for you could do a lot worse.
Rated 18 Jan 2011
70
42nd
PSI was just about dead-on here, I thought it was funny enough and action-y enough to keep me interested. It works very well as a comic book movie, it introduces the primary characters enough to not feel rushed or undercooked. Always love to see Seth Rogan, and unlike a couple of other reviews on here, Seth Rogan is extremely deserving of leading roles, and they put a solid cast around him. Jay Chou's Kato character is probably the highlight of the flick, and it's another great show from Waltz.
Rated 09 Feb 2011
75
40th
Very fun and entertaining. Never to serious, exactly what i thought i was getting myself into.
Rated 14 Aug 2011
35
23rd
not really a great movie, music sucked, action sucked, story sucked, ...
Rated 13 Dec 2011
79
59th
I read an interview with Seth Rogen where he stated that he was trying to push the limit as to how unlikeable a hero can be before being redeemed. They never quite found the redeeming aspect. The film has a few entertaining moments, but Rogen's character was far too stupid & selfish, Christoph Waltz's villain was hardly threatening, & the action beats were few and underwhelming. Overall, this film was disappointing.
Rated 02 Apr 2011
4
13th
A crappy, half-assed film that gets worse as it goes along.
Rated 02 Apr 2011
35
0th
Very sloppy superhero action flick. Bad acting, no surprises anywhere. Not funny in any way. The cgi is good but not worth the rest.
Rated 15 Aug 2011
5
3rd
Seth Rogen truly is the Kryptonite to a good time. There are not many people who could turn this simple but effective mix of gadgets, martial arts and explosives into two hours of my life I will never get back.
Rated 04 Apr 2012
82
70th
I enjoyed it - sorry popular opinion....
Rated 31 Jan 2011
80
47th
GOOD: Kato is likable, ; - BAD: Seth Rogen's character is very unlikable, wasn't rooting for him, Kato is too ultra powerful (fake), villain from Inglorious Bastards is wasted (could've been so much better), only about 1% is actually real 3D, didn't explain Kato's extraordinary super powers
Rated 14 Jun 2016
78
17th
Good fun movie with some humor, nothing special but does the job for a night in or just to pass the time.
Rated 05 Aug 2017
61
47th
A boring villain hurts an otherwise funny enough superhero adventure.
Rated 03 May 2011
40
20th
Christophe Waltz is great and there are plenty of funny moments. But it is still just not ... very good.
Rated 17 Jun 2011
60
52nd
I quite enjoyed this. Gondry's visual style is entertaining & slick, & Rogan & Chou have a good chemistry. What I really enjoyed about this movie was is completely casual ethos. It has a feel about it as if Gondry & Rogan simply went ahead & did whatever the hell they wanted; & they sort of get away with it! Sadly there is a lot of wasted potential here in terms of the story & characters, & with this film probably not successful enough to warrant a sequel, that potential will remain wasted.
Rated 07 Jul 2012
65
31st
A nice little action/comedy.
Rated 01 Feb 2011
80
53rd
Funny enough and Kato (Jay Chou) is awesome. I think this would have been better had they dropped Cameron Diaz - or at least given her more of a believable backstory. If there is a sequel I hope they work on the story a tad more than they focused on the car (which is also pretty cool).
Rated 12 Jul 2011
15
10th
The trailer for this movie was basically false advertising, as the best action sequences & moves from the trailer weren't even in the movie. Anyway, the two leads have hardly any chemistry, the story doesn't really make sense, and the character motivations are baffling. There are about 180 seconds of cool action in this, and the rest is just a waste of time. There is no reason for a film like this to be 2 hours long.
Rated 27 Jun 2011
50
43rd
Must be because I am incredibly hung over, because the film isn't really funny, the script is nothing to write about and the chemistry in the bromance isn't exactly tantalizing. Yet it seems to have an air of easy charm about it, as 'The Green Hornet' seems to accomplish nothing really, and Britt Reid remains a douchebag throughout. That and, you know, explosions and slo-mo fight sequences. I also attribute it to being hung over, that I never spotted Edward Furlong.
Rated 23 Nov 2013
85
33rd
The movie could have been better.
Rated 31 May 2011
15
7th
"Spews obnoxious gas and obnoxious patter"
Rated 12 Jul 2015
15
1st
Such bad, bad dialogue.
Rated 24 Mar 2011
57
25th
annoying, but i liked the costumes.
Rated 17 May 2011
42
11th
Boring and unfunny
Rated 06 May 2011
41
12th
'The Green Hornet' had the chance to be a comedy smash-actioner, and there are hints of what could have been sprinkled all over this tonally confused, choppy action film. So much of what doesn't work can be attributed to the troubled production, the lack of chemistry between Chou and Rogen, the mere fact that the story of a millionaire schlub suddenly becoming a vigilante makes zip sense, and poor character development.
Rated 21 Dec 2012
14
2nd
There wasn't a single thing about this movie that was enjoyable.
Rated 18 Jan 2011
60
23rd
Thought it was quite funny at the beginning but as the movie went on it drifted away from comedy and more into an action movie. That's kind of normal these days for this genre, but it entertained both as a comedy and an action. Not a movie you gush over or anything, but a fun romp, and well worth your time.
Rated 12 Mar 2011
10
1st
1- absolute torture, terrible
Rated 29 Apr 2011
50
12th
Bad.. Acting was bad, script was too much, it flew way too fast but it as also way too long. Now idea why Gondry got attached to this one. For me, one more reason not to like Rogen.. Let down in all possible meanings of the word.
Rated 20 May 2011
41
11th
... ähnlich stumpfsinniger Schwachsinn wie typische Jacky-Chan-Klamauk-Filmchen, aber leider nicht lustig.
Rated 31 Jul 2011
60
50th
I enjoyed seeing Edward Furlong again. The bullet time is awesome. Only a few of the jokes are funny.
Rated 18 Jan 2011
70
15th
Michel Gondry directed this? And Seth Rogan plays the lead? Damn...
Rated 08 Sep 2011
60
18th
It's over the top. But not in a good way.
Rated 05 Nov 2011
70
37th
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. This was a great role for Seth Rogen, who I normally can't stand, and the story was pretty entertaining.
Rated 08 Feb 2012
55
28th
It's just plain silly and, most of the time, fun.
Rated 30 Jul 2012
92
90th
I had so much fun watching this movie! I remember watching the Green Hornet on tv when I was little. I was afraid all the nostalgia I had from the old show was going to hurt my enjoyment of this movie, but it didn't. I just loved it! The only thing was I didn't love Cameron Diaz but her part was pretty small so it's forgivable. Jay Chou as Kato stole the show. I loved how awesome he was. Also Seth Rogan played his usual part but did it at its best. Not Oscar winning but a lot of fun nonetheless
Rated 17 Feb 2011
30
5th
The 3D is shy, the action scenes seem taken from The One, and, speaking of Jet Li, there is this incredibly poor Jay Chou, who is even worse than Li -- ok, I overreacted, Li is fine. Seth Rogen, shouting out loud at everyone, is also irritating. And then we get to Gondry: he emulates some good humor from Be Kind Rewind, but got himself involved in a huge embarrassment.
Rated 02 Mar 2011
35
2nd
Waltz's double barreled desert eagle was pretty badass. After that, everything goes downhill. I couldn't find a reason to care about the bumbling arrogant moron, and his helpful and athletic Asian friend.
Rated 14 Dec 2011
77
63rd
This is a funny movie with an interesting superhero duo. Jay Chou is excellent as Kato. Seth Rogen and Chou make a good comedy team together. If you are looking for a fun superhero flick check this one out.
Rated 27 Mar 2012
10
2nd
This is not a good film. It had one good scene within it, and that good scene actually made me think that The Green Hornet had some potential. Maybe it did, but it squandered it early. The characters are underdeveloped, the plot is mundane, all of the scenes have been done better elsewhere, and few points of the film actually get a proper arc with a conclusion and some movement. And it takes 108 minutes for this mess to play out! I won't ever recommend this film.
Rated 19 Jan 2011
65
20th
Gondry's the reason I have a redundant collection of Bjork DVDs; I love him. But Eternal Sunshine was his manifesto, from here it's either the same or a challenge. Danny Boyle challenged himself well by doing a 2 hour movie about being stuck under a rock. This challenge: doing a mainstream superhero flick for Gondry? Nahhhh. His style is neutered, the comedy wobbles between great and alarmingly obnoxious, and it features the worst handled homoerotic duo "undertones". Worse than Batman and Robin.
Rated 23 Nov 2014
1
20th
Aimed for banter-filled buddy-com; got a boring bromance -with a very small b. The hollow villain is where this really fails though. Wikipedia tells me Nic Cage turned this down, let's just think about that.
Rated 23 Jan 2011
80
73rd
It's a genre traditionally based on adolescent boys' power fantasies, and The Green Hornet gleefully portrays its superheroes as (basically) adolescent boys enjoying a power fantasy. And it works - it's funny, well enough acted (particularly Waltz's bemused psychopath), visually inventive and casually violent in a way that reminds me of the action movies of the 80s.
Rated 02 Feb 2011
75
66th
Seth Rogen is probably the most unlikely superhero of all times, but that is only part of what makes this movie surprisingly entertaining. I like that it doesn't fall into the cliché patterns of other Hollywood movies, with the love story and all.
Rated 02 Jun 2011
49
35th
Seth Rogen is a awful superhero.
Rated 03 Jun 2013
60
47th
Not horrible, just not great either. I wish it was a bit better by the end.
Rated 18 May 2011
80
46th
I don't like this kind of humor.
Rated 04 Dec 2017
70
45th
Top badass moment? It's the car of course, even though it's named after a horse; and a bank's logo. I seriously doubt its MPG figures are going to cheer up Friends of the Earth either. But it looks cool, plus it's got guns and flame throwers and stuff. And what motorist hasn't wanted to totally destroy a speed camera with a missile at least once in their life? I know I have. It's just a shame that Britt Reid is such a thoroughly unlikable person. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 12 Jun 2011
62
50th
i liked it better than most people but it does lose its own heart half way through the film and started to pander to the general audience instead of trying to be original.

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