The Green Hornet

I can sum this movie up in one word. "lol". Well, an acronym, but who cares? It was funny! It was full of action! I mean, a LOT of action. I was beginning to miss explosions. All the movies I've seen this month have been lacking you'll notice. This is also another superhero movie, which is my favorite genre. It was originally an old radio program and has been adapted to a couple movies back in the forties and and a television series in the sixties.

Story:
Britt Reid(Seth Rogen) is the son of James Reid, a man who owns a large, reputable newspaper named 'The Sentinel'. Growing up Britt's mother had died and he was having a hard time with his father's parenting and being to busy to be there for him. This was the cause of him growing up to be an out of control playboy.  One morning, on his way to see his father, he's watching the news and sees a report on the death of his father. He had been stung by a bee and had a lethal allergic reaction to it.

The next morning, he wakes up and finds his usual tasty morning cup of coffee, tastes like crap.  Outraged, he finds the maid and asks what is wrong. Frightened to death, she tells him he fired the whole staff who worked for his father.  So he rehires Kato(Jay Chou), the mechanic. The two become friends almost immediately. After a hanging out awhile, getting drunk, and finding they both hate Britt's father, they decide to do something crazy. Like decapitating the statue of his father that's overlooking his grave.

So in the middle of the night, while they're desecrating the grave of his father, Britt observes a couple getting ambushed by a group of thugs. Panicked and unsure of what to do, he does the most heroic, and what some could say stupid, things imaginable. He yells 'hey, leave them alone' to a large group of armed, mentally unstable thugs. Naturally, they chase after him. As Britt is running for his life, Kato sees him being chased down and runs to his rescue. Just before Brit get's his face filleted off, Kato pulls some moves that would rival Jackie Chan.

That night, when they're partying for their victories. They see they made it on the news. Not for saving the couple, but for stealing the head of his father's statues. They decided being the good guys felt really good, but they're seen as criminals. So they'll pose as criminals to get to the bad guys, and take them out. The Green Hornet was born.

Review:
Obviously this is a superhero movie, and in every superhero movie you have to see how they came to be.  It helps you understand the purpose of the hero even more. If you never heard of the Green Hornet before, it would be kinda backwards to hear of a superhero behaving badly with good intentions. So they build the story to clearly give an understanding why.


*Small Spoiler* What I thought was interesting, was the hero didn't get the girl. She even threatened to use a sexual harassment suit. If anyone is to say someone gets the girl, it's Kato. Even though it doesn't happen, the sidekick prevails more so.
*End Spoiler*    

I was really happy with this one. The characters felt real, the story was developed, the jokes were funny and not shown in every clip of the trailer. They also stayed true to the storyline, to my understanding. There was also nothing that makes it overbearing in regard to cursing, sex, violence, etc. Aside from final kills in the movie.

Cast:
This movie was co-written, co-produced and co-starred by Seth Rogen. Although he did none of these things by himself, I think he did an amazing job. After watching the older Green Hornet videos, he did take a more comedic approach and think it made the movie all the more better for this day and age.  Now I'll admit I've only seen three of his current movies, but to me it seems he puts a little bit of himself in every role he plays. He does so in this and I think it's great.
Jay Chou is a prodigy. The guy seeps talent from every pore. Since I can only review him about the movie, here's a link to imdb of how awesome he is. This guy knows how to fight. I like this guy more than Jackie Chan, Jet li, whatever. As for his ability to act, it didn't bother me at all. So he's good. haha.
Cameron Diaz had a supporting role. Wasn't really in the movie a lot. Before I never really liked her, but this gave her some cool points for me.


I thought it was a great movie. Anyone can enjoy it. Kids might be okay, dependent on yourself.  Personally, if I had any, I wouldn't take them.