The Green Hornet Review... Don't miss it.

Critic's Rating: 3.5/5

Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz
Direction: Michel Gondry
Genre: Adventure
Duration: 2 hours


Story: The Green Hornet is a fictional super hero who made his debut in American pulp fiction through a radio series during the 1930s. Playboy Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) inherits his father's media empire and chooses to re-vamp hisnewspaper, The Daily Sentinel, by creating the headlines himself. He dons the vigilante's role and plays a crusader by night with his driver and coffee-maker, Kato (Jay Chou) who happens to be a martial arts experts and a wizard with gadgets.

But, being somewhat of a dimwit, Britt needs his smart assistant (Cameron Diaz) to lay down the plan of action for the super hero act. Will the Green Hornet and his side-kick save the city from crime lord Chudnofsky (Christopher Waltz)?

Movie Review: The Green Hornet isn't any ordinary super hero story. This one is a complete revision of the vigilante's tale of valour. And the fact that it does it with comedy and flair makes it such a fun watch.
                                              
When a bored Britt chooses to spice up his life by playing a super hero at night, he asks his coffee-maker cum driver, Kato to point out what's common between all super heroes. The cape, the tights, proffers Kato. Nah! The fact that they are all the good guys, says Britt. Hence the new plan: We will pose as villains and act like heroes, he exults and sets out to create mayhem in a city that is in the stranglehold of another joker: the boring bad guy with the hard-to-pronouce name, Chudnofsky.

The film is a roller-coaster ride from the opening shot itself. Seth Rogen's bumbling super hero act is a complete laugh riot. I'm the guy who gets to shoot fart guns, while others have gun-guns, he laments when his assistant gives him his new weapon of destruction, a gas gun. Jay Chou's Kato is enigmatic and endearing, specially when he doggedly refuses to be labelled as the sidekick and is not ready to be the `Doo' to Rogen's `Scooby' act. And Cameron Diaz is the sassy assistant who unknowingly scripts the super hero mayhem that explodes in Los Angeles.

Witty dialogues, bumbling heroes, zany bad guys, high-voltage action, The Green Hornet is a fun make-over of the super hero movie. Don't miss it.