Todd’s Movie Blog

Seth Rogen seems to have actually completed The Green Hornet and put out a trailer for a January release.  I caught it on You Tube and it leaves me with mixed feelings. If the trailer is any indication the film has a very mixed tone.  Serious, a scene of Britt Reid being informed of his fathers death by gangsters.  Action, Kato kicking ass, literally, and the Black Beauty firing a massive amount of bullets at a gangster’s car.  Comedy, Reid gassing himself with his own gas gun and Kato blowing up a trafic camera after running a red light.  It all has the feeling being more of a buddy action comedy than a serious superhero movie.  I also have some concerns about Rogen’s performance.  Part of the key to the character is that he is passing himself off as a mobster muscling in on the the established criminals’ territory. The previous Green Hornets; Al Hodge on the radio, Alan Jones and Warren Hull in the serials and Van Williams on TV; were all able to project an aura of true menace when in the guise of the Hornet and dealing with the bad guys.  I get none of that from Rogen in the trailer.  Rotten Tomatos put it best during the Anticipatron, It’s like Iron Man if he had been a stoner.