Comments on: Review: ‘Green Hornet’ Lacks Sting, Anything Else Even Remotely Interesting

By: bonzob

bonzob — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Gondry is not a one-hit wonder. Science of Sleep and Dave Chappelle\’s Block Party are both great.

Even Be Kind Rewind is pretty good.

By: Gabe Toro

Gabe Toro — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Oh, pish posh, there is plenty of superhero subversion. The mid-life crisis supervillain that everyone laughs at? The superhero resume? The sidekick macking on the lead female? The father figure being a kind of dick? I mean, that if anything was the amusing stuff I came away with.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Be Kind Rewind is HIGH art compared to this, seriously.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

I\’m just happy to know that I\’ve not been alone in my assessment of everything Michel Gondry has done since \”Eternal Sunshine\”. I wasn\’t able to finish \”Be Kind Rewind\” or \”The Science of Sleep.\”

By: shackett

shackett — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Whatever is happening, I\’m sure there\’s a Michael Keaton biography that Rogen is reading as we speak to help him get through this move.

By: Kimber

Kimber — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Solid review, Drew. I had a better time than you did, but mostly because I giggled my through its ridiculousness.

And I have an embarrassing soft spot for Rogen. I could not handle him as an actual person, but he cracks me up when I only have to spend two hours with him twice a year.

By: N Hyman

N Hyman — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Is it as bad as the colossally boring and inept Be Kind Rewind?

By: BradZuhl

BradZuhl — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Uh, did anyone expect anything more than another giant studio turd shoved down our throats? Wake up Hollywood, just because it\’s based on a comic/superhero property doesn\’t mean people will line up like lemmings to see it!

By: [A]

[A] — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:19 +0000

Ouch.

By: Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:18 +0000

Alex, I didn\’t write the above review, Drew did. But I think most of us, if not all, liked Pineapple Express. If the humor and ideas were done as well as they were in that film we\’d be game, but it doesn\’t work in this. They don\’t go far enough with certain things and it feels choppy and/or lazy.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:18 +0000

I enjoyed this a lot, but I also didn\’t expect anything more intelligent than MacGruber with costumed vigilantes and thankfully didn\’t see it in 3D. I also had a lingering fear it was going to be awful, so I was pretty pleasantly surprised.

Judging from the review, the fundamental problem Chris seems to have here is that Seth Rogen made a Seth Rogen superhero film — i.e. The Pineapple Express with people dressing up in costumes in the place of pot — and he was expecting something else that sounds taxing, intellectual, and profound, which Rogen doesn\’t really have a track record of.

(Some spoilers.)

The arc of Diaz\’s paper-thin character was supposed to be a subversion, as she doesn\’t end up with Rogen at the end of the film, so the accusation of misogyny comes off as a little strange — it reads like there is some discontent that she doesn\’t follow a more standard arc. And Rogen\’s character isn\’t supposed to be someone you want to root for — he starts as a man-child and ends as an irresponsible psychopath who has killed dozens, if not hundreds, of people and caused an absurd amount of property damage; the film is unequivocal about Britt\’s amorality. (I assume some of that hyperviolence was removed for the PG-13 rating, but I can\’t imagine that the lack of blood would bring any innocuousness to the killing. Also, I\’d be genuinely surprised if there\’s not an unrated DVD/Blu-Ray release.)

And if you are really going to zing the film, why not point out the jokes that Rogen/Goldberg lifted directly from The Simpsons?

By: Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:19:18 +0000

I really like \”Be Kind Rewind,\” it oozes with love for cinema. It\’s very sentimental and sometimes messy but it has a huge heart.

I like the things that Gabe mentioned and it does have some more really goofy, off-beat things, but it doesn\’t seem to know how to use them in a decent way. They usually just go to waste. I look back fondly on those ideas and think that they were a good starting point, but where they ended up was so lazy.