From the writers of The Pineapple Express and Superbad comes this tongue in cheek family fun superhero adventure, The Green Hornet, the often forgotten superhero franchise that was brought to us in 1936, three years before Batman even existed.
The story goes that after his father passes away, playboy Reid (Seth Rogen) inherits the responsibility of running the family business – The newspaper empire that is the Daily Sentinel. Not something he’s ready for or wants but he has the help of Lenore (Cameron Diaz), his love interest, to help make sure the paper is running without hiccups. His ambition though is not to run a business but to fight crime and through the help of his father’s former assistant, Kato (Jay Chou), he gets to realise that dream as The Green Hornet.
The gags lie in the chemistry between Reid and Kato as Kato is a mechanical genius and a master of the martial arts while Reid is incompetent and needs constant saving. Despite being so overwhelmed by his partner’s skills, Reid’s ego tries to demote Kato from partner to sidekick which is not appreciated by the masked wonder. Chistophe Waltz makes a good job of playing the megalomaniac villain kingpin, Benjamin Chudnofsky, who will stop at nothing in order to make a profit.
With impressive action scenes and a mindless, humorous and easy to enjoy story, The Green Hornet is a superhero movie that you can lean back and laugh out loud with.
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