Teasing fun from a super hero movie will be trickier compared to dealing with a bad guy sporting the crazy outfit, unique powers as well as sociopathic tendencies. For The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen and director Michel Gondry drive hard regarding yuks in between the flashy 3-D visuals and standard-issue origins story.
In The Green Hornet, which opens Friday, writer-producer-star Seth Rogen and director Michel Gondry push hard for yuks, leaning heavily on coarse slapstick, self-conscious pop culture references and bromance shtick in between the flashy 3-D visuals and standard-issue origins story.
This storyline, which usually updates the story in the Green Hornet character created for a 1930s radio serial, revolves around the actual relationship between Rogen’s spoiled-schlub-turned-vigilante Britt Reid and their crafty chauffeur, Kato (played by Taiwanese martial arts whiz Jay Chou). The buddy-flick dynamic mostly consigns Cameron Diaz to third-wheel status.
Within the movie’s guy-centric world, Reid, vain heir with a family newspaper fortune who’s hung on the way he’s been treated by his media maven father (Tom Wilkinson), generates some solid laughs grounded in Rogen’s hapless superhero routine and the clearly superior talents of his sidekick.
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