Todd's Thoughts On THE GREEN HORNET
The Michel Gondry directed, Seth Rogen starring feature film version of The Green Hornet hit screens tomorrow and is the subject of my weekly review at Showcase today. You can head over there to check out the full review but here's the basic recap:
While definitely flawed in some areas it's not at all the train wreck a lot of people feared it would be. Far from it, it's actually quite entertaining. It's by far the least Gondry film of the Gondry catalog but there are still enough quirks to keep it interesting, Jay Chou is a lot of fun as Kato and I was very pleasantly surprised by Christoph Waltz's talent for understated neurotic comedy.
The two big flaws are the 3D post-conversion - the film was very clearly not shot with 3D in mind and a few sequences hurt - and Seth Rogen. Those worried Rogen was wrong for the part are correct as he clearly doesn't understand the difference between playboy and fratboy but he's not quite as wrong as the early trailers made him appear to be.
On the whole it's a fun bit of popcorn cinema.
While definitely flawed in some areas it's not at all the train wreck a lot of people feared it would be. Far from it, it's actually quite entertaining. It's by far the least Gondry film of the Gondry catalog but there are still enough quirks to keep it interesting, Jay Chou is a lot of fun as Kato and I was very pleasantly surprised by Christoph Waltz's talent for understated neurotic comedy.
The two big flaws are the 3D post-conversion - the film was very clearly not shot with 3D in mind and a few sequences hurt - and Seth Rogen. Those worried Rogen was wrong for the part are correct as he clearly doesn't understand the difference between playboy and fratboy but he's not quite as wrong as the early trailers made him appear to be.
On the whole it's a fun bit of popcorn cinema.
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