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"Feels like a movie that belongs in June or July, with all the other comic book fare. But I'll gladly take it now, no matter what the calendar says."
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"Kato's often the best part of the movie. Britt calls him a "human Swiss army knife," and he's right; Kato is not a sidekick, but a fully formed hero who's full of surprises. "
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"A big, boisterous action-comedy - a funny, exciting and intentionally goofy summer movie that just happens to arrive in the middle of January."
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"The mix is not nearly classic but is congenial enough to warm up a January weekend and perhaps to stoke a sequel. Call it "The Green Hornet Strikes Again?" No: "Kato II!" "
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"Turns out, Michel Gondry has crafted an irreverently funny, ultramodern take on the 1930s radio serial. "
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"Has enough kicks and verve to keep the winter blues at bay, at least for a little while."
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"The Green Hornet doesn't suck. But don't expect it to hang together either, what with the clashing tones and melting logic."
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"Entirely watchable and often pretty fun, in a mishmashed, patchy kind of way."
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"Rogen isn't the obvious choice for a comic book icon but he forces his personality onto this material with an ingratiating ease."
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"The Green Hornet, which strives to be a different take on the superhero genre, is an interesting film - until it devolves into abject stupidity."
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"It's a strange, shapeless, rarely satisfying, but generally amiable movie in which everyone appears to be faking it as they go along, and almost-almost-getting away with it."
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"At least The Green Hornet is likable, and a refreshing change from the heavy, angst-ridden superhero pictures so beloved by obnoxious fanboys."
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"Some of the car gadgetry, Kato's specialty, looks cool...The Green Hornet is otherwise colorless, numbing and sluggishly paced."
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"The movie lopes along from one half-baked scene to the next, interrupted on occasion by car-porn sequences."
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"It's off-putting, rude, misshapen, and more often than not hysterically funny. The second half, sadly, is an ear-splitting train wreck."
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"While this latest Rogen-penned iteration is a game try, it feels a bit like he's trying to make a volume out of a footnote."
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"In a last-minute tweak, the production has also been meaninglessly 3-D-ified - never mind that there's nothing whatsoever 3-D-ish going on. Maybe those clumsy 3-D glasses are meant to let moviegoers mimic the superhero mask-wearing experience?"
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"The Green Hornet is what you get when someone who dropped out of high school to do standup comedy, then spent a decade in movies and television, conceives a Hollywood "passion project." [24 Jan. 2011, p. 82]"
"High hopes of magic from the Gondry-Rogen pairing are dashed. Some neat touches aside, this isn't so much eternal sunshine, more superbad."
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"The Green Hornet provides a half-hour's worth of mildly entertaining travesty before collapsing in a clamor of bombastic action sequences and lame wisecracks. "
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"Injecting a devil-may-care attitude into a franchise-focused blockbuster only gets you so far. When all is said and done, this wasp's got no sting. "
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"The high point might be the opening scene, before the stars arrive on screen. "
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"Hiring this sensitive fantasist (Gondry) to make the superhero saga The Green Hornet is like hiring satirist John Waters to make "Rambo." Hard to think of a more mystifying mismatch of filmmaker and material. "
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"Sadly, these small bursts of beauty seemed so at odds with the movie's general crushing mediocrity that they were like quickly squelched protests against it. "
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"Gondry's update of vigilante crime fighter The Green Hornet's escapades is above all an exercise in frustration. "
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"There's nothing here but a concept and a marketing and merchandising strategy, at the center of which somebody - oh, no - had to come up with an actual movie. "
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"Billed as an action comedy, The Green Hornet isn't funny, and the action is often too frenetic to make any impression. "
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"The film's only unqualified success is the end title sequence-because it's genuinely stylish, because it looks like it was shot in genuine 3-D and, most of all, because it's the end."
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"Such a feeble excuse for an action comedy that it's already taken pride of place in my upcoming worst-movies-of-2011 list."
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"May not be the most tedious superhero movie ever - the competition is admittedly tough - but it is certainly in the running."
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