The Green Hornet: Critic Reviews

The Green Hornet is a disjointed jumble of gag laughs, goofy stunts, and bizzare casting.

If unmodulated decibel level and childish, dorkish energy alone could lower a city's crime rate, then consider the cartoon bad guys of cartoon Los Angeles flattened.

Quite a bit less than the sum of its appealing parts.

The movie is extremely loud and none too funny.

Almost everything about the film is disappointing.

As directed by Michel Gondry, Hornet's visuals have a few pixilated flourishes. But the production design is more cluttered than eye-catching, and the near-pointless use of 3-D simply muddies the photography.

This morning, the unconscious bodies of three pickpockets were found in front of the Post's offices. Safety-pinned to one was an envelope containing the following movie review.

Did I mention that the movie's in 3-D? Someone should have let Gondry know.

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.

Michel Gondry has crafted an irreverently funny, ultramodern take on the 1930s radio serial, with a vibe so casual you half expect star Seth Rogen to amble off screen and put his feet up on the seat next to you.

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.

There's simply no center here, no sense that someone is guiding the ship.

Despite its obvious angling to become a franchise, this Green Hornet offers little that's worth committing to even the "cult flick" chamber of your brain.

There are some nifty things in between the lulls...

The Green Hornet doesn't seem worth the outrageous 3-D-glasses surcharge. In all senses, there's little that jumps out at you.

A facetious industrial product, and the first out-and-out bore of the year.

"The Green Hornet" is an almost unendurable demonstration of a movie with nothing to be about.

Too much. Too numbing. Too coy. And ultimately too violent.

The movie lopes along from one half-baked scene to the next, interrupted on occasion by car-porn sequences involving the hero's luminous limo the Black Beauty.

Hard to think of a more mystifying mismatch of filmmaker and material.

The movie these guys have come up with is fresh, funny and a bewildering surprise.

A big, sloppy, loud, grating mess of a movie.

The story falls apart, while Gondry ratchets up the silly action so far over the top the structure of the film can't support it.

The film is a blast.

There might be a funny movie in a story about a crime fighter who's in it only for the publicity, but "The Green Hornet" isn't it.