The Green Hornet: Blu-ray (2011)

I enjoyed roughly 30 seconds of The Green Hornet's two hour runtime. At least someone made the fine decision to include Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away" on the soundtrack. Other than that, there was nothing redeeming about this mess. I had very low expectations going in and still came away disappointed. The movie focuses as much on comedy as action but is too filled with bad visual gags lame one liners and fake awkward dialogue to actually be funny. Director Michel Gondry has a nice flair for interesting visuals but there's very little of that on display here with a focus on standard action movie quick cuts. Seth Rogan is a good comedic actor (and since he co-wrote it that explains a lot of the films failed attempts at humor) but not an action hero. Christoph Waltz is utterly wasted as the paper thin villain and Cameron Diaz is really annoying. I guess Jay Chou isn't terrible and for this movie that's pretty high praise.

Well at least the blu-ray is pretty sweet. Being a new release action movie one would expect the presentation to feature great visuals and a booming soundtrack and the disc does not disappoint on a technical level. If you have completely different tastes than me and liked this piece of trash you should feel free to enjoy it in all it's horrible hi-def glory.

The Green Hornet may be the worst movie of the year so far and will most likely go down as one of the worst superhero movies ever made. I mean at least Catwoman had Halle Berry in that tight black suit, Elektra had Jennifer Garner in whatever she was wearing (sidenote: I never saw Catwoman or Elektra) and Batman and Robin had.........well alright, The Green Hornet is better than Batman and Robin.

Ratings:

Movie: 1
Blu-ray: 5