I am not happy about this movie. For me, it should be as much a comedy as the Dark Knight. It's not supposed to be a comedy unless the man making it thinks it was such a ludicrous idea that he could only make it as a comedy, and for that, I feel insulted.
I grew up on the Green Hornet and for me he was a cool super hero like Batman because he didn't trapse around with fucking super powers. He was human, vulnerable and used his fighting skills and intellect to thwart villains. The 60's were not about having super heroes but more about overcoming the system and being heroic. Batman and The Green Hornet epitomized everything that was good and heroic about an action hero. It was their style and mystique that made them interesting—not their sense of humour. But then came the Batman tv series and it seems to me that Rogen wants to do to the Hornet what Dozier did to Batman. Difference is that Batman was campy homage to the original.
Rogen's Green Hornet looks to do nothing but introduce the character to the Pineapple Express pot smoking crowd which don't have an idea of the sensibilities and the culture of a super hero written for the 50's. Better to have done the movie as a period piece or not at all. Is there anything more inane than pothead culture trying to become artsy. And if Seth Rogen can play the Green Hornet, what's next, Jack Black as Superman or Jonah Hill as Flash?
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