Seth Rogen is a Better Superhero Than Ryan Reynolds in Latest Trailer for The Green Hornet
The easy joke over the last eighteen months was that audiences wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the Seth Rogen-led version of The Green Hornet and Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern. Well, this week, an easy distinction revealed itself: The Green Hornet doesn't look like death warmed over. Let's call this latest trailer the "Suck it, Green Lantern" edition.
Not much has changed since the last trailer debuted back in the spring: Seth Rogen still stars as playboy Britt Reid, a partying layabout who has his world turned over when his millionaire father winds up dead; Jay Chou is Kato, his father's assistant and an all-around gadget maven, who helps Britt fulfill his Green Hornet destiny while bickering with his new boss; and Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz are there to lend some bigger names to the poster as the girl and the heavy, respectively. If there's a star here, though, it's the chemistry between Rogen and Chou; the pair look like a regular Laurel and Hardy (or Rogen and Rudd). Tack on some absurd and awesomely staged fighting scenes directed by Michel Gondry, and you've got what could be the most fun film ever released in January. Or at least one that I can't wait to see. Sorry Green Lantern, you lose.
VERDICT: Sold!
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If your idea of a good super-hero movie is Kick-Ass, then I can see how you might like this.
It's not.
If your idea of a good superhero movie is a terrible superhero movie, then I can see how you might like this. 🙂
I like it. That's pretty much closes the debate.
It has that Iron Man vibe, good director and it looks like really well made production. A superhero movie for grown-ups, not for snotty kids.
AND they didn't need to shave Seth Rogen's chest for no reason unlike SOME "super"hero movies coming soon.
Obviously, the studio has promised Movieline advertising -- some backroom deal. This trailer is pure industry garbage. Rogen, as extremely limited as he is, has exposed the clubiness and aggression in his foisting on American eyes in accepting this role: he displays a myopic misunderstanding of his schlubby, innocent, zoned out appeal. The gay paranoia humor is flat and overplayed. The jokes suck in general, Cameron Diaz makes zero impact, Gondry is humiliated. Yes, Green Lantern looks like shit too -- but in what (honest) opinion is this a good movie? Let this be a warning against studio arrogance. This is not a superhero movie for grown ups. Dark Knight was that. This is sad, late night cable waste of money bullshit.
Reboot!
WOW!
You think that looks better then Green Lantern, it looks gibberish., first off the bottle opening scene was way beyond retarded and and after seeing the fight scene by the car...I don't have words to describe how bad it looked.
Plus comparing a first trailer to a 4th of a movie that's one in about 2 months to one that's not out for another 8 months is beyond ridiculous.
Okay...who would WANT to see Seth Rogen shirtless to begin with...gag...you?