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SETH ROGEN<\/strong> is wealthy slacker Britt Reid who teams up with Jay Chou (Kato) to form the Green Hornet team in the new film bearing that name and Rogen’s imagination.<\/p>\n Fans Will Love Seth Rogen’s ‘Green <\/strong>Hornet,\u2014 Not Too Much For Others<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s a minor point and a minor achievement.\u00a0 But the unique take that Seth Rogen has manages to pull off with his co-writing of the story for the new superhero movie, The Green<\/em> Hornet,<\/em> is that what transpires for the most part on screen is what a little boy might conjure up as he engages in innocent play with his toy action figure.<\/p>\n The opening scenes of a young boarding school miscreant—sent home for trying to take on a bully—clutching his dearly beloved toy Superman, are the key to the tone of the film.\u00a0 This would seem to be a no-brainer, given that Rogen the actor is pretty much typecast as the man-child with the frat boy mentality, and there is plenty of that in the character of spoiled, wealthy slacker, Britt Reid.<\/p>\n Rogen isn\u2019t interested in doing a \u201cserious\u201d version of a superhero action film; but, it isn\u2019t exactly a satirical free-for-all, either.\u00a0 Like many of his super hero brothers, Britt Reid takes a childhood trauma and makes it the basis of transformation into defender of the American Way of Life and of innocent victims of predatory criminals.<\/p>\n At first, it\u2019s a way of blowing off youthful steam, a lark.\u00a0 And, it\u2019s also the initial way he\u2019s thumbing his nose at his late father\u2019s opinion that he\u2019s nothing but a failure.\u00a0 James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) was The Daily Sentinal\u2019s tyrannical publisher, felled by a bee sting, buried with accolades and memorialized with a statue that his son promptly defaces.<\/p>\n Britt has never read a \u201ccomplete edition of the paper.\u201d\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t know the first thing about running a business.\u00a0 All he knows is partying and being waited on hand and foot.<\/p>\n Every bleary morning-after hangover is medicated by a perfect cappuccino prepared by someone called Kato (Jay Chou).\u00a0 His late father\u2019s mechanic not only makes the perfect cup of jo, but he\u2019s also somewhat of an inventor and a bit of a martial arts master.\u00a0 His fighting prowess saves his employer one pankish evening when Britt confronts some thugs he hasn\u2019t a prayer of beating.<\/p>\n Police mistake the duo for criminals, and Britt realizes he\u2019s found his calling.\u00a0 While Britt masterminds their fights for justice, Kato calmly executes the hardware to execute the plans; and the blaring Sentinel headlines about the Green Hornet catch the disapproving eye of a villain called Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz), who thought he had his thumb on all of L.A.\u2019s criminal\u00a0\u00a0 element.<\/p>\n Neutralizing the menace of Chudnofsky won\u2019t be the Green Hornet\u2019s finest hour.\u00a0 That will come when Britt stands up to the corrupt District Attorney (David Harbour) and discovers his manhood (aka, adulthood) has been validated, he\u2019s found peace with his father, he can acknowledge Kato is his indispensably superior \u201cexecutive associate\u201d and accept the legacy his father has left him in the form of the Sentinel.<\/p>\n Clearly geared to his myriad fans, this is a vanity project for Rogen with not much to recommend it; least of all its 3-D format and thankless role for Cameron Diaz of brainy, bubbly Lenore Case. According to information found at IMDB, future superstar Bruce Lee got the 1966 TV series\u2019 role of Kato because, as he said, he was \u201cthe only Asian actor who could pronounce Britt Reid.\u201d<\/p>\n While I wouldn\u2019t mind a more creatively thought out second installment from Rogen, and his fans will most certainly want more, most film critics have gone after Rogen\u2019s effort with the zeal of pest exterminators, hoping this Green Hornet buzzes off into obscurity.\u00a0 Rated PG-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SETH ROGEN is wealthy slacker Britt Reid who teams up with Jay Chou (Kato) to form the Green Hornet team in the new film bearing that name and Rogen’s imagination. 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