Green Hornet Movie

Does the world need more laughter?....sure it does...but at the expense of a historically self motivated, knuckle busting, suave, hard nose, intuitive, and dramatically portrayed character such as the Green Hornet...No.

Don't get me wrong, I like Seth Rogen I really do, but historically speaking this just isn't the Green Hornet that should be presented to audiences hoping for a little action and adventure without too much slapstick...which this film tends to have. Not just that alone but the over tendency to just add wise ass "ooops did I do that" actions in the film as well.

Sadly another Green Hornet film can not be made after this one unless of course it follows the same trend of comedy and limp "!*ck" humor that runs amok; unbridled throughout the film.

This film might be great for younger viewers who just don't know about the 1940's and 1960's versions (serial and television) not to forget the radio shows as well, of a character with a heroic/historic family past. You have to wonder if the Hornet's blood relationship with the Lone Ranger will even be mentioned or at least hinted at. Yea, yea, yea I know the legal complications and all that, but at least a fair mention wouldn't hurt.

"The Lone Ranger property was sold to another company in the 1950s, which resulted in a legal complication that precluded The Lone Ranger being directly associated with the Green Hornet (though a comic book from NOW Comics depicted the Britt Reid's living room furnished with a painting of a man dressed very similarly to the Lone Ranger, and the radio series had expressly indicated the presence of just such a portrait hanging there)" - Wikipedia -

The present comics are really nicely done and I can only hope that the readers of the series can decide for themselves the version that best portrays the spirit of the Green Hornet.
Of course I'll see the film and probably enjoy it on a certain level...but the tried and true depictions of the past will always remain the best of those generations...it's just too bad that the powers that be felt that a little levity was needed in a politically correct sense.

But we'll see.....