The Green Hornet
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: January 14, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
17
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 12, 2011
The film is a blast. Read full review
75
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJan 14, 2011
Feels like a movie that belongs in June or July, with all the other comic book fare. But I'll gladly take it now, no matter what the calendar says. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonJan 14, 2011
Seth Rogen is the Green Hornet. What else do you need to know? Read full review
75
Washington PostDan KoisJan 13, 2011
Kato's often the best part of the movie. Britt calls him a "human Swiss army knife," and he's right; Kato is not a sidekick, but a fully formed hero who's full of surprises. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJan 12, 2011
A big, boisterous action-comedy - a funny, exciting and intentionally goofy summer movie that just happens to arrive in the middle of January. Read full review
70
TimeJan 17, 2011
The mix is not nearly classic but is congenial enough to warm up a January weekend and perhaps to stoke a sequel. Call it "The Green Hornet Strikes Again?" No: "Kato II!" Read full review
70
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJan 14, 2011
Turns out, Michel Gondry has crafted an irreverently funny, ultramodern take on the 1930s radio serial. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenJan 12, 2011
Never achieves sufficient traction to go the blockbuster distance. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn LevyJan 14, 2011
Has enough kicks and verve to keep the winter blues at bay, at least for a little while. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversJan 13, 2011
The Green Hornet doesn't suck. But don't expect it to hang together either, what with the clashing tones and melting logic. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'HehirJan 14, 2011
Entirely watchable and often pretty fun, in a mishmashed, patchy kind of way. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondJan 12, 2011
Rogen isn't the obvious choice for a comic book icon but he forces his personality onto this material with an ingratiating ease. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJan 12, 2011
The Green Hornet, which strives to be a different take on the superhero genre, is an interesting film - until it devolves into abject stupidity. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsJan 13, 2011
It's a strange, shapeless, rarely satisfying, but generally amiable movie in which everyone appears to be faking it as they go along, and almost-almost-getting away with it. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJan 17, 2011
At least The Green Hornet is likable, and a refreshing change from the heavy, angst-ridden superhero pictures so beloved by obnoxious fanboys. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJan 13, 2011
Even as a mindless diversion, it's weak. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigJan 13, 2011
Some of the car gadgetry, Kato's specialty, looks cool...The Green Hornet is otherwise colorless, numbing and sluggishly paced. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 13, 2011
Quite a bit less than the sum of its appealing parts. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesJan 13, 2011
The movie lopes along from one half-baked scene to the next, interrupted on occasion by car-porn sequences. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJan 13, 2011
Too much. Too numbing. Too coy. And ultimately too violent. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJan 12, 2011
It's off-putting, rude, misshapen, and more often than not hysterically funny. The second half, sadly, is an ear-splitting train wreck. Read full review
45
MovielineElvis MitchellJan 12, 2011
While this latest Rogen-penned iteration is a game try, it feels a bit like he's trying to make a volume out of a footnote. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumJan 12, 2011
In a last-minute tweak, the production has also been meaninglessly 3-D-ified - never mind that there's nothing whatsoever 3-D-ish going on. Maybe those clumsy 3-D glasses are meant to let moviegoers mimic the superhero mask-wearing experience? Read full review
40
The New YorkerDavid DenbyJan 21, 2011
The Green Hornet is what you get when someone who dropped out of high school to do standup comedy, then spent a decade in movies and television, conceives a Hollywood "passion project." [24 Jan. 2011, p. 82]
40
EmpireWilliam ThomasJan 12, 2011
High hopes of magic from the Gondry-Rogen pairing are dashed. Some neat touches aside, this isn't so much eternal sunshine, more superbad. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJ. HobermanJan 12, 2011
The Green Hornet provides a half-hour's worth of mildly entertaining travesty before collapsing in a clamor of bombastic action sequences and lame wisecracks. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJan 11, 2011
Injecting a devil-may-care attitude into a franchise-focused blockbuster only gets you so far. When all is said and done, this wasp's got no sting. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJan 14, 2011
The high point might be the opening scene, before the stars arrive on screen. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyJan 13, 2011
Hiring this sensitive fantasist (Gondry) to make the superhero saga The Green Hornet is like hiring satirist John Waters to make "Rambo." Hard to think of a more mystifying mismatch of filmmaker and material. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreJan 12, 2011
A violent, clumsy, jokey, badly-plotted and miscast mess. Read full review
30
SlateDana StevensJan 14, 2011
Sadly, these small bursts of beauty seemed so at odds with the movie's general crushing mediocrity that they were like quickly squelched protests against it. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJan 14, 2011
Gondry's update of vigilante crime fighter The Green Hornet's escapades is above all an exercise in frustration. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 13, 2011
There's nothing here but a concept and a marketing and merchandising strategy, at the center of which somebody - oh, no - had to come up with an actual movie. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJan 12, 2011
An almost unendurable demonstration of a movie with nothing to be about. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJan 12, 2011
Billed as an action comedy, The Green Hornet isn't funny, and the action is often too frenetic to make any impression. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJan 13, 2011
The film's only unqualified success is the end title sequence-because it's genuinely stylish, because it looks like it was shot in genuine 3-D and, most of all, because it's the end. Read full review
0
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJan 14, 2011
Such a feeble excuse for an action comedy that it's already taken pride of place in my upcoming worst-movies-of-2011 list. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickJan 14, 2011
Overblown, interminable and unfunny. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJan 13, 2011
May not be the most tedious superhero movie ever - the competition is admittedly tough - but it is certainly in the running. Read full review
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