"Where are we going?"
"I've no idea. I thought you knew."
The Green Hornet in 3D is an odd film - think The Dukes of Hazzard meets Iron Man and you're getting there - and it suffers because it does not quite seem to know exactly which audience it is targeting. It starts off promisingly, but very quickly the writing starts to veer between being sharp and amusing to flabby and turgid. The younger audience will love the slapstick (e.g. a nicely-staged extended argument fight) but also be unsettled by some of the more violent imagery on display. The relationship between Seth Rogen as Britt Reid a.k.a. The Green Hornet and Kato has a pleasing easy rapport, and Cameron Diaz is efficient as the exposition-spouting secretary. Although the film is generally amusing and entertaining, both the narrative and set-pieces increasingly jump-the-shark to the point that the final act becomes tiresome rather than gripping, and yet again the late 3D conversion is frequently shoddy and distractingly uneven.
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