This damp-squid of a movie desperately trying to be funny failed miserably at being anything like a parody of a Superhero it claimed to be. Why anyone thought that allowing ‘Superbad’ coarse-humor comic actor Seth Rogan to take on this project of bring this much loved and adapted Radio Serial to the screen and give him the title roll was a good idea, was way beyond me. The only other person more miscast was Cameron Diaz playing the Green Hornet’s secretary/second side kick who had very little to do than just simply smile all the way through the long 110 mins.
The story is of Britt, a spoilt rich nerdy kid who grows up and inherits his father’s newspaper empire and all his billions. Totally bored and failing to do anything of note with his life so far, he teams up with Kato, one of his late father’s disgruntled servants, and together they decide to pull together what talents they have and become superheroes. The plot of the rest of the story is very thin to say the least and just serves as a vehicle lots of fighting, shootouts car chases. To give this relationship between the two men a contemporary touch, there are constant innuendos that this may be more than ‘bromantic’, but trust me, they are not gay at all!
There were two reasons this movie featured on my view list. Firstly it is directed by Michel Gondry (‘Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind’ for which he won the Screenwriting Oscar) and the Villain was played by Christoph Waltz (Oscar winner for ‘Inglorious Bastards’). This was however not the best word from either of them.
If you really want to see what this movie should have been like, then check out ‘Kick Ass’ or ‘Iron Man’.
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