The Green Hornet Trailer Will Make You Cranky And Confused

Question: Does the Green Hornet movie even know what it wants to be? I think it's aiming for the cocky comic action that brought Iron Man many sacks heavily laden with money. Instead, it only feels like the demented, oozing offspring of Daredevil and a Judd Apatow movie.

Also, I am concerned about Jay Chou's aka Kato's hair. What are the bangs hiding? WHAT?

Sometimes, I just want movies to have the conviction to stay in one genre. You don't have to be a self-aware comedy, a big budget action movie and a make-work project for Edward James Olmos at the same time. Pick one thing and be good at it, instead of hoping Cameron Diaz will somehow save your movie. It's not 1997 anymore. She won't.

The strangest thing about this monstrosity is that it's directed by Michel Gondry. Now, perhaps the trailer monkeys got a little too weirded out by his original footage and spliced in more explosions and hunger dunger dang music, so the trailer looks like what a superhero movie trailer should look like. But unless the actual movie has the Green Hornet riding in a crocheted supercar that unspools yarn as cotton batting clouds pass by, I'll be concerned that Gondry has given up on being twee. And he did it so well.

Still, at least it's better than the trailer for Skyline, but that's a whole 'nother rant.