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Recently, I went with a huge group of family and friends to watch Seth Rogen’s newest flick – The Green Hornet in 3D. I didn’t have high hopes for this movie, and credit to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for not only not meeting my expectations, but by thoroughly making me think that my money would have been better spent in a Madoff ponzi scheme.

Want to know how bad this movie was? It’s so bad that it provoked me to write this blog post as a warning to others. It’s so bad that while I am writing a blog post about it, I promised myself I wouldn’t spend more than 20 minutes on it. Seriously, it’s not worth the effort.

While I’ll be the first to admit that there’s definitely funny aspects of the movie, it’s not enough to make this movie watchable. Even the funny aspect of the movies seem forced. The plot is inconsistent and filled with holes, the acting is subpar, and really the entire premise of the movie is flawed. (Spoiler Alert) The climax of the movie still baffles me to this day. The audience is expected to believe that the filthy rich Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) could only manage to record a monumental confession on a throw away $5 voice recorder. The last 20mins of the movie has Reid rushing back to Daily Sentinel to upload the voice confession to the internet, while being chased by what seems is every villain in the city. Disregard the fact that somehow Reid managed to not record the confession, but focus on the fact that this multimillionaire who funded the creation of all the lavish vehicles and costumes couldn’t manage to get an iPhone or any other smartphone to record the confession. Then he could have simply uploaded the confession over 3G and would have avoided a deadly chase back to DS headquarters.

Furthermore, The Green Hornet is a perfect example of a movie that misuses the 3D effect. Gizmodo has a great article on the differences between movies that actually film in 3D and a movie that was converted to 3D. TGH was clearly converted to 3D after filming and it shows. Throughout the movie I would remove my glasses and you would see exactly the same image. Very disappointing. If you still want to watch this movie, please save your self the extra $5 and don’t watch it in 3D. Come to think of it, the best 3D use comes in the ending credits when displaying the old Green Hornet animated logos. I could go on, but I’ve reached my 20minute ceiling.