Green Hornet

This is going to be a short review, so to make this post worth your time, here's a picture of Jennifer Tilly dressed like a gangster.

( I actually kinda like her voice. )

Anyway, Green Hornet, actually a lot better than you'd think. It basically take the square peg of the slacker comedy bromance and puts it in the round hole of the standard superhero formula (daddy issues, dead loved one angst, and so on). You know, like Watchmen and Kick-Ass and countless comic books have tried to do. It's just that this movie really nails the balance between playing things straight and incorporating ridiculousness like a prepubescent vigilante (there are points at the movie that are really shockingly dark).

Really, part of the fun is seeing a bunch of people who know better just cutting loose and having fun. Between Michael Gondry's visual weirdness, Christoph Waltz's performance as an aspiring supervillain, and the traditional Seth Rogen comedy, I think it's destined to be a cult classic, if not a legitimate hit. And really, it's good to see anyone tinkering with the formula, Green Lantern.

So... Catwoman and Bane, eh?

Putting aside the whole "wait, isn't Bane Hispanic?" (yes, but hell if I'm going to discuss the race of a comic book character from the 90s) thing, can we just be glad that our female lead isn't Vicki Vale, or the most generic love interest Batman has ever met? Seriously, she's not a character, she's a Trivial Pursuits answer.

Q: The woman Batman is least likely to end up with is...

A. A cat burglar who possesses the only real understanding of Batman's dark psychology.

B. The daughter of his worst enemy, torn between loyalty to her father and her love for Batman.

C. An Amazon princess who fights a never-ending battle for justice and equality.

D. A reporter most famous for being objectified in an issue of All-Star Batman & Robin.

ETA: Although if they were going the Hispanic route with Bane, wouldn't Javier Bardem have been an awesome choice?