The Green Hornet (film)/YMMV

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These things about The Green Hornet (film) are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

  • Crazy Awesome: Britt's description of Kato basically boils down to this.

"You're like a human Swiss Army Knife!... it's a thing that you keep pulling things out of, every time you think you're done pulling out things, another cool thing pops right out and that's you!"

  • Ear Worm: WA SHIYONG SHUANGJIEGUN HUU HUU HAA HEI!!
  • Fridge Brilliance: When Britt was a child his father told him there was no point in trying if you fail, resulting in Britt never attempting to make anything of himself. Kato, in contrast, has tried multiple careers (as shown in the comic book prequel) which have all, humorously, failed, and by the time of the movie has resigned himself to being a newspaper mogul's engineer and coffee boy.
    • Britt mentions that his father's statue looking over everyone only reinforced his Jerkass image, citing that as the reason to decapitate it. At the end of the movie, the statue is fixed, only the head is now crooked downward, because for the first time in his life, Britt can look his father in the eye.
    • The more lighthearted tone of the film itself...the serials, tv programs, and comics play the story out very straight (compare and contrast the Adam West Batman to the Green Hornet featuring Bruce Lee).
    • Britt being an inexperienced fighter who relies on Kato when facing multiple opponents. In the TV series this is why Britt had Kato in the first place, to watch his back.
    • How could Britt, a Rich Idiot With No Day Job always get people much more intelligent than him to do his bidding? Then you realize that Britt had a Missing Mom and he could never confront his father as a child. He has been training in Passive-Aggressive Kombat just to survive since his childhood. Now he is a Manipulative Bastard at the price of being an Man Child.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In a twisted form of Product Placement, Crystal Clear (played by James Franco) names the designer labels his henchmen are wearing; one episode of MTV's Spider-Man series, based off the movies James Franco is involved in, starts with Peter Parker referring to a shady guy and his henchman as "Dolce and Gabbana".
    • A lot of Jay Chou's Concept Videos could possibly act as Kato's entire backstory.
  • One-Scene Wonder: James Franco as Crystal Clear.
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