Green Hornet’ is fun … well, mostly

Like so many other movie fans, I like Seth Rogen. I came late to the Judd Apatow -created series “Freaks and Geeks,” which brought early fame to Rogen, Jason Segel and James Franco, among others. But I have enjoyed his various film roles, from “The 40 Year Old Virgin” to “Knocked Up” and onward.

And like so many others I looked forward to what he could do while reimagining an action franchis such as “The Green Hornet.” Though I wasn’t a particularly big fan of his previous action attempt, the fairly lame and only occasionally funny “Pineapple Express,” I blamed that on the obligatory learning curve.

I wasn’t disappointed. Rogen’s “The Green Hornet,” which was directed by an almost absent Michel Gondry — who, if he made an imprint on the film, did so relatively silently — is just what it wants to be: “Superbad Goes Superhero.”

My only real problem: The continual and insistent gaybaiting. Do all stuck-in-mid-adolescence characters have to have such a fear of intimacy that they feel the need to label every emotion “gay”? Seems so. And, after a while, it gets tiring. And boring.

Otherwise, while it may not be “Iron Man,” and is nothing like “Darl Knight,” “The Green Hornet” is passable enjoyment.

Below : The original “Green Hornet,” starring the great Bruce Lee.