The Green Hornet is the worst movie ever made.

(If you know me, you know that Napoleon Dynamite has held this spot in my mind for seven years. For Napoleon Dynamite to be replaced, then, is kind of a big deal.)

Anyway, the premise of the movie (and of the entire Green Hornet franchise) is interesting enough: the vigilantes treading the fine line between heroes and villains. Ignoring the little voice in the back of my head screaming "Batman, Batman!", this is not a bad way to frame the traditional hero story.

However, a premise must be accompanied by a plotline, and The Green Hornet has none. The screenwriter for the film has clearly never encountered a transition in his/her life. He/she also apparently does not realize that not only are there swear words besides "shit" in the English language (I know, I'm partial to "shit" myself, but still), there are also other words besides swear words in the English language.

Final straw: the most awful casting I've seen in a long time. Seth Rogen has no place in a movie that attempts to have some sort of moral (although it fails spectacularly in the execution of this) or storyline more complex than crude jokes (though he makes his fair share of these, and they're not even funny), and the guy who plays Kato is just a really abysmal actor. Both of them are overwhelmingly fake. Then again, maybe that's just the script they've been dealt.

(Full disclosure: I watched about 40 minutes of the movie before turning it off. If you know me, you know I must, must, must start whatever I finish. Also, that I grew up on Batman and thus am hostile to anything that attempts to infringe on the Batman world. Also, that I used to have a crush on Terry from Batman Beyond.)