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The Message: Alright, well played. You successfully made a 'green hornet' seem cool.

The Truth: The movie itself never made as strong an attempt to be 'cool,' as opposed to silly, corny, or crass.

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Professional and amateur sports teams have shown an irrational attachment to one of nature's most annoying insects, so perhaps the stunning and downright slick poster for Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet shouldn't have convinced anyone on its own.

Where the poster is minimalist, edgy, suggestive and original, those qualities are some of the most difficult to translate to moving pictures. The story written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg was no exception.

One might ask exactly why the decision was made to advertise The Green Hornet as anything resembling a superhero or masked vigilante movie with a serious tone, since it was when the clumsy comedy attempted to shoehorn in elements of that genre that it most floundered.

But what the movie gets right the poster accentuates. When your iconic car is a blacked-out 1966 Chrysler Imperial, it's a wise move to put it front and center in all of your marketing.

Goldberg spoke at length about the lengths to which fanboys will go when a beloved property is being revisited. And as much as we'd like to think that the poster deserves to adorn any dorm room wall, we can't help but think the movie was just too juvenile to do so without raising some eyebrows.

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