Green Lantern

This movie was strange. Maybe, like I am Number 4, I did not expect it to be so science fictiony. The last two superhero movies I've watched, if I can remember correctly, was X-Men and The Green Hornet. In both of these movies, the superheros are human, and everything takes place on Earth. Well, Green Lantern has a huge inter-galactic back story that I wasn't really expecting and I had a hard time buying into it. I don't expect the movie to be believable, but most of this one felt like a cartoon, and I had some The Mask flashbacks with all the green.

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Tim Robbins, Green Lantern is about a team of green superheroes trying to save the galaxy from a fear-thriving rogue alien. A green ring chooses Reynolds to be one of the Green Lantern, and Lively is the love interest. There's no denying that Reynolds is a good-looking guy, but there's just something about his face that seems hyperbolic, and is hard for me to take seriously as a superhero. Blake played one of the girls in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and I've liked her ever since, she is a beautiful girl with an interesting voice. Peter Skarsgaard plays Hector, the disappointment of a son to Tim Robbin's Senator character. Hector could have been an interesting character, but the way things play out, he ends up being kind of pointless.

There are definitely some plot holes and this movie asks you to suspend belief in reality, but it isn't a bad movie, just strange.