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Darting between Earth and the rest of the cosmos, Green Lantern can be fun as spectacle (which is why kids may go for it), yet the whole movie is eye candy, and not much more.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 6
For a movie that relies so heavily on energy to form its narrative, Green Lantern lacks any real oomph of its own.
—Bill Gibron filmcritic.com
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For a movie that touts the importance of humanity, Green Lantern is a strangely lifeless spectacle.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 6
Green Lantern does not intend to be plausible. It intends to be a sound-and-light show, assaulting the audience with sensational special effects. If that's what you want, that's what you get.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
...both off the wall and out of this world ? literally. More science-fiction space opera than superhero epic, it works in fits and starts as its disparate parts go in and out of effectiveness, but the professionalism of the production make it watchable in a comic book kind of way.
—Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times
- 6
It's not only light, it's thin. It's self-deprecating to a fault. Reynolds is required to practically wink at the audience, as if to say,?I know this looks silly."
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 5
Green Lantern is a mediocrity, neither folly nor kitsch.
—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine
- 5
...isn't much fun; the head-bashings and pummelings pile up high, and harshly. Reynolds and Lively and their unforced, considerable chemistry got me through the rough stuff. But barely.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
...serves up all the requisite [superhero movie] elements with enough self-deprecating humor to suggest it doesn't take itself too seriously. But familiarity may begin to breed creeping signs of contempt...
—Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter
- 5
...a personality-free franchise-launcher...
—Karina Longworth Village Voice
- 5
...a visually lavish sci-fi adventure [that] is a highly unstable alloy of the serious, the goofy and the downright derivative.
—Justin Chang Variety
- 5
For all the talk of conquering fear and harnessing energy, Lantern ironically plays it safe and gets grounded by a leaden, spiritless adaptation.
—Matt Stevens E!
- 4
There are movies willed to life by the passion of their creators, and there are movies like Green Lantern, which are willed to life strictly by market forces
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 4
...a relentlessly silly superhero flick with eyeball-rolling dialogue -- set in vast, familiar-looking digital realms that look like rejected models from the second Star Wars trilogy.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 3
...a new primer on how not to make a comicbook movie unless you want to screw shit up. Flat FX, smirky acting, clunky writing and clueless direction. WTF?
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 2
If the company is going to shove a property like Green Lantern down consumer throats ? drilling it into your child's consciousness, sweet tooth, toy emporium and anywhere else the company can place its brand ? the least it can do is give us a good movie. And Green Lantern is bad.
—Manohla Dargis New York Times