Review: Green Lantern

There's something childlike about this latest comic book conversion and you expect kids will lap up the adventures of the Green Lantern and his fights against intergalactic evil - yet you also get the feeling this is completely unintentional and they were actually trying to make something that plays to the same crowd as Marvel films such as Iron Man, Thor and Captain America.

But thanks to second rate CGI and a script full of one dimensional characters and jokes that even the ever- charismatic Ryan Reynolds can't bring to life, Green Lantern sits at the lower end of the superhero films seen on screen - more Batman & Robin than Batman Begins.

Add on the poor box office returns and you get a commercial failure too. You do wonder if they might've actually been able to save that if they'd embraced a younger audience and gone in for a PG instead of the usual 12A. In the end The Green Lantern is a misse doportunity on all levels.