Hornet's nest

Camp classic comes back

Having been made into radio shows, movies and a camp TV show over the past 70 years or so, The Green Hornet is the latest in a long line of productions featuring the popular pulp hero and his sidekick Kato.

Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of LA's most prominent media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene - until his father (Tom Wilkinson) suddenly dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire.

Striking up a friendship with one of his father's more industrious and inventive employees, Kato (Jay Chou), they see their chance to do something meaningful for the first time in their lives - fight crime. In order to do this, they decide to become criminals themselves, with Britt becoming a vigilante known as The Green Hornet and with Kato as his partner.

Using all his ingenuity and skill, Kato builds The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with equal parts firepower and horsepower. Rolling in a mobile fortress on wheels and striking the bad guys with Kato's clever gadgets, The Green Hornet and Kato quickly start making a name for themselves. With the help of Britt's new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they begin hunting down Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz), the man who controls LA's underworld.

Catch the action and humour in 3-D when The Green Hornet hits cinemas on February 3.