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Posted on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 : 11:06 a.m.

'Green Lantern' makes a fun but clunky move to the big screen

By AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

The Green Lantern
Opens today at Rave, Quality 16, Brighton
Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times
Grade: B-

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The Green Lantern is armed with the incredible ability to turn will power into energy, creating almost anything imaginable, except perhaps a coherent script. Credited to at least four (and likely more) screenwriters, this fun but terminally unwieldy adaptation of the venerable DC comics franchise pinballs between above-it-all camp and gravely serious sci-fi shenanigans, never quite settling on a proper shade to paint across its many epic vistas.

Read the full review here