Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
Sell Us Your Item
For up to a $0.75 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
yourworld_book Add to Cart
$9.86  & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
SpotlightMedia Add to Cart
$12.69  & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Have one to sell? Sell yours here

Green Lantern (2011)

Ryan Reynolds , Blake Lively , Martin Campbell  |  PG-13 |  DVD
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (748 customer reviews)

List Price: $19.94
Price: $9.96 & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
You Save: $9.98 (50%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Want it Friday, May 24? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
Watch Instantly with Rent Buy
Green Lantern (2011)   $1.99 $9.99
Green Lantern: Extended Cut (plus Bonus Features!) (2011)   -- $14.99
Green Lantern: Extended Cut (2011)   -- $14.99

Other Formats & Versions

Amazon Price New from Used from
Multi-Format Blu-ray $9.99  
Blu-ray 1-Disc Version $14.93  
DVD Widescreen Edition $9.96  
Digital Copy Notice: The digital copy code included with this product will expire on October 14, 2013. This is the last date that the digital code can be used to obtain a digital download.
Up to 65% Off Select Movies on DVD & Blu-ray
Save big on select all-time favorites on DVD and Blu-ray, including "Gone with the Wind," "The Goonies," and "Harry Potter."

Frequently Bought Together

Green Lantern + Captain America: The First Avenger + Thor
Price for all three: $39.94

Buy the selected items together

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?


Product Details

  • Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively
  • Directors: Martin Campbell
  • Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: October 14, 2011
  • Digital Copy Expiration Date: October 14, 2013 (Click here for more information)
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (748 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004EPZ07K
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,950 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Green Lantern" on IMDb

Special Features

- Deleted Scenes
- Preview of new Justice League book #1

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

As far as superheroes go, Green Lantern may lack the clean, iconic lines of his more respectable DC counterparts Superman and Batman, but the very wonkiness of the premise (earthling joins elite force of space cops) lends itself to a pulpy, operatic, not-entirely-serious approach. (One of his teammates is a talking carrot, after all.) Capitalizing on a charming performance by Ryan Reynolds, the feature-film adaptation is a big, messy movie that, at its best, generates a feeling of aw-shucks wonder. Much like Thor, it isn't afraid to loosen up on the inner turmoil of its hero and go macro. Based on comic writer Geoff Johns's retrofitting of the title character, the story follows Hal Jordan (Reynolds), an impulsive test pilot whose encounter with a dying alien leaves him with an energy ring capable of weaponizing his imagination. While struggling to master his will-based powers, he must deal with threats both earthbound (a hilariously nebbishy Peter Saarsgard, who may be the first supervillain to rock a hoodie) and galactic. Martin Campbell, a director who specializes in more down-to-earth heroics (Casino Royale,The Mask of Zorro), brings a pleasing matter-of-fact baseline to the proceedings, an approach that makes the increasingly outlandish effects truly feel special when they occur. Green Lantern has its debits, certainly--the lack of a memorable theme, a second act that hems and haws before getting to the action, the standard origin story shoehorning in too many secondary plots--but its final scenes succeed on a Gigantor, cosmic level where most superhero movies fear to tread. The bigger it goes, the more goofily enjoyable it gets. --Andrew Wright

Product Description

In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, an elite force of protectors for peace and justice has existed for centuries. They are the Green Lantern Corps. When a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the Corps' newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds). Bringing the popular superhero to the big screen for the first time, Green Lantern also stars Blake Lively (Gossip Girl), Peter Sarsgaard (Orphan), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), Academy Award® nominee Angela Bassett* and Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins**.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
185 of 224 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Daddy Issues July 1, 2011
Format:DVD
Green Lantern has received quite a bit of flak from reviewers for not being mainstream enough to relate to modern audiences. And that's a shame, because if Green Lantern is guilty of anything, it's of being a SUPERHERO movie.

Back before all these directors started streamlining films, revising backstories, and taking out Spider-Man's technologically-advanced web shooters, comic books were a glorious hodge-podge of the near possible, the impossible, and the just plain fantastic. Because superhero settings include every superhero and villain imaginable, they have to accommodate magic, aliens, superscience, and alternate dimensions in one heady mix. This makes for a very rich comic book series that can be intimidating for new audiences - which is precisely why movie directors cut out so much.

But you can't cut all the crazy out of Green Lantern and still stay true to the comics. And so, with tons of exposition, Green Lantern rabbit-punches viewers with world-shattering fact after mind-altering fact in the first five minutes: aliens exist, there's a giant yellow monster imprisoned in a planet, ancient humanoids predating humanity have been guarding the universe with green willpower, and there's a dizzying variety of highly advanced technical races from across the galaxy. Green Lantern makes Superman's backstory look quaint. His name doesn't help either - Emerald Flashlight has to say an oath that activates a ring that's charged by a lantern that's powered by a planet that's actually the embodiment of all sentient beings' will. No wonder critics got confused.

)o()o()o( "I pledge allegiance to a lantern, given to me by a dying purple alien." - Hal Jordan )o()o()o(

Director Martin Campbell knows all this. He makes fun of the ridiculous circumstances in which Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds and his fab abs) finds himself, ranging from a dogfight with two robot jets to a dogfight with a giant soul-eating monster. Part of what makes Green Lantern so entertaining is that it embraces its pulpy roots: there's the childhood sweetheart (smoking hot Blake Lively as Carol Ferris who just happens to be a successful businesswoman and fighter pilot), the nebbishly awkward villain (Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond), and tough-as-nails "red Spock" Sinestro (Mark Strong). The real villain of the piece, Parallax, sounds like a 1980s video game effect - oh wait, it is! This is not a movie to be taken too seriously.

)o()o()o( "It's not a magic ring--it's a ring powered by advanced technology!" - Hal Jordan )o()o()o(

And yet, Green Lantern is no movie trifle. The challenge with a superhero who has powers like Green Lantern is that the possibilities are literally endless - the rings are powered by the hero's will, which means he can technically imagine anything. This also means that an abusive hero might imagine black holes and solve all of his problems that way. Green Lantern cleverly constrains these god-like powers by imposing plot-related restrictions on Hal's creativity. When all Hal can come up with to stop a helicopter from crashing into partying guests is a Matchbox car in a ramp, it's because he played with one in his nephew's room the day before. When he's trying to use the sun's gravitational pull as a weapon, it's because he used the Earth's gravitational pull as a weapon against the two jets earlier and because his tutor Kilowog points out that gravity is a...uh, harsh mistress. Hal Jordan might always manifest boring weapons straight out of a first-person shooter, but that's because he's harboring a lot of guilt over his military daddy's death.

)o()o()o( "You thought I wouldn't recognize you just because I can't see your cheekbones?" - Carol Ferris )o()o()o(

Speaking of daddy issues, Green Lantern is one giant ball of forest-colored father/son conflict: Hal and his military pilot father, Hammond and his successful senator father, dead Abin Sur and grieving Sinestro, Abin Sur and the newly created Green Lantern, Parallax and his newly adopted avatar Hammond...it's clear the Green Lantern writers were looking for some emotional hook, and that hook was spelled out D-A-D. Green Lantern tries very hard to be deep.

Unfortunately, Green Lantern can be pretty shallow at times. Parallax, remember, is an ancient being predating much of humanity's evolution, but he falls for the oldest trick in the book. We're supposed to believe that Parallax really, really, REALLY hates Abin Sur and everything associated with him. After he kills Abin Sur, you have to ask why Parallax wants to go after just Hal Jordan when he could be eating so many other Green Lanterns for breakfast.

When Green Lantern goes big, it's glorious, but when it pulls in tight, the plot turns an earth-shattering battle between god-like beings into a schoolyard shoving match. But really, that's pretty normal from superhero comics. It's just that today's movie superhero fans expect a guy in a cloak that's just like you and me without any of the world-spanning baggage.

Green Lantern's guilty of being true to Green Lantern, spandex, mask, ring and all. For those who find it implausible, maybe a superhero powered by a jade-colored light source isn't for them.
Was this review helpful to you?
204 of 256 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie July 30, 2011
Format:DVD
I dont understand why people hated this movie so much. I have been a huge green lantern fan since i was 7 so ive been waiting for this movie for 13 years. The visual effects were great. The story (even though innacurate to the comics) was good. Ryan Reynolds played a near perfect Hal Jordan. The only problem was Hal was kinda whiny in parts in the movie which he never was in the comics. Blake Lively played Carol perfectly. The only problem I had witht he movie was the fact it wasnt long enough. The movie was only 1 hour 40 minutes. To fit in more character development and more story it should have been atleast a 2 hour movie. Didnt get enough development on the other lanterns, and the only ones you meet are Sinestro, Kilowog, and Tomar-Re. Even then you didnt get much of them. They need to make a sequel and go more in depth on more characters........the scene during the credits set up the sequel beautifully. Overall I loved this movie I sat in aww with goosebumps the whole movie (maybe because ive been waiting for this for years), but it was a really good movie. People complain because it wasnt realistic and goofy.......Has a superhero movie ever been realistic or not goofy in some way thats why we read and watch superhero movies to believe in something unrealistic.
Was this review helpful to you?
60 of 74 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Movie Despite the Bad Reviews August 28, 2011
Format:DVD
I'll admit up front that I wasn't that familiar with the Green Lantern character before this movie. In fact, if I hadn't have talked to a friend who was a fan of the comics, everything I knew would have been from watching the old "Justice League" cartoons on Saturday mornings -- the ones in which Green Lantern was just another random face in the crowd. At least he wasn't the Wonder Twins, but Aquaman got more love than Green Lantern on that show. Thankfully, my friend explained why Green Lantern is so cool. I mean, having the power to create anything you can imagine... that's pretty awesome stuff. Obviously, the more imaginative the person, the better, and that was my main concern going in to this movie -- that the things the writers came up with for Green Lantern to create wouldn't be that creative. But I think they actually did a pretty good job in that department. Of course you have to keep in mind that he has to come up with these things on the spot, without a lot of time to sit around and think about it. The movie does have its flaws. There are a few scenes that feel cliche and it could have used a bit more action and a longer end fight, etc., but I still found it to be a fun, inspiring movie overall. I loved the "courage overcoming fear" storyline. As it turned out, it was the best time I had at the movies all summer.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars GREEN LANTERN - looking for the next one in the series
I haven't watched the one I purchased but did go to see this at the movies. I'm a superhero fan! I have to have them all. This was pretty good - well done and presented. Read more
Published 9 hours ago by Sammie Ferrell
4.0 out of 5 stars Got bad press
This movie is a comic book come to life. I think that is why the critics and viewers had a hard time with it. It is actually very true to the old Green Lantern mythos. Read more
Published 1 day ago by MirajaniHiggins
4.0 out of 5 stars Green Lantern [Blu-ray]
This was my first taste of Green Lantern so there were no expectations to be met.
The movie was good and Ryan Reynolds is always good to watch. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Paul Murray
4.0 out of 5 stars Better than people say but not great
This is a "B-movie" for sure and like all such movies they are only enjoyed if you don't take yourself too seriously. Read more
Published 2 days ago by T. C. Amos
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Since Spider-man, Green Lantern is my Sons favorite. I myself enjoyed the move very well. We hope to see another one, Green Lantern Two very soon.
Published 3 days ago by Brian Musgrave
5.0 out of 5 stars Christopher Nolan & Zack Snyder should do a Green Lantern 2 movie
Christopher Nolan ( THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY ) and Zack Snyder ( 300 & THE MAN OF STEEL ) could make a movie showing the Downfall of Sinestro and how the Yellow Ring's power matches... Read more
Published 4 days ago by Victor
4.0 out of 5 stars Good
I liked this movie. I thought Renolds did a good job as the Green Lantern, and I hope they do another film as well.
Published 6 days ago by Paul Stewart
1.0 out of 5 stars Green Lantern is about imagination something this movie sadly lacks.
It's not that it's a terrible movie. Even terrible movies generally have something about them that's positive (beer and satire worthiness). Read more
Published 6 days ago by Karen Polanco
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
I thought this movie was really good. It was better than I thought it would be. I really loved it!
Published 7 days ago by Samantha Smarr
3.0 out of 5 stars Green Lantern's debut
Interesting comic book hero with a normal everyday perspective. GL certainly needs another movie to enhance the great possibilities with this powerful comic book hero.
Published 7 days ago by Jake Wayne
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought


Forums

Have something you'd like to share about this product?
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions


Look for Similar Items by Category