Anyone expecting a wind-down of our current superhero cycle will have to wait a while. The stink of failure had been trailing The Green Hornet for many months, as talk of reshoots and delays tagged it as “a troubled production” even before Sony chose to release it in the January dumping ground. Reviews were accordingly toxic (a 38 on Metacritic, a 43% on the Tomatometer), with most citing co-writer/star Seth Rogen and director Michel Gondry’s creative incompatibility. Yet The Green Hornet is a movie about a superhero, however obscure, and thus it surpassed any reasonable expectations, cruising into first with $34 million on its opening weekend. That left the normally bankable Vince Vaughn to limp into second with his odd comedy/marital psychodrama The Dilemma, which took $17.4 million in its debut.