Green Lantern

GL was a typical hero story.  Some white guy gets amazing powers, but must learn to be responsible and, well, heroic.  Most notable similar movies would be The Matrix, Thor, Spiderman.  The description of the Green Lantern Core also had my inner droid screaming, "They're Jedis!"

Story Critique:
The story okay but, like I said, pretty traditional.

Plot Problems:
The Immortals were pretty easy to convince to create a yellow ring, even after having seen the destruction that using the yellow energy had wreaked on their fellow Immortal. 
GL was chosen because he was the most fearless person (man?) on all of Earth.  But if you listened to his backstory, especially with Blake Lively's character, you'd see that he was actually one of the most fearful men on the planet.  He was so afraid of his feelings, of losing something that he loved (again), that he just ran away.  That's not being fearless.  It's certainly not overcoming your fear and being courageous.  It's letting your fear control you.
I'm still a little confused why he needed to make a race car track and fighter jets with his ring.  Why couldn't he just imagine controlling the broken helicopter and landing it safely?  He created a shield over his lady love, why couldn't he do something similar with the helicopter?  May be I'm missing something because I don't know the comics, but I'm confused why he couldn't use the ring to make him telekinetic or have powers like the Force (but, obviously, with the ability to press buttons instead of having to mentally throw rocks at buttons).

Feminist Critique:
There was one major woman character.  She was White and very skinny, but brunette, at least (and that was a dye job!).  I really didn't like when she was used as bait for GL, but she actually gave the speech that helped GL feel his fear and do it anyway.  She also was quite courageous herself, showing pilot skills at the beginning, business skills throughout, and computer skills (under intense pressure) towards the end.  So I guess I can forgive using her as bait, since she was pretty kick-ass otherwise. 
There was one other woman character, a scientist.  She didn't do too much, but it was nice to have a smart, strong woman character in there.

Ethnic Critique:
This movie was incredibly white.  Whitey white WHITE.  GL got even whiter (his eyes went to pale blue) when he used his powers.  There was pretty much only one character of color, the aforementioned scientist.  I'm not even sure if this is a SPOILER, but the one Black character died.
GL's best friend was ethnically ambiguous to me.  He could've been Middle Eastern, Indian, or Jewish.  He was light-skinned and geeky.
There did not, at least, seem to be any actual stereotypic characters that I can recall.

Summary:
The movie was okay.  It wasn't epic, or even great, but it wasn't horrible, either.  The CG was a bit over-kill, but the glowing suits were cool.  It's a basic superhero movie.  It has little ethnic diversity, although no stereotyping, and at least one strong woman character.