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The Incredible Hulk (2 Disc Edition) [2008]
from Universal Pictures UK
starring Tim Roth, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, Edward Norton
directed by Louis Leterrier

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

A more accessible and less heavy-handed movie than Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk, Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk is a purely popcorn love affair with Marvel's raging, green superhero, as well as the old television series starring Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the beast within him. Edward Norton takes up where Eric Bana left off in Lee's version, playing Bruce (that's the character's original name) Banner, a haunted scientist always on the move. Trying to eliminate the effects of a military experiment that turns him into the Hulk whenever his emotions get the better of him, Banner is hiding out in Brazil at the film's beginning. Working in a bottling plant and communicating via email with an unidentified professor who thinks he can help, Banner goes postal when General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and a small army turn up to grab him. Intent on developing whatever causes Banner's metamorphoses into a weapon, Ross brings along a quietly deranged soldier named Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), who wants Ross to turn him into a supersoldier who can take on the Hulk. The adventure spreads to the U.S., where Banner hooks up with his old lover (and Ross' daughter), Betty (Liv Tyler), and where the Hulk takes on several armed assaults, including one in a pretty unusual location: a college campus. The film's action is impressive, though the computer-generated creature is disappointingly cartoonish, and a second monster turning up late in the movie looks even cheesier. Norton is largely wasted in the film--he's essentially a bridge between sequences where he disappears and the Hulk rampages around. As good an actor as he is, Norton doesn't have the charisma here to carry those scenes in which one waits impatiently for the real show to begin. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• the not quite incredible but generally very good hulk
  marvel comics green goliath returns to the cinema screen for another go. is there anyone reading this who has never heard of the character? if so: doctor bruce banner used an experimental ray treatment on himself that as a result turns him into a huge strong rampaging monster every time he gets rather angry. hunted by army general ross, who just happens to want the ray treatment so he can create hulk style soldiers to use as weapons, banner is on the run. ross is also the father of his girlfriend betty.more info

• Rippling Big Green!
  In 2003 acclaimed art-house director Ang Lee produced the first modern incarnation of Marvel's popular comic-book superhero. This particular version received a critical and commercial drubbing after an initial successful opening weekend box-office worldwide. It was a version that sought to involve a mature audience. It was a very adult, fairly dark and emotionally deep film that summer audiences and critics alike may not have been expecting. Expectation was that it would be a crowd-pleasing blockbuster with... more info

• Dumbed-down generic action movie
  With the two modern entries in the Hulk franchise viewers will largely fall into 3 categories - 1) people who prefer this Ed Norton vehicle to Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk because the latter was "too arty" whereas this is more of an action movie; 2) people who prefer the Ed Norton/Louis Leterrier project because it is closer in style to the 1970s Lou Ferrigno TV series; 3) people who prefer the Ang Lee experiment because it drew its influence more from the paper source material and generally felt like a more-rounded... more info

• Smashing
  After the stylish but disappointing Ang Lee Hulk film, this new Incredible Hulk movie is a vast improvement. This film doesn't go down the origin story root with the creation of the Hulk handled in the opening credits montage, instead the film concentrates on Bruce Banner's attempts to control and cure his condition while being hunted by the military.
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