The Incredible Hulk: OK I’m a true believer

June 21st, 2008

Incredible Hulk posterI had no vested interest in the Incredible Hulk movie apart from the fact that I am a comic book fan.   Any comic book movie that is well made and does well only serves to help other comic book movies.   It may simply be showing that the genre and non-icon characters are a viable film commodity.

Or in the case of Iron Man showing that making a good film first will generally lead to a good comic book movie.

So today, over breakfast it was decided to go see Hulk pretty much on a whim.

Oh wow am I glad we went.

Fun.

Clever.

Fun.

There’s your review.   It was just plain good fun with a lot of comic book references and a LOT of Hulk television series nods.   ‘You’re the man.’ Banner says to Lou Ferrigno in a great Stan Lee’ish cameo.   Lou, in another appreciated nod to the series also does the Hulk’s voice.

Marvel have shown that Iron Man wasn’t a fluke and that the best thing they can do from now on is manage their own properties.

Ed Norton as Bruce Banner

Norton is great as Bruce Banner, he just has the look, he’s small and human.   I think too that he must have wanted to be in a film where he could wear a baseball cap all through it.   The rest of the cast all put in great performances and of course there’s the Tony Stark scene.   Once again Stan Lee makes an appearance, a great appearance, the man is truly a living legend.

Of course I can’t talk about it without mentioning the CGI.   There was only one scene that I even registered the fact.   I’m not going to say which one it is but I think it was more an issue of location affecting the effect rather than a really bad CGI effect.

People who are hung up on the CGI for Hulk need to unclench and get off their superior high horses.   If you’re the type of person who can’t look past the fact that there are puppets on Farscape then you will never be happy with Hulk and if you don’t get Farscape then I can’t help you.

I think ultimately it looks great, there were shots in there framed like they were panels from the best of the comics.

Clothing.

Thank you whoever decided that his clothes had to be addressed.   The age old ‘Oh why is it that his pants still fit, that wouldn’t happen‘ conversation can take a back seat.   It’s taken care of, and yes, you heard right, the rumour is true, the purple pants do make an appearance.

Hulk smash!

What I found was that they managed to take a character that I generally don’t care for and make me want to cheer as he uttered the phrase ‘Hulk smash!’

Nuff said.

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