The movie may be bad, but this review by Peter Bradshaw for the Guardian is pure gold:
"Hulk. Smash!" Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hulk also go rarrr! Then smash again. Smash important, obviously. Smash Hulk's USP. What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment. Hulk in boring film. Film co-written by star. Edward Norton. Norton in it. Norton write it. Norton not need gamma-radiation poisoning to get big head. Thing is: Hulk head weirdly small. Compared with rest of big green body.
And I think I need to change which paper I read... ^_^
Hulk. Not an academy award nominee style film. Hulk. Not exactly Oscar worthy. Its a movie about the Hulk. Hulk smashes. Kids love Hulk. Adults loved Hulk when they were kids. Now he's just "The Freakin Hulk".
I love superhero movies. I get goosebumps when they show an amazing scene. I had goosebumps almost all the way through Transformers.
So yes, I do feel excited about seeing this film. I was never a comic "reader" I tended to just look at the pictures!!
omg. loved that review...
I was actually gonna watch the film with some friends.
maybe we should watch something else huh...?
are they going to try again with a third film?
of course.
The Incredible Hulk is one of the movies you go to see because it's just fun to watch. You don't go to see it for the characters or for the plot, you go to see it because you want to see Hulk Smash.
Regardless, I loved the review.. even though it was long-winded and irrelevant.
Comic book movies can't take themselves too seriously, or they start to get stupid, like certain parts of Spider Man 3.
At work, there's a girl with really big hair. She was not happy about something and banged a door on her way out of the main room. When she came back in, she had a look on her face that could kill. She has big shoulders, and was wearing a green blouse, and one co-worker whispered "Hulk smash" as she stalked by us.
also i think he's actually right in spots but i disagree with him in other bits. i dot think the movie was kinda poor but only cause it was basically just one long fight scene that had no great choreography to it. yeah yeah i know hulk smashes and what not but at least give me a reason to care unlike the comic book where it doesn't matter what his motivation is. It wasn't the best mavel movie this year. that slot has to go to iron man.
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