The Incredible Hulk

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Tim Roth celebrated his 51st birthday on May 14th.   In order to celebrate here at Reviewing Movies and More, we've decided to review one of my son's favorite movies: The Incredible Hulk.

The Incredible Hulk is rated PG13 and was released in 2008.  It stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner (the incredible hulk), Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, William Hurt as General Ross, and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky.

Bruce Banner is a doctor who becomes an angry, giant green-skinned hulk every time his pulse gets too high, thanks to a gamma ray experiment. He's learning to control himself when the movie starts, but the army is after him.  They want to use his blood to create super soldiers.  So very soon, Bruce is on the run, after the Army finds him in South America.

The movie follows him while he tries to hide, is ultimately caught by the Army.  Since he's pretty much indestructible he manages to get away, and saves his ex at the same time.  Considering she's the daughter of the General that whats him so bad, this is a pretty big deal.

Meanwhile, General Ross has given something to one of his soldiers, Emil Blonsky, to make him into a super soldier as well.  It's not the same thing that Banner has taken, but it does still work to give him some super human skills.  He's power hungry, though and still wants more.

Bruce and Betty end up going to see a professor that Bruce has been corresponding with.  He sent "Mr. Blue" a blood sample, hoping that he would be able to find the cure.  He gives him an antidote, but they don't know if it will work only on that one instance, or if it will mean that he will never be the Hulk again.  As they are talking, Bruce is shocked to find that his scientist friend has made gallons and gallons of his blood and been testing it.  Bruce demands he destroys it all, but right about that time the Army shows up.  Blonsky comes in and insists on being injected with the Hulk's blood, and refuses to take no for an answer.

Bruce and Betty are taken away, but once they are in the air they realize that Blonsky is now huge and out of control.  General Ross calls in more fighters, but Bruce decides he's the only one that can stop him.  They drop him out of the plane, hoping that he will be able to turn into the hulk and save the day.


Overall, my family and I really like this movie.  My six year old says it gets 5 stars (out of 5).  It's one of his very favorite movies, and one he's seen at least a dozen times in the past few months.  He loves Bruce, but loves him even more when he's the Hulk.  Edward Norton is his favorite version of Bruce.

My husband says this is a 3 star movie. He says it's pretty good but not one of his favorite movies based on a comic hero.  He hasn't seen the 2003 version, so couldn't comment on which of them was his favorite.  His favorite scene of the movie was when the Army was shooting at the Hulk on the college campus, and he kicked butt and got away.

I would give this movie 3.5 stars.  It's also not one of my very favorite of the movies based on comics, but I think it was still done pretty well.  I like this version better than the one that came out in 2003.

Is this a movie I would pay for to add to our collection?  Certainly, but mainly that's because my son loves it so much.  We didn't buy it until after we had borrowed it from the library twice, though.