Incredible Hulk Review

Ok so I will start off by saying that this movie exceeded Hulk by a lot.

I loved the camios of Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno from the original television series.

My feelings about the movie itself are mixed. Besides the amaxing Ed Norton, the acting was mediocre. The Abomination looked...weird. The plot was ok. Directors and writers always take the Hulk story differently than any other superhero story. They make it drama-filled and add too much emotion. I mean yeah, Banner obviously has a continuous inner struggle to be able to control his emotions and anger, but there was too much focus on the inner struggle. I would have liked to see a little more action, but like I said before, this movie was MUCH MUCH MUCH better than Hulk.

The beginning of The Incredible Hulk showed any quick flashes of documents and data and if you pay close attention, some interesting things popped up. Stark Industries came up, along with the name Nick Fury. These appearances were quick and seemingly insignificant, but I think that they actually played a much larger role which I will discuss later.

I do not know how I felt about Betty. It just seemed like we did not have much reason to want Banner to be with her in this movie. Sure, she was able to calm down the Hulk, but other than that, she was very 2-dimensional and not unlikable but not likeable either. I did want to kick her father, the general, in the face, but he was a jerk face. But he was not quite bad enough. Does that make sense?

I think that they could have done more with the Brazilian chase scene. The setting was perfect for an intesnse Bourne-like chase scene, but what they did with it was weak.

What The Incredible Hulk did do, rather excellently I might add, was lay out the basis for a rumoured Avengers movie coming in the future. The final scene between the general and Tony Stark confirmed that Nick Fury and Iron Man are building a team of superheroes. The following small characters that appeared in The Incredible Hulk are actually quite significant Marvel characters that will probably show up in Avengers:
Mr. Blue is The Leader, the evil supergenius who becomes Hulk's enemy.
The doctor that treats Betty Ross is Doc Samson, the psychiatrist superhero from the Marvel Universe.
The college student that captured the footage is Mr. Magee.
The other college student with him is Mr Jones, the boy that Bruce saved in the original comics who is now the Red Hulk.

All of this information makes th movie much more interesting indeed.
Gotta love the Marvel Universe and the fact that all of its inhabitants are intertwined.

Good Avengers website: http://marvel.com/universe/Avengers