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Incredible Hulk, The
EMAILPRINTUniversal Pictures, Marvel Studios

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 38 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Fantasy | Sci-fi
Written by:
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book)
Jack Kirby (Marvel comic book)
Zak Penn
Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 13, 2008
DVD: October 21, 2008
Running Time: 114 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some frightening sci-fi images, and brief suggestive content
Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, and William Hurt
The Incredible Hulk kicks off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most popular Super Heroes of all time. In the film, scientist Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows—cut off form a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross—Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power. As all three grapple with the secrets that led to The Hulk’s creation, they are confronted with a monstrous new adversary known as the Abomination, whose destructive strength exceeds even The Hulk’s own. (Universal Studios)
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What The Critics Said
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
"Iron Man" has more wit and style, but Hulk is a neat thrill ride with an intelligent script by Zak Penn and smart, well-paced direction by the French director of "The Transporter" series, Louis Leterrier.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Five years after Ang Lee attempted a stylistically and narratively daring reimagining of what a comic-book movie could be (an example that tanked disastrously at the box office), the big green gamma-guy returns to the screen in a purer, more unadulterated, vastly more entertaining form.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Embraces its identity as a sci-fi-summer-action-blockbuster extravaganza. Along the way, it actually comes close to finding the balance that Lee was looking for.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The Incredible Hulk is a more traditional superhero movie than its predecessor and should please those who want their not-so-jolly green giant served with helpings of action. This film provides less talk and more smashing.
Read Full Review >Premiere Eric Kohn
By handing the directorial reigns to Louis Leterrier, the Parisian filmmaker responsible for the breathless "Transporter" films, Universal reveals its desire to emphasize spectacle over story.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Edward Norton's a more evocative actor than Eric Bana, and he supplies all the emotions required by Leterrier and writer Zak Penn.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Until the last 20 minutes, which stumble around in an attempt to set up a sequel, The Incredible Hulk keeps slamming everything forward, satisfyingly.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The dialogue is minimal but sharp, the pace swift and the action sequences suitably loud and brutal.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Luckily, the new The Incredible Hulk is more like those 80-page special issues that comic-book publishers sold in the early 1960s for a quarter, packed with old, favorite story lines.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
Loses something when it depends on its computer-generated creatures to carry the story. The effects are a mile above the previous Hulk film, but there's still a certain awkwardness to some movements, and an odd lack of definition to the massive muscles that makes them seem like gelatinous sacks of meat.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
The Incredible Hulk is weightless--as disposable as an Xbox game. It's also fairly entertaining: swift, playful without pitching into camp, and acted with high spirits.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
There's enough adrenaline pulsating throughout this bang-up Marvel Comics adaptation to erase 2003's Hulk from memory (Ang who?).
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
The result is a classic comic-book hero quest that, while not entirely novel, hews to its own rules and conventions with dignity and artfulness.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
A straightforward actioner that delivers the goods with no unnecessary frills or digressions.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The Incredible Hulk is just a luridly reductive and violent B movie -- one that clears a bar that hadn't been set very high.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It may be that the Hulk role was not made for sensitive method actors like Norton or Bana. When '70s TV-"Hulk" Lou Ferrigno made his obligatory cameo, a palpable wave of affection swept through the Seattle preview audience.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
The Hulk himself looks more steroidal than superheroic, as if the expressive beast from the first film had been replaced by a WWE star.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
There's a certain pleasure to be had in some of the physical blowouts.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
By the time the Incredible Hulk had completed his hulk-on-hulk showdown with the Incredible Blonsky, I had been using my Timex with the illuminated dial way too often.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Closer in spirit and tone to the comic books that spawned it.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Like its monstrous hero, The Incredible Hulk gets the job done with minimal artistry and a lot of noise.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The final confrontation between the Hulk and Blonsky, now the roaring Abomination, is like the clash of Downey and Bridges in "Iron Man," only not as exciting.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Don't run off before the credits start to roll, though: The Incredible Hulk ends with a jokey cameo by a certain movie star with his own newfound superhero franchise.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
This Hulk is more viscerally angry and packs a bigger wallop than Ang Lee's talkier, more introspective version. But it's hardly the best superhero movie around. "Iron Man" was wittier and more fun.
Read Full Review >Empire Simon Crook
A franchise rebooted with efficiency, energy and sporadic invention, although Hulk 2.0 hardly smashes it out of the park.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
Cheers to lower expectations, then, because The Incredible Hulk is The Pretty Good Hulk. All things considered, of course.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The result is solid and efficient, if unadventurous, illustrating both the lure and the limitations of comic book extravaganzas.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
It's nothing we haven't seen done better before (by Paul Greengrass in the recent "Bourne Ultimatum," for instance), but it's good enough as kinetic entertainment.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Zack Haddad
In the end, don't go see this if you are looking for an intellectual film. If you're into seeing some fun, mindless action in a faithful Marvel comic adaptation for a couple hours, then go see the Hulk smash some stuff.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Do we really need another Hulk movie? I was one of the few critics who actually liked Ang Lee's 2003 "Hulk," but it didn't exactly ring the cash registers or clamor for a continuation.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Playing characters familiar to the fans, we have William Hurt as a blustering general, Tim Blake Nelson as a kooky scientist and Tim Roth as an evil soldier who morphs into a monster. All of them seem to be directing themselves.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
Why remake a crappy movie five years later if it's only going to be marginally less crappy?
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
A middling superhero movie! I wish I could say that was incredible.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Once again, though, the film is defined by the strengths and weaknesses of the source material. While Bruce is working on anger management, you may find yourself working on boredom management, and matching his rate of success.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The Incredible Hulk suggests only that we've bottomed out on special effects: They're not necessarily getting better -- they're just getting bigger. Technically, Leterrier's Hulk is as realistic-looking as a rampaging green giant could be. But that doesn't make him credible.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
One has to admit that enormous moviemaking skill goes into the creation of pictures like The Incredible Hulk. The sheer craft directors such as Leterrier lavish on them is awesome to me. I can't imagine how they orchestrate -- or even remember -- all the little pieces of film they require to build their big set pieces. That thought, however, is nearly always followed by this question: Why do they bother?
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
For me, there's a problem with The Hulk, always has been, though it hasn't seemed to bother the tale's legions of fans. When the sensitive, physically unprepossessing Banner/Norton turns into the gargantuan, muscle-bound, growling Hulk, there's a total disconnect.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Roth and Hurt glower semi-engagingly, and while Norton's scrawniness works, he seems intellectually disengaged, despite his helping to craft Zak Penn's script.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 186 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Nick gave it a4:
Even with Ed Norton this turned out to pretty much be just a mindless thrillride, with worse special effects than the first Hulk.
Derek S gave it a5:
I felt the original was much better as far as story and acting are concerned. Norton seemed like he was bored the entire movie and very disconnected, just a terrible job as far as being a action movie star. Bana did a much better job as portraying a man that was wrestling with his inner demons, and this movie had no explanation as to why Norton was able to take that huge dose of gamma, like the 03 movie did. Watch the movie and then watch the Ang Lee version, yes the new movie is heavy on action unlike the first but the Lee version had much more substance and should be given some room to maneuver because it was setting up the origin of IMO, one of the greatest superheroes of all time. Skip this movie unless you like mindless action, if you want substance then watch the original, I wish they would have made a sequel instead of re-work the whole movie, especially since Bana actually looked like the comic book Bruce Banner, unlike Norton.
Ferdbut B gave it a6:
The Incredible Hulk is a fun decent movie that's a vast improvement over the 2003 version. The movie isn't incredible other than the special effects and often the movie did get boring but, the cast was okay and the action was impressive so it wasn't bad.
R. L. gave it a7:
This far more action packed and stylized film reboot is more angry and action packed than the cerebral and slower 2003's Ang Lee directed Hulk( which I prefer over this one.) The Incredible Hulk is very fast paced and hurtles trough it's story at lighting fast speed ( which doesn't hinder the film at all.) the pace makes it easier and harder to follow, what makes it hard is the fact that it just doesn't take it's time to explain allot of the minor details and explore the story more. On the flip what makes it easier is that it's complete fun form beginning to end and has a likable and well know actor at the helm as the main character, namely Edward Norton. Who did an exceptional job as Bruce Banner, Norton had the right mannerisms that Dr. Banner had in the comic. He put the his obsession with getting rid of the Hulk, he put his strong love for Betty Ross and his hatred for General Ross in there too. But here was one thing they didn't put much effort into Norton's Banner, his genius. This reboot focused more on the action then the story of it all, but hat doesn't mean this was a bad film, no in fact this was a well made and well acted comic book film. Louis Leterier directs an exceptional cast to a whole new level of action and style in the incredible Hulk. This reboot should not be looked down on it's great fun and very well done,albeit it's got more of the 80's series in then the comic's, but still nothing to frown upon. All in all The Incredible Hulk is just what the title says, Incredible and is definitely worth the watch. Hulk Smash!!
Funes Memorious gave it a1:
The claymation SFX: genius!
Hyper S gave it a7:
No real complaints. The story wasn't full proof and the plot wasn't original in anyway. You don't have to have seen the movie, but you pretty much know where its going as it quickly falls into the cliche action movie. However, the special effects are extraordinary (a step above the original hulk), the pace of the story felt fine, and the battle sequence was attention holding. Don't expect anything new or imaginative and you could probably enjoy the movie for what it is... there is no development of any love story... just some good ole' fashion HULK SMASH!
Jack S. gave it a7:
This had some of the most greatest special effects! I do think though, this was as about as good as Iron Man, but not even close to The Dark Knight. The special effects aren't as good as Pans Labyrinth. It had some of the most amazing action scenes ever! Plot wasn't that good, it didn't really make sense at parts of the movie. But, it had nice action, in the end the point became clear, and the ending keeps you waiting!
