The Incredible Hulk

THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008) - June 9, 2008
A sort of mediocre but basically enjoyable superhero film about the Incredible Hulk getting angry and smashing things. It accomplishes its unstated goal of essentially erasing the memory of Ang Lee's more character-oriented film, and unlike that one delivers pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a Hulk movie (the Hulk getting angry and causing mayhem). The movie is at its best during the action scenes -- particularly the final one in which the Hulk takes on Abomination in the streets of "New York" (a very poorly disguised Toronto) -- but the film is oddly lifeless during the non-action parts, as if all involved knew that the destruction is what people came for and went on autopilot for everything else. It wasn't bad, per se (I was never bored), but it wasn't that great either. **1/2