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Overview
Writers (WGA):
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book character) andJack Kirby (Marvel comic book character) ...
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Tagline:
Unleash the fury! morePlot:
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
1 win & 8 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(68 articles)
Bana's Movie Ode To His Favourite Car (From WENN. 6 August 2008, 6:25 PM, PDT)
Smart Alec Takes On Justice System (From New York Post. 4 August 2008, 12:49 AM, PDT)
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Very impressive! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)more
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some disturbing images and brief partial nudity.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
138 minCountry:
USAColor:
ColorAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Switzerland:12 (canton of Zurich) | Malaysia:U | Portugal:M/12 (original rating) | Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Canada:PG | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 (cut) | Germany:16 | Ireland:12 | Mexico:B | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:All | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39955)MOVIEmeter: 
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Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in "The Incredible Hulk" (1978), has a cameo in this film as a security guard. He reprised the role in The Incredible Hulk (2008). moreGoofs:
When Betty is drinking the beer, the bottle turns round between shots. moreQuotes:
Bruce Banner: You want to go to the review board on Monday and tell them we have developed a brand new method for exploding frogs?Betty Ross: I think there's a market for it. I mean, what if there's a plague?
Bruce Banner: What have you had, Betty, like one beer?
Betty Ross: I'm... I'm just saying... frogs start falling from the sky... who do they come to? We'll be world renowned.
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Are there any reference in the film to the Hulk mythology?Why did Bruce's father try to kill Bruce when he was a kid?
Will there be a sequel?
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I finally caught up with the film on DVD, after missing its cinema release and just not having the urge to see it until now. It has had some rather bad press, so I wasn't actually expecting very much.
One of the reasons I have waited so long was to let my son, (who is now eight) grow up a bit before seeing it. He was interested in the tie-in products filling the shelves in all the stores on release. A blanket-marketing ploy that is becoming more and more hysterical, I fear.
Another was that I was wary of renting it as the Hulk character has been rather mal-treated in live-action form.
Until Ang Lee's film.
Firstly, this isn't by any stretch of the imagination, a kids' film. Though my younger children watched it, it gave them serious food for thought about what scientists do to animals and people in the name of science. My oldest was enthralled. She appreciated Lee's magnificent use of the film medium.
This is a very dark movie. The origin-story has been manipulated and updated linking the two lead characters (Bana and Connelly) in a sorrowful, fearful event that happened to them both in their childhood. Nice touch.
"Banner's" (Eric Bana's) father (played by Nick Nolte) shuffles back into his life after 30 years incarceration for causing the events that had traumatized the young Banner. Banner later finds that his father had "experimented" on him when they were still a whole family. This creepy device effectively modernizes the story and it's ultimate revelation is a clever way of releasing the pent-up rage that Banner jr has locked within his mind. This rage feeds the Hulk. Banner finally becomes the Hulk after some incredible bravery in the lab.
The film's effects are superb. I am a very happy viewer. This is great cinema. A wonderful adaptation of a tortured, misunderstood human being.
Highly recommended, by me, for true Hulk fans.