Planet Hulk
Product Description
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/02/2010 Run time: 81 minutes Rating: NrAmazon.com
A whole new world of hurt! He was a monster, impossible to control, too dangerous to ignore. So Earth’s mightiest heroes exiled him into outer space. But now THE INCREDIBLE HULK crash-lands on the distant planet SAKAAR, ruled by the tyrannical RED KING. Sold into slavery, the Hulk becomes the planet’s mightiest gladiator—but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his fellow fighters: crafty insectoid Miek, ruthless rock-man Korg, ex-shadow pirest Hiroim, and the noble-born rebel Elloe. Unlike Earth, the desperate people of Sakaar believe a monster… More >>
February 8th, 2010 at 1:11 am
The Incredible Hulk is exiled to a distant planet by Earth’s greatest heroes. The journey doesn’t go as planned and the green monster lands on Sakaar, he is sold into slavery and forced to compete in gladiatorial games for the planet’s King. Sound familiar? It should! Even some of the dialogue makes you say “Hey wait a minute!” Ultimately it still works and is very enjoyable. For those who read the graphic novel you will be sad with some of the changes (you can thank lawyers for that)!
BLU RAY THOUGHTS: It looks beautiful and sounds good, but it is still a cartoon and isn’t probably that much of an upgrade over DVD. Special features are good. FINAL VERDICT: Not upgrade worthy, but if you still haven’t purchased…go BLU!
Rating: 4 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 2:11 am
If it were visually interesting, the utterly cliche ridden script might have been more tolerable. Maybe… Of course it was also filled with weird logic gaps. For example the gladiators are kept in line by tazer discs that shock them if they misbehave. Midway through the movie Hulk shoves a sword through Beta Ray Bills disc and shorts it out. If it were that simple, why didn’t it happen in the first 10 minutes? Hulk himself is completely inconsistent. sometimes behaving like a mindless brute and sometimes calm and relatively intelligent. No explanation is given for why he never turns back into Bruce Banner. The other characters are either ciphers or (in the case of the bug-like Jar Jar Binks/Golllum character) gratingly annoying.
The previous MARVEL direct to DVD efforts have been entertaining, this one not so much. Don’t crash into Planet Hulk.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 2:30 am
ok, lets say you never read the comic and have no clue as to this story line… then, and only then would this movie be good… otherwise WTF were they thinking?!?!?!?! it butchers a beautiful storyline and turns it into a shot story piece of crap… they loose so much depth as to who the charaters are, and who the hulk and and what he becomes. theres so much lost imagination put into the comic book in this movie it feels like a cliffnotes version. this movie should have been done in 2 or 3 movies and every line, scene, part of the comic should have been included… wtf were they thinking?!?!?!?!
Rating: 2 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 5:18 am
Unlike Ultimate Avengers 1 and 2 this movie is not. I am a hardcore Hulk comic book fan and that could be why I am so hard with this movie. I hate having to give this bad review but I do not know what the people at Marvel Comics were thinking is like the first Hulk movie directed by Ang Lee! Anyways here’s a quick recap and be very warned it contains SPOILERS!!!
The intro is near comic book perfection and it makes it clear that Hulk is not in Kansas anynmore by the alien language. The action in the arena is brutal and graphic not apt for children. However it is obvious that the arena sequences are condensed and sped up, so eventually they face Beta Ray Bill (Even though I like them) yep instead of the Silver Savage! what the heck Marvel??? No silver Surfer?? That killed it for me there. So they escape and then from there everything is sped up which leads toa pretty decent battle between Hulk and Red King and then the end really sucks, that’s all I am going to say, well no I will add smells like a rushed movie.
Some technical aspects:
Movie last 81 minutes according to the back of the book.
Graphics are ok in Blu Ray nothing like 3d effects so you are kindfa better just buyind the dvd version and safe some money. Lets say the art is not like the comic book story unlike DC’s Public Enemies which was flawless.
Action is somewhat ok,there’s killing, red blood, green blood and the nastyness of the spikes possesing people
Story starts good but then it turns into Planet Hulk light and condensed lots of stuff gets skipped like No Name Brood is not there at all.
My Walmart version came with Wolverine and the X-Men Hulk episode, Spiderwoman Motion Comic, X-Men Motion Comic, Thor Tales of Asgard opening sequence (by the way this movie is coming in 2011), two music videos from X-Men and Spiderwoman and of course disc 2 the digital copy of Planet Hulk. I have no idea if the Amazon version has all these contents.
Why did Marvel sucks in the animated movies department they should take pointers from DC comics on how they deliver in their movies. I could not give this movie more than two stars and lie to all of you in what I found simply a rushed condensed project and very bad adaptation of the comic book series. Like the tittle of my review said by at your own risk or just rent it. Thanks for reading and have a nice day, hope this what helpfull.
Rating: 2 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 8:16 am
I was gonna buy this movie for my friend for his birthday, and I am so glad I didn’t. This movie was horrible. it was poorly written, and frankly absurd. The story being as predictable as it was, drastically drifted from the Comic. They make Hulk get some shiny disc attached to his chest, and somehow that makes him able to speak thier language, but it also somehow improves his intelligence. It was the shiitiest twist on the storyline ever. They also neglected to put in the real end of the story which is the most relevant event in the comic because it leads into World War Hulk. I genuinely got excited for this, but it looks like someone wrote a SciFi story and then they cut and pasted the names and characters from the comic and put them in the movie. Marvel seems to only get half of their staright to dvd movies right. Iron Man sucked, Dr. Strange Sucked, The Avenger Movies were decent, Hulk Vs Wolverine was Cool, Hulk Vs Thor; not bad… They better shape up, because right now DC keeps blowing them out of the water.
Rating: 1 / 5