Hulk smash box office records!! Actually, I don’t know if he did or not but I know this movie was a lot of fun. True the CGI is still pretty noticeable- I should remark I watched this at 1080 dpi on a 32 inch LG HDTV. But even in all his cartoony glory the green guy was plenty threatening and Abomination just plain rocked. I got a lot of satisfaction out of watching Universal and Marvel reboot this franchise. It proves that some stories and characters are worth the trouble of experimentation and that fans will come out in droves once the powers that be get it just right. A big surprise was the collection of performances from Hurt, Roth, Tyler, and Norton. I’ve never been all that partial to Norton. His baby-face just gets in the way of accepting him in certain roles. But he is such a good actor and he brings it all to the table here.

This DVD release is fine but I do wish the studios would stop saying “3 disc set!” when that third disc is simply a digital copy. A bunch of featurettes and a commentary as well as deleted scenes round out special features and are all pretty good although the history of the Hulk character was pretty well covered on the special features of Ang Lees Hulk DVD. These featurettes are mainly about the process of rebooting and filming. It might have been nice to see a more in depth historical overview of the middling reviews the first Hulk film received and the internal conversations regarding the reboot at Marvel and Universal.