***All this week, I'll be reviewing Marvel's Avenger related films.
Today's feature: Planet Hulk***
The Incredible Hulk, ejected from Earth in a spaceship, crash-lands on a planet ruled by a tyrant, who forces him to fight in a coliseum against other powerful creatures. The Hulk reluctantly befriends the combatants on his team.
All we need to know about the hulk is explained by Ironman in the first five minutes: The madder he gets, the stronger he gets and they've shipped him off of Earth because not even he can contain his rage. After being jettisoned, Hulk awakens and smashes. Eventually ruining the set trajectory and taking him off course. Instead of bring marooned on a lifeless planet, he ends up on Skaar, a planet under the rule of the ruthless Red King. After that, the film becomes a thinly veiled Gladiator/Spartacus clone, as he is sold into slavery, forced into the arena, and becomes the hero of prophecy.
Fun Fact: The actual comic didn't interest me but after watching the movie, I'm thinking about reading it now. But movies are so much better than books and as a bonus, I finally got what I wanted in a Hulk film: No Bruce Banner, and lots of smashing. Plus, somewhere in the movie, Thor manages to make a cameo and he is shown fucking shit up as well.
Bravo.
Out of Ten? 8
Planet Hulk has all of the brutality expected from a Hulk film with none of the boring exposition. Since no one is human, it's A-Okay to destroy them and since he's fighting for his life, the brutality is justified.
Violence? Yes
Explosions? Yes
Nudity? No.
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