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• Actors: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Reggie Davis, Lou Ferrigno
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English, Spanish, French
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 4, 2008
• Run Time: 138 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (767 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ICM5W6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,520 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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When the Hulk gets angry, his movie gets good, so you wish he'd get angry more often. Accepting this challenge after the triumphant Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, director Ang Lee has created an ambitious film, based on the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, that succeeds as a cautionary tale about mad science and traumatized children coping with legacies of pain. That's the Hulk's problem: After accidental exposure to gamma radiation, scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) turns into the huge, green, and indestructible Hulk when provoked, and repressed childhood memories fuel his fury. Hobbled by the obligatory "origin story" (to acquaint neophytes with the character's Jekyll-and-Hyde-ish fate), there's room for little else in a sluggish film that struggles to reconcile Lee's stylistic flair (evident in his visual interpretation of comic-book technique) with the razzle-dazzle of a megabudget franchise. What's good is good (Jennifer Connelly essentially echoes her role from A Beautiful Mind, and Nick Nolte is righteously tormented as Banner's father), but the movie's schizoid intentions remain largely unclear. --Jeff Shannon

Product Description

Universal Hulk - HD-DVD
The larger-than-life Marvel SuperHero the Hulk explodes onto the big screen! Aftera freak lab accident unleashes a genetically enhanced, impossibly strong creature, a terrified world must marshal its forces to stop a being with abilities beyond imagination.

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32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars In the Opinion of the Humble..., November 16, 2003

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mljkb (I ain't tellin you, QE CAN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hulk (Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition) (DVD)

The "Hulk" is a good movie, often times great. The first half of the movie is a long, methodical character study of people under immense emotional torture, especially Bruce Banner (a pitch-perfect Eric Bana) and Betty Ross (Jennifer Connely). It is hinted that they share a dark past filled with absentee fathers and a secret military project that they might now be working on again, 30 years later. This first half or so is the reason why the "Hulk" was not well recieved among viewers and critics. People were expecting either another "Spiderman" or another "X-Men" or its sequel, filled with those films' brimming everyman qualities and light-pacing throughout, or the Hulk of the 70s t.v. show, who aided people when he had and anger spell. But director Ang Lee opted for a more tragic approach, with plenty of Freudinized angst, along the lines of repressed memories manifesting themselves in dreams. And while Lee sometimes overdoes it, his decision ultimately makes "Hulk" far more interesting than the t.v. show whose premise wore thin after a few episodes and a little more intriguing than Marvels past comic-book adaptations . However, action junkies need not fear. Things kick into high gear in the film's fast-paced and action-packed final act as Banner escapes from a military compound where they were hoping to harvest him for their own purposes. He then proceeds to tear up the california desert in a wondrously shot sequence that shows off the ILM's incredibly life-like and belivable Hulk creation and the films' unique style of editing that makes the film feel like a comic-book with skillfully juxtaposed images from various camera shots that describe various scenes that occur simaltaneously in the film.

It should be said, though, that "Hulk" is not as artistically accomplished as Director Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or perhaps other acclaimed films in his catalog. "Hulk" at times suffers from uneven pacing, some mind-numbing psycological probing and timid acting. But overall, "Hulk" stands on its own as a dark, brooding and spectacular comic-book adaption that had the balls to take the "Hulk" to places no one ever expected something like the "Hulk" to go. And while having the guts to do something daring is instantly laudable, "Hulk," even with its flaws, still succeeds surprisingsly well.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A COMIC BOOK Movie!!! (Not A TV Re-Make), February 12, 2005

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MAGE (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hulk (Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition) (DVD)

Despite the fact that I loved the CBS Television treatment of The Incredible Hulk, even as a child I referred to the show as "watered-down HULK".The Hulk in the comics was described by Stan Lee, (his creator), as: "1000 lbs of unfettered fury, the mightest mortal to ever walk the earth . . .". In the comic books, Hulk could leap 1/4 mile, run 60-80 mph, and easily use a tank as a bat to swat another tank! This is the Hulk I longed to see on the BIG Screen, and this is the Hulk that was presented! In the comics, Hulk's main enemy (at first) was the United States Army. This was also the case in the film. Although the movie was slow moving, I enjoyed it the first time I saw it. Interestingly enough, the more I watch the film, the more I increasingly enjoy it! In the comics, Hulk gets stronger the angrier he gets! In the film, he gets bigger, an interesting choice but still true to the original concept. When I saw the teaser trailer for the Hulk, (at the first showing of Spiderman), I did not even know it was for the Hulk but I instantly associated Eric Bana as Dr. Bruce Banner before the mirror close-up! I thought his performance of Banner was absolutely on point. I did not have any problems with the special-effects at all, I thought they were excellent. I did subtract one star because the ending with his father was a bit muddled. The thing that gets me about some of the criticisms is that Hulk was CGI as opposed to an actor. If you pick up ANY Hulk comic, you can plainly see that Hulk cannot be accurately portrayed without GIANT proportions! I would have been disgusted if the used an actor in green paint!!! The story of the Hulk is a Dr.Jekyl/Mr. Hyde monster tale first, and a misunderstood superhero second.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much Better Than The New Hulk, But Not For Today's Short-Attention Span Viewer, October 17, 2010

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YJM "amazon fan" (Somewhere In The South) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hulk [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Since this movie is seven years old and already has plenty of reviews written, meaning it's doubtful this one will ever be seen, I'm going to keep it very short. This movie was simply too smart for today's movie going audience. If stuff isn't blowing up every five minutes they lose interest, fast. It is no wonder to me the new Hulk was so well received compared to this one, because stuff was blowing up all the time. I think the intelligence of the new Hulk parallels today's movie goer, "Hulk Smash!" It's no wonder I haven't been to a theater to see a movie in five years. Last movie I saw in a theater was Peter Jackson's King Kong, and after enduring almost three hours of cell phones ringing, idiot teenagers behind me kicking my chair (almost caused a fist fight, I was very close to "David Smash" at one one point until they got the hint I was serious), and idiots talking through most of the movie, I told myself it would be the last movie I go to in a theater. The rudeness and complete lack of intelligence of today's movie goer knows no bounds, and therefore I have to wait a bit to see movies until they hit video, but well worth the wait to avoid sitting next to a bunch of rude strangers.

Since I don't have a short attention span and I appreciate stuff like character development, a well written script, and an emotional core to my movies, this version of the Hulk delivered in spades. The effects were also fantastic, and I thought the CGI was very convincing, better than the new Hulk with it's synthetic looking CGI, which is impressive considering the new version had six years of technology advances over this version and in my opinion had nothing to show for it. Lastly, as someone who has emotional scars from my own father, and the very troubled upbringing I had with him, this Hulk was a much more emotional experience for me than I am used to in an action/sci fi movie. I applaud what Ang Lee attempted with this version of Hulk, and how he was more interested with using the character as a catalyst for a much fuller, cerebral movie experience. Sadly since the majority of today's movie audience doesn't want to think during a movie, it was lost on many a viewer. If you value the same things I do in a film however, and you haven't seen this version due to the bad reviews, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot.