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The Incredible Hulk Returns

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1 star:		(5)

 

 

I ordered this and there seems to be some alternate titling going on here. The film I was sent is the 1988 film with Thor, titled "The Return of the Incredible Hulk," although IMDB lists it as "The Incredible Hulk Returns." This item's description says it's the 1977 version, also listed on IMDB as "The Return of the Incredible Hulk" or "Death in the Family." Just a word of warning to avoid confusion. The DVD arrived in good condition, so no complaints there, but the seller needs to update the description to show the proper year of release.

I Love the Hulk. I was seiked to get this on DVD. The Hulk and Thor make a good team. Well you gotta admit Don Blake and Thor didn't stay true to the Comic, However it was great nethertheless. Thor fans will know when don turns into Thor, he tape his cane on the ground and his cane becomes a hammer. Oh well they did as best they can consitering it wa the 80s the best decade ever. I think fans of the TV series will go for this in a big way. It will hold us Hulk fans over til the series finds it's way to DVD. If you can't get this from amazon you can find this and the Trial of the Incredible Hulk at Movies Unlimited. I hope many people buy this the sound is incredible, His clothes ripping in sterio is something to see.

Read the title in the picture of this DVD and read the Amazon title... What's wrong with this picture?!?
The picture they are showing you is WRONG - it's a picture of one the 3 less-than fine TV movies made AFTER the series was cancelled - the movie where David Banner/The Hulk meets Thor, and it's just not as good a story as ANY of the shows. I mean, c'mon... the series made an intelligent and successful effort to legitimize the idea of the comic character, The Hulk, and later someone comes up with him meeting a Norse God?!? So much for the legitimizing. Anyway, the "movie" that is advertised here on Amazon ISN'T THE ONE YOU GET! In Amazon's credits and description, they are advertising the SECOND TV movie that came AFTER the original pilot movie of the series, that was later broken down into a two-part episode called "Death in the Family", which was considerably better than the movie with THOR. "Death in the Family" is NOT for sale all by itself, as this ad suggests, but is ONLY available in the "Best Of..." Hulk series DVD set and in the boxed set of the first season release of the Hulk on DVD. So, BE WARNED! Amazon should really fix this blunder, so they won't get so many complaints and returns when fans buy this DVD. A word to the Hulk-wise fans.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, this is the two-part episode that became "Death in the Family" in the show's first season; one clue is that Alan J. Levi is in the credits, and another is that the year given is 1977.

If you remember scenes like those of David being attacked by a bear and stepping into quicksand, and of the Hulk spewing whiskey into a campfire and throwing a stump or post at a helicopter, they come from "Death in the Family," which probably aired first as a CBS made-for-TV movie called "The Return of the Incredible Hulk" after what became the pilot aired previously. If this hadn't aired under this name, then "The Incredible Hulk Returns" from '89 or so would probably have aired as "The Return of the Incredible Hulk."

I give it five stars because I think rewriting the comic's storyline to address the human condition was a great idea. I'd like to have seen more of the same kind of drama in the later movies of the week, but I suppose Kenneth Johnson had obligations at the time.

Well I got the order the time it said it would arrive but the DVD was not intact in the case. The result of this was that the DVD was all scratched up and I could not watch it due to it stopping and not being able to be read. The top if the DVD was also pealing off due to not being adhered properly. So all in all I am displeased with this part of my order. Don't really have the time to go do all the leg work to return the DVD so I guess I'll just take the hit on this one. Just wishing who ever packed this would have taken the time to carefully pack it.

Bill Bixby is back. Lou Ferrigno is back. The plot starts to really go somewhere, with David Banner staying around to try to cure himself of his raging green monster.
Joining him is guest star Don Blake, who summons Thor. That's right. In this movie, they're two separate characters, not alternates of the same person. You can see them both at once. Not very true to the comic, and Thor is portrayed as a primitive brawler, but fun.

This was the TV movie with Thor, not the second TV movie of the original series. But both movies were awful. You would have to be insane to like any of this campy trash.

When you play this DVD you will find that the title is in fact, The Incredible Hulk Returns, not the Return of the Incredible Hulk. It was a made for TV movie. Bill Bixby is David Banner as he was in the TV series. This story also introduces Thor, the Thunder God, and his earthly counterpart, but the introduction was badly written. Breaking into Dr Banner's lab just as he is about to cure himself from turning into the Hulk and stopping the machines just to tell Dr Banner about how he is able to summon Thor doesn't make sense. There are no extras on this bargain basement DVD, and my copy had some glitches in the encoding when it tried to play the closing credits. This DVD is mainly for the fans of the TV series as it doesn't have much else going for it.

This First Part of a triple final hulk saga keeps the film quality on the same level as the two following episodes.
As a Hulk fan I consider this film not as a masterpiece but as a good action movie. I wouldn't have written the story this way.
This episode has (almost) nothing to do with the Tv series from the seventies anymore. Only Hulk Lovers will like this.

I'll be brief. I LOVED the Hulk in all his iterations. The comic, and the original run of the series, heck I even give the cartoon on Saturday morning credit.

HOWEVER, this movie [wasnt good].

Using the Hulk to push this spin-off vehicle for Marvel's Thor was a terrible idea and totally ran against the grain of what was a decent sci-fi drama TV series, even with the token appearance of Jack McGee.

The subsequent Daredevil idea in the "Trial of The Incredible Hulk" was equally weak.

Only in the third movie, "Death of the Incredible Hulk" did they come even close to the flavor of the original series.

I would say only the most hardcore fan with blinders on could really appreciate this movie.