My colleagues have already shared their thoughts and opinions so I’ll avoid direct comparison to the 2003 version.

The Incredible Hulk is a fine summer movie in that it has some nice action sequences, a decent story, but it is generally pretty generic and not particularly memorable. Edward Norton does a nice job as Bruce Banner, but I feel like putting him in a summer super hero movie is kind of a waste of his talents. The actions and chases scenes work ok for your standard summer action movie, though I thought the chase scenes with Bruce Banner were more interesting than watching CGI Hulk smashing things. I appreciated that they heavily condensed the origin story but they still chose to include a variety of scenes that feel awkward: Michael K. William’s (The Wire) has a cameo so brief I’m not really sure why it was included. Stan Lee’s appearance is distracting and I’m starting to get tired of the requirement that he appear in all of the Marvel movies especially in that it no longer seems enough to leave him in the background of a crowd shot. Robert Downey Jr. makes a brief appearance as Tony Stark that I think would have been better placed after the credits as the current location of the scene feels awkward at best.

Unfortunately I’m just not as interested in the Hulk as I am in say Batman or Spiderman. I thought Iron Man really worked well in that I had no prior interest in Iron Man but was inspired to seek out the comics after seeing the movie. (Note that Jeremy has told me there isn’t any great collection of Iron Man comics he can recommend and the new Ultimate Iron Man is somewhat disappointing. Spoiler: They made Ultimate Iron Man a mutant.)

In short, the Incredible Hulk is an ok movie but I could have just as soon waited to see it on DVD.