Sunday, July 6, 2008

monster flick

Rampage your way to NYC



Face to face with the Hulk


Who wants another Hulk smash?


Hulk rise up from the ground


The face of Abomination


Edward Norton is the gamma-radiated Bruce Banner who becomes Hulk when he gets angry.


General Ross, Betty’s mad father who wanted to manipulate the Hulk
A tearjerker scene of Betty and Bruce

Liv Tyler plays the lovely Dr. Elizabeth “Betty” Ross.


Bruce Banner is searching for a cure…


Who wants another Hulk smash?

Incredible Hulk: incredibly blazing Kuris film review

The Hulk is incredible this time around. Marvel Studio's latest superhero film franchise, The Incredible Hulk is not just rocking the movie sales around the world but also came back bigger and awesome than ever. With a new powerstar cast led by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner/Hulk and his love interest Betty Ross portrayed by Liv Tyler, the latest superpowered flick appeals to all movie lovers with its unique storytelling, plot and special effects that truly makes this film another Hollywood classic. The Hulk is an iconic superhero created by Stan Lee in 1960s who posses infinite strength and invincibility. It all started when the young scientist Bruce Banner was exposed to gamma radiation. His anger triggers the Hulk, a giant green monster goliath with the power of a greek god that emerged and transform his body if he has no temper control.

At first, we thought that this would be another boring film since it deviates and makes a new storyline away from Eric Bana's Hulk film directed by Chinese mega-director Ang Lee. But it's better than we exprected. The new Hulk film looks stronger, appealing and dynamic compare to the previous film. What makes the previous Hulk film less appealling is the fact that Ang Lee's direction focused more on the drama and emotional side of Bruce Banner. The special effects factor and the explosive action were less, if there was it featured less involvement of the main cast and all we've seen is the 3D Hulk does all the rampage. This time around, the film is promising with a far more complicated fighting and escapade scenes executed by Edward Norton. The Hulk is even more meaner, edger and raging in its innovative 3D animated form. We've seen lots of detailed texture and emotions in the 3D Hulk in contrast to the previous film. He even unleashed some of his "very-comic" traditional moves like "Hulk smash" and legendary high jump from building to another building.

In terms of romance and tragedy, this film is a tearjerker when it showed the deep relationship of Betty and Bruce separated by life's cirmcumstances. They were torn apart from each other because of the tragic accident that happened in the past which led Bruce to run away, hide from the outside world and left the woman he loved. Their fate was intertwined once again when Bruce returned to America hoping to find a cure for his uncontrolled second personality which is the Hulk triggered hoevery time he gets angry.

But it led to another tragedy when the future-Hulk villain who's a wise scientist got hold of Bruce gamma-radiated blood and planned to used it in creating more Hulks. Another important villian that emerged as the green goliath's fierce nemesis was Abomination, a carbon copy of Hulk who possesed the same superstrength with sharp bones and spines. At first, General Ross, Betty's father thought of using the Hulk as his secret weapon but Bruce objected his plan that led to his escape and hide in Central America. In his struggle to capture Bruce, he wanted to make another Hulk by experimentating one of his fierciest soldiers using gamma chemicals who accidentally became Abomination. Abomination became obsessed in destroying Hulk that later turned him insane. He rampaged New York City right after his transformation into Abomination and Bruce had no choice but to fight him. Their battle created earth-shaking effects and tested the Hulk's real power. In the end, the Hulk won and saved Betty Ross with his father, General Ross from the fangs of death.

After Hulk saved the city, he decided to hide again. This time he wanted to stay away for a while not to find a cure or remove the Hulk from his body but to control it. And he somehow succeeded in fulfilling it, an indication that this is not yet the last time we will see the green goliath in the movies. There will be more... of Hulk and his fellow Avengers as indicated by Robert Downey, Jr, the latest Hollywood hunk who played Iron Man and brought the film to the top of the blockbuster chart this year.


International reviews:

“A solid superhero fantasy that gains added depth from a strong cast”

Vicki Roach, Daily Telegraph (Australia)

“I'm still not too enthusiastic about the character, but the film is fast-paced, well-acted, and captures that elusive 'comic book feel.”

Michael Dance, The Cinema Source

“While the CGI battles between The Hulk and Abomination are expectedly clunky, there are enough fun references and strongly crafted scenes to mark The Incredible Hulk as a highly enjoyable, if not quite exceptional, comic book adaptation”

Erin Free, FILMNK (Australia)


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh good views on hulk. like it

Anonymous said...

where did you get the comments below...rotten tomatoes.com? they give good reviews

Anonymous said...

still showing at sm city and robinson?

Kuris Animation Unlimited, Inc. said...

somebody commented earlier that this post is waste of time coz it was copy-pasted post from other website. Hello, I wrote this stuff after we watched the film at Rob. so please stop saying i am not capable of writing such stuff. yes, the comments below were taken from rotten tomatoes.com...these are the copy-pasted stuff not the first article. OK.

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