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Okay let’s try and get a few more stragglers out of the way before another couple of longer reviews from today.

Again, I can certainly say I liked this but little more. Unlike a lot of people, this didn’t really have the easiest ride following my recent revisit to Ang Lee’s version which I found eons better than I did the first time around. Though Edward Norton was a great starting point, this new Hulk had a lot to live up to. Fortunately, it pretty much delivers. The weighty artsiness of Ang Lee’s vision is here replaced with a Bourne -ish intelligent chase, and the angry green monster is just the kind of visual effects extravaganza you’d expect.

For me, there’s one moment in it that probably makes me biased and that’s the inclusion of the “Lonely Man” piano theme from the TV series … and I can’t deny getting some kind of inexplicable teenage boy joy from “Hulk smash!” reminiscent of my similarly bewildering reaction to Optimus Prime in last year’s Transformers ... quite honestly I giggled and clapped like a toddler on that line … seriously lol.

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