Planet HULK may be based on an acclaimed comic book run, but something was clearly lost in translation. Flatly animated, the storyline plays like a one-note Gladiator. HULK is a tough character to base an entire animated movie around unless the supporting characters are memorable and the storyline compelling and Planet HULK just doesn’t get the job done. It’s nowhere near as good as the Ultimate Avengers movies and closer to their boring animated Iron Man movie (which was a true disaster, complete with new-age mysticism hooey and a boring Tony Stark arc).
Planet HULK (what a goofy title) starts with members of the Avengers exiling the dangerous HULK into outer space to live a solitary existence, but things don’t go as planned. HULK goes nuts during his exile flight and crash lands on a planet named Sakaar (kind of a poor man’s intergalactic Rome), and ruled by a bland villain named The Red King. HULK is sold into slavery and bonds slowly with his fellow gladiators in a plot to gain their freedom and free the peoples of Sakaar. Some of the animated movie looks just fine in stills and the art is colorful, but the animation is mediocre at best. It has a cheap, Saturday morning feel, and that just won’t do in the age of Ponyo and The Princess and the Frog. The 2-disc set has a decent making of featurette but the rest of the extras feel like advertising for upcoming releases along with a few boring music videos. Let’s hope Marvel’s animated Thor movie is a lot better than Planet HULK.
Full of action, yet emotionally and visually distant, Planet HULK is a real disappointment. Fans of Marvel Comics are better off with the ultra-violent HULK Vs. DVD or the Ultimate Avengers movies. Planet HULK is for hardcore HULK fans only.
Grade: C-
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Magnus782
Feb 15, 2010 -
The film itself is worth checking out if you’re a Marvel fan. An aspect about the film that annoyed me the most is the fact we never saw Hulk in his Bruce Banner form…..a major and dumb plothole.
Bill Helzer
Apr 3, 2010 -
Hulk this thor that why don’t you put down those stupid dvd’s ment for children Except maybe superman Doomsday and go back to your root’s 80’s through early 1990’s comic books when the story line’s were meant for every day people with every day problems Murder theft rape sex child abuse drug addiction funerals not to mention the fantasy end in outer space the computers make your crap comics today not like in the late 80’s Where they Actually had to draw HOW LONG ON A DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COMPUTER DOES IT TAKE TO DRAW 1 PAGE COMPARED TO DRAWING BACKROUND AND 1 to Ten Characters. You All worship them and you now it. WAKE UP Marvel was cool and still somewhat is they just made the mistake of using foil prism metalic And holograph issues which are cool but go to a comic book store they ask 20 dollars for it when cover is 1-2 dollars i’d a soon wipe my but with then burn. Do us all and yourselves a favor stick to strictly movies of marvel. quit watching crap on saturdays morning’s. You know you do or why would you be complaning about it on Animated Movie’s go get yourself A nerd chick because the hot ones won’t have you HA HA. Look it’s time to grow up I liked the ninty spider-man, Superman and x-men plus the Silver Surfer But when you start in on almost every Mag hero from Marvel the sad thing is your starting to make me look cool and I wear glasses. All seriousness you live sad lives go to action films comedy’s horror flics even chick flics for your chick And maybe people will stop laughing Seriuosly I’m just trying to help