Originally posted at the DL July 2015
This feels like the equivalent of All-Star Superman. At least for the Savage Hulk (HULK SMASH, rather than the myriad different personalities that define the comics runs), this feels like the truest and most distilled story you could tell about that character. Interestingly, it's only by creating a new setting for the character and actually REMOVING one of the core elements of the books (that he's always being hunted down) that you can tell that story. Bruce Banner is defined by his baggage. But the Savage Hulk, who is generally considered as an inner child, needs a clean slate to truly shine. His defining attribute has always been the conflict between two very basic desires; to be left alone, and to have friends, so he needs a setting where he's the only aspect of the character known to the setting to really show that off.
It's just a very well put together movie. There's never a sense that bits of the story are missing or unexplained, it's very good at efficient character development, and plot developments are generally well seeded without being overbearing. Additionally as an adaptation thing, I looked up some of the details of the original comic and I think every change is for the better. A betrayal among the warbound would feel intrusive in this story I think. The rock dude whose name I legitimately forget having ties to the first Thor story was always there, but using that opening to put Beta Ray Bill in place of Silver Surfer is a good move. I'm more willing to buy his being weakened in the same way Hulk is much more easily than the POWER COSMIC doing so, for starters. Also y'know, any excuse to use Beta Ray Bill.
It's a simple story well told, and I'm having trouble thinking of anything to say about it that's not basically summarizing y'know?
Grade- 8/10
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