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starring: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvindirected by: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Patrick Boyriven, Mark A. Burley, Barry Crane
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304288511
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304288514
Label: Good Times Home Video
Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Good Times Home Video
Release Date: November 07, 1996
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 42535
Studio: Good Times Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1978
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Amazon.com:
Writer, producer, and director Kenneth Johnson has completely reworked the story of Dr. Banner and his mean, green alter ego, but this new rendition works quite well in its TV format. After failing to save his wife from a burning car wreck, David Banner obsessively delves into research exploring rare adrenaline surges that give people superhuman strength in extraordinary situations. Discovering that the secret lies in the surge of gamma rays from sunspots, Banner purposely absorbs a massive dose of gamma radiation in his lab to try to improve his strength. The unanticipated result? You know--when he gets mad, he transforms into the giant green dude known as the Hulk. Unlike the subsequent TV series, this original film focuses on Banner's anger and despair over losing his wife rather than his being an unlikely hero on the run. It provides for many compelling moments as he seeks to comprehend his confusing metamorphosis, and as the Hulk becomes a threat to the unspoken romance between him and his supportive colleague and confidant, Dr. Elaina Marks. The late Bill Bixby delivers a warm, sympathetic performance as the tortured Dr. Banner, Susan Sullivan is believable as the brave, level-headed Dr. Marks, and Jack Colvin provides the sleaze factor as pesky tabloid reporter Jack McGee. Forgiving its '70s look and vibe, The Incredible Hulk is a smart comic-book adaptation that lets its protagonist do some soul-searching rather than provide a one-dimensional caricature. Kudos to Joseph Harnell's score, which strongly enhances the film's emotional content. --Bryan Reesman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Give it 2 thumbs up 4 the pilot movie
I actually loved the show and the TV pilot that once aired on CBS and soon got back to TV like on SCI-FI when I 1st catch the premiere of the back-to-back episodes. Yep this is not something to disappoint, it's a great movie that shows a real side of Bruce Banner (whom Stan Lee, the founder of Marvel Comics) changed to David 'cuz Bruce was too homosexual. Reason why they did that 'cuz of the reason of the name. So they add it along the TV series from '78 until it's demise in 1982. So sad Bill Bixby ... Read More
Rating: - The Hulk gets real
The Incredible Hulk was made more realin this movie and the subsequent series. The loss Banner felt and theguilt he felt from his wife's deathmade him do what any man would want to do, except for the disastrousresults. I grew up watching the Hulkat first because I liked the color green, and thought it was cool thatthe Hulk was big and strong. Therewas, however, more realism with themovies and the show. It showed us the pain and anger that Banner feltnot only in the death he wasn't ableto prevent, but ... Read More
Rating:  - Great adaption of a comic book character
I was fortunate enough to catch this on the SCI-FI channel, & its following episodes, Kenneth Johnson did a graet job giving the Hulk much depth as well as David Banner & at times you actually feel for his unfortunate situation, an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, suffers a tragedy(loss of his wife in a car accident which left him powerless to do anything about) as a scientist he discovers that others have had similar experiences, but was able to save their loved ones, & he begins a ... Read More
Rating: - Comic Book Geeks Beware!
Did I say Geeks, I meant readers. Hey I dig the comics like the next guy, but this is a movie. You can let go and stop imagining an unreal comic universe and pick up this movie and watch a great adaptation with more substance than 99% of any issue ever made. Banner(David, Bruce, whatever!) is beautifully played by the late Bill Bixby in what many consider his finest work.
There is no need to go into the story because most know it. So please put the comic and candybar down, and order this ... Read More
Rating:  - Good, but not for the comic book readers
A good movie, but readers of the Incredible Hulk might be disappointed, as the movie is loosely based on the comic (I am a reader myself, and for one thing, the Hulks alter-ego is named BRUCE Banner (actually, Dr Robert Bruce Banner, to be exact), not David Banner)
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