Even the special effects stink

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2009)

If this version of the Incredible Hulk was done in the fashion of an animated cartoon perhaps I would have liked it better. Graphic artists really know how to draw monsters.
Here the monsters look like some kind of monster suit a kid might get for Halloween. They are so obviously artificial! The special effects of the monsters throwing cars about also seem ridiculously artificial. Am I being picky expecting a comic book character to appear realistic? Well, they did it in the original TV series. They used a simple technique. Instead of costumes (or whatever) the TV series used super-sized Lou Ferrigno as the hulk, just painting his skin green. But a Ferrigno sized hulk apparently was too small for the makers of this film.
In the interests of full disclosure, I have to admit I am not a big fan of action films. There are some I liked, including about everything by Quentin Tarentino. I liked Superman and Batman films, but got bored by too many sequels. But the main reason I wanted to see the Incredible Hulk was to see how the they handled the transformation, expecting something outstanding what with all the technology advances made in the past decade.