Better than the first, but not perfect

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2008)

I'm a massive Hulk fanboy (it's the only thing I'm a true fanboy about), so take this with a grain of salt.
First off, they skip the entire story of how Bruce became the Hulk and they sum up what should have made the first 15 min of the movie in about 30 seconds. My girlfriend was pretty lost because of this and she didn't really know how the Hulk came to be.
Second, I really wish they would have picked someone other than Liv Tyler to do Betty. She shows so little emotion during the movie that it is nearly impossible to like her, hate her, etc. The rest of the cast (Norton, Roth, Hurt) did an amazing job and I felt like the bottleneck was Tyler.
Third, the action was really nice and really entertaining, but I hated how they downplayed the Hulk's power and anger so much. There were several times when Betty was about to be hurt or die and he doesn't get much stronger. The Hulk and the Abomination are about the same strength when they start but the Hulk gets more powerful as he gets angry. You don't really see much of that and it would have added so much to the movie. Also, in the comic book the Hulk could jump a few miles at once. One time he even jumped into ORBIT. In the movie he couldn't jump to the top of a building.
All in all though, it was a good movie. The pacing was a bit fast, but it was manageable. Don't let everything I said prevent you from watching the movie. As I said, I'm a huge fan of the Hulk and I could probably find a flaw with anything related to him.