“You’ve turned every scientific advance into a weapon,” says Vincent Prince in Scream and Scream Again—which is also the anti-military message in The Incredible Hulk. Get past that, and the Hulk reboot is fairly great as a comic-book movie. There are certainly enough neat touches for comic fans. The biggest flaws are Liv Tyler’s gamma-irradiated lips and the casting of Ty Burrell as an effeminate Dr. Leonard Samson. Burrell was also cast as a heterosexual in 2004’s Dawn of the Dead. That was the least believable thing about that movie. Maybe he likes girls, but Burrell sure can’t convey that quality on the screen.

You can skip The Happening, though. It’s a particularly dopey eco-disaster film that plays more like a bad ’70s TV-movie.

Our vacation this weekend will be a working one, so we’re going to cover ourselves on deadlines. The next posting won’t be until Thursday, June 19th. We should be taking that day off, too, so don’t go complaining.

 

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