Sure, Nick Nolte is a trip as the Hulk's disheveled, wild-haired, mad-scientist father, and yeah, the Hulk's battle with Daddy's giant mutant dogs is kind of cool, and natch, Ang Lee jazzes everything up with clever techniques, for example, he frequently divides the screen into panels, each with its own image, thus making the screen look like a page from a comic book, and whenever the action slows down, he jacks up the volume on Danny Elfman's driving, manic music so we'll feel excited anyway, but it's hard to swallow the pretentiousness of a director who says, "I do not know how to make a comic book.  I know how to make a Greek tragedy," and intelligent moviegoers who want to see actor Eric Bana go through some truly interesting mood swings should skip this pseudo-psychological paint-by-the-numbers Hollywood superhero action flick and should instead check out Bana's chilling, horrific, weirdly funny, over-the-top performance in the Australian hit CHOPPER.

The Incredible Hulk
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