 |
Available on DVD! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned) |
|
Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!
|
|
|
 |
|
For the last 2 years, David Banner (Bill Bixby) has worked at a top
research institute, developinbg something called the Transponder.
But of course, Banner had to work under an assumed identity, because he is
wanted for a murder he didn't commit, and he even has a darker secret:
Every time he gets angry, he turns into a green monster called the Hulk
(Lou Ferrigno). But for these last two years, Banner has kept his alter
ego under check, and working on the Transponder, he even thinks he might
have found a cure for his condition, which he wants to test on himself,
when ... Donald Blake (Steve Levitt) breaks into Banner's high security
lab, but not with criminal intentions, but just to pay him a friendly
visit (?). You see, Banner was Blake's professor at Harvard years back,
and now Blake has a problem he wants his professor to solve for him: Blake
has found the hammer of Thor on an expedition to the North Pole, and now
every time he grabs the hammer and shouts "Odin", ancient Norse
warrior Thor (Eric Allan Kramer) appears and wants to drink beer and
clobber some bad guys - apparently it hasn't appeared to Blake that the
solution to that problem would just be not to grab the hammer and shout
"Odin" (something that isn't something normal people do on a
regular basis anyways, is it?), but oh well. Anyways, Banner does not
believe Blake, so Blake summons Thor, who immediately picks on Banner, who
turns into the Hulk, and it's clobbering time ... the fights ends in a tie
though, and when the police shows up, both the Hulk and Thor take off. Enter
some criminals led by LeBeau (Tim Thomerson) and his right-hand man Fouche
(Charles Napier), who desperately want to steal the Transponder, but they
are chased away by the Hulk. So they decide to kidnap Banner's girlfriend
(Lee Purcell) and try to force Banner to give up the machine that way.
Banner does want to save his girlfriend of course, but he knows the
Transponder can be a powerful weapon in the wrong hands, so he destroys
the core of the machine for good, then calls upon Blake and Thor to help
him save his girl - which of course can't be done without him turning into
the Hulk again. Of coujrse, in the end all the baddies get their just
desserts and the girl is saved, but once again Banner's cover is blown,
and he has to leave the woman he loves and wander the country some more. Basically
this is just stanbdard TV-fare, a predictable Hulk-story
based on an ill-conceived script that puts too much emphasis on its set-up
to sustain tension telling its feeble story, carried by a very bland
directorial effort. However, the TV-movie has one saving grace: Eric Allan
Kramer as The Mighty Thor. True, The Mighty Thor
is one of the more ridiculous characters of the Marvel-pantheon of
superheroes, and initially one is led to believe that this film makes the
mistake to follow the character's depiction in the comics too closely -
but it soon becomes clear that Kramer plays Thor for laughs,
which might be the only way to bring the character across on screen
anyways - and Kramer is really funny, too, milking all his scenes for
maximum comedy. And you know what, he makes the whole thing pretty
watchable, sure, watchable in a silly sort of way, but watchable still.
Too bad he was never called back in the role ...
|
amazon.de
eThaiCD.com
find The Incredible Hulk Returns at adultvideouniverse.com
