Peter Bart talks the Incredible Hulk and call us dweebs. Wait, what?
The dweebs may not like the effects. The star, Edward Norton, may not like the cut. And the blogosphere is steeped in bad buzz. So here’s what Universal decided to do about it Sunday night: Throw a party, invite 5,000 folks to a screening and celebrate “The Incredible Hulk” as an instant hit. Maybe even Edward Norton will show (he showed for the red carpet, which was green, but disdained the party).
I always enjoy acts of defiance, so I decided to attend. And here’s the bottom line: “The Incredible Hulk” is a boffo comic book movie with a Godzilla-meets-Frankenstein climax, a “Beauty and the Beast” subtheme and a shrewdly ironic ending that only Marvel Entertainment could pull off.
The audience roundly applauded the set-pieces of CGI mayhem, as if to tell Comic-Con-ish doubters, “Get a life.”
- from Variety