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Marvel Animation seemed like it had the right idea at first. PG-13 rated direct-to-DVD animated films based on some iconic characters that looked to be handled in a potentially more adult style. Alas that was not to be. Their first release, ULTIMATE AVENGERS, based on the brilliant ULTIMATES series by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, had some of the elements of the original comic, but opted for barely-par animation and not a lot of decidedly “mature” subject matter. In many ways, it was no more violent or adult than your standard Saturday morning cartoon. It was colorful and bright with a lot of childish humor. Its sequel, simply titled ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2, was more mature. Not much of a step formard in animation quality, but story-wise and action-wise, definitely better. Then came THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, which was just sad. It’s a feeble attempt to cash in on the success of the IRON MAN feature film. The retelling of the story is just very poor, and the animation is even worse than the AVENGERS films. Next came DOCTOR STRANGE, which in my opinion, is the best of the Marvel Animation projects. It has terrific animation, really good dialogue and a really good retelling of this character’s origin story. Then there were the Avengers’ Kids movie, which I quite honestly skipped. Then came the HULK VS. films. HULK VS. WOLVERINE was pretty satisfying, but still a little too focused on the character of Wolverine, and honestly, haven’t we seen that dude enough? HULK VS. THOR was much, much better. This had all the makings of an epic conflict and it had epic storytelling. Really good stuff.
And now we have PLANET HULK, which is an adaptation of the new classic Greg Pak storyline in which a angry green goliath, whose fellow super-powered bretheren have deigned too dangerous for Earth, is exiled to a planet that is supposed to be a place where the Hulk can live in peace with plenty of game to hunt, lots of things to smash, and no other sentient beings to hurt. Unfortunately for
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