The film starts with Hulk waking up restrained in a ship. A
video message from Iron Man and several other big time heroes begins to play, telling
the Hulk hat he has become too dangerous and too hard to control. The heroes
tricked hulk onto a spaceship and try to send him to a uninhabited planet “where
no one can hurt you [Hulk/Banner], and there’s no one you can hurt”. Hulk manages
to escape from his restraints and in a fit of blind rage, smashes the
navigation system, sending the ship into a wormhole.
The wormhole opened up on the savage world of Sakaar, where
the Hulk crashes, weakened, and is captured to be sold as a slave. He, along
with other slaves are forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas for the amusement
of the tyrannical Red King. After each fight, the rumors that Hulk is the true prophesied
savior of the planet, the “Sakaarson”, grow. This angers the Red King, who
claimed that title when he used of his robot army to end the zombie-like
parasite Spikes that infested the planet. Eventually Hulk and his fellow slaves
earn their freedom through repeated victories, despite the Kings efforts to
kill the Hulk.
Even with the Hulk
gone, there is still support for the Hulk as the true Sakaarson, so the King
sends his most trusted warrior to kill the Hulk. There fighting is cut short by
a fresh wave of spike parasites which we learn were sent by the King to ensure
the death of Hulk and his friends, despite the fact that the spike and the
following nuke would kill thousands of innocents. This turns the King warrior
against him and after faking the Hulk’s death, they fight and eventually kill the
King. With the King gone, Hulk takes the throne and brings peace to the world
of Sakaar.
I greatly enjoyed this movie. The animation was fantastic, as
was the voice acting. The movie does a decent job following the source material,
which is one of my favorite Hulk storylines. Fingers crossed they make a film
based on the sequel storyline “World War Hulk”.