Spoilers Ahead! Planet Hulk

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”.