This was a surprise: I can't remember having ever seen a blockbuster movie whose plot is such a mess. Perhaps the problem stems from the rather nihilist nature of the whole concept. With most comic book characters such as Batman or the X-Men, you have a fairly conventional drive for the plot by giving the hero a foe who has to be defeated. The Hulk, however, gets angry and smashes stuff until he stops being angry. The movie doesn't quite manage to keep this from being boring; after the fight in the desert, the movie felt like it should have been over, but it wasn't. Battles are hard to follow -- in the fight with the dogs, I thought each dog was killed about three times -- and while all the inserts and splitscreens look cool and add a sense of speed, of many things happening at once, they're ultimately just window dressing.
The CGI Hulk looks much better than I expected. Danny Elfman's music sounds just like the music for "Spiderman", "Men in Black", and all the other summer blockbuster movies he's been scoring, a sound that's rousing but forgettable. There may have been an influence from Tan Dun's "Crouching Tiger" soundtrack, resulting in lots of low thumping percussion, but that could be my imagination.
So, overall... enh. It won't stick in my memory very long, and won't inspire any enthusiasm for another viewing.
Back at home, I watched "Dancer in the Dark" on DVD. The musical numbers are great fun, but the scenes between songs are filmed in a slow pause-filled verité style that is painfully dull. Mercifully my DVD player will show subtitles even in fast-forward mode, so I just read most of the dialogue, saving both time and sanity.