10 Most Forgettable Superhero Movies Since 2000

10. Hulk

Say what you like about 2008's The Incredible Hulk, but it had the good sense to eschew the psychobabble of the green guy’s first big screen outing. Instead of watching Hulk smash, we get endless flashbacks to Bruce Banner’s (Eric Bana) messed-up childhood, which weighs the whole movie down.

The film takes too long for Banner to turn green, then once he does it stops dead again while the filmmakers flail around trying to find things for him to do. Eventually, a nemesis in the form of Banner’s father appears, but it’s too little too late in an overlong movie.

Their climactic encounter has to be seen to be believed, though, because it seems to have been imported from the spin-off video game, with Hulk bouncing around like his gaming equivalent. Completely lacking in thrills, the sequence is a textbook example of how not to make a superhero movie. Director Ang Lee gave up the ghost and returned to making dramas, winning Best Director for Brokeback Mountain in 2005.