Please don't make the mistake of thinking that "Hulk Vs. Wolverine" is appropriate for all ages.  That said, this is the Wolverine I remember in the 80s, complete with his classic catchphrase "I'm the best at what I do, but what I do isn't very nice."  That line, spoken at the top of the show, is a message from the production that this is a show for the fans.  HvW is a dust up show, a half-hour of super-people giving and receiving beat-downs.  There is blood, but not  the buckets one would expect from a show where four of its main combatants use bladed weapons.

The story is simple: The Hulk crosses the border into Canada and the government sends Wolverine to stop him.  Multiple beat-downs ensue.  We know who these guys are, so there's really no need to waste time on back story.  From Hulk's first punch, we're on a cringe-inducing, slash-happy ride.  For the half-hour, we are treated to an escalation of violence that includes Weapon X members - Sabretooth, Omega Red, Lady Deathstrike and...oh yeah...Deadpool.  This Deadpool deserves his own feature.  At about 15 minutes, I can see how the production shoehorns elements of the upcoming Wolverine movie into the plot.  It is unnecessary and borders on the distracting, but it is ultimately handled well.  I was disappointed not to hear the line, but it hardly needs spoken: "no quarter was asked, no quarter was granted."  In the end, the fight is over and so is the show.  No one had to save the world or stop the countdown clock from reaching zero...just good old fashioned beat-downs.

"Hulk versus THOR" on the other hand is clearly one of those stories designed to wake popular attention to a character everyone knows on sight, but very little about.  Considering Marvel will be introducing Thor to theaters in the next year or so, packaging The God of Thunder with many of his supporting characters into a story involving the Hulk was savvy marketing.  I've never been a big fan of Thor in a modern context.   I don't know why, but the Kirby-inspired classic doesn't seem to work for me, particularly when there are so many supremely-powered beings on the Avengers these days..  ULTIMATE Thor seems to work very well.  But this isn't that Thor.  Well, voiced and well paced, this isn't a simple beat down story.  Loki has captured Bruce Banner and wants to use The Hulk in an attempt to conquer Odinsville...or Odinsheim or whatever town Odin lives in because, as we all know from our Bulfinch, Odin has to take a nap in a hyperbolic chamber every so often, thus leaving Asgard defenseless against the countless orcs, trolls, tax collectors and other monsters of the Norse underworld... defenseless except for the hundreds of gods and goddesses who play dungeon seige every weekend for real the way we play pick up games of football in the back yard. When Odin takes his nap time, everybody who is anybody in Odinsville picks up a big weapon and goes to work.

Loki, being Loki, offers us his usual bad posture in a big black throne as he unveils his plot to a frightened Banner chained to the ceiling...then Enchantress does some hocus-pocus to split Banner from The Hulk and allows Loki to drive Hulk like a rental truck through most of Asgard.  The story is fun, but save for the merciless beat-down Hulk delivers to Thor at one point, it stinks of Norweigian soap operas overdubbed by actors from Shakespearian community theater.    Everything happens because the plot SAYS it has to happen.  Odin MUST take a nap, therefore the kingdom comes under seige.  And it MUST be this way because if the sides DON'T fight, it triggers Ragnarok.  Yeah, you guys are gods, right?  When Odin the All-Powerful All-Father wakes up, you think you might want to suggest he work on a plan to break that cycle?

Hulk and the gods blow a lot of stuff up in this one, but the Hammer-on-fist action is weighed down by the by-the-numbers tour of Asgard.  It is still worth a look, especially since it's part of the same disk set that contains the worthwhile Wolverine episode.