Consummate wrestling showman and lousy, racist human being Hulk Hogan died on July 24, 2025. In 1991 he made the movie Suburban Commando which has a few skateboarding scenes in it and features a skateboard in the poster art. The Hulk starred as an intergalactic warrior who had to take some down time on earth. He has a run in with kids on skateboards and he Wilsons it pretty comically. Somehow he becomes an expert skateboarder at some point in the plot after acquiring a 6 wheel battle skateboard. I’ve only seen a few clips from the movie so I don’t know how prominently it features, but the stunts are over the top, with lots of cut scenes showing a double doing crazy flips in the air, and shots from the knees down only. This movie seems like it would fall into he “so-bad-it’s-good” category. Notice the generic Powell Peralta board in the stills.
Here’s the movie poster with the Hulk balancing a skateboarder like he’s spinning a basketball. Somehow this movie also featured Shelley Duvall and Christopher Lloyd!
Here are some stills from the movie. I made screen caps when I found out the skateboarding scenes were in there about a year ago. I had intended to buy a cheap DVD copy, but now that he has died, there are people out there trying to sell them for $50-$200.
The DVD copies feature a slightly different graphic. There were no high res versions available online except for the Czech version found here.
The Japanese version inexplicably erased the skateboard from the poster. Other promotional items do feature the least interesting skateboard aspect which appears to be a still publicity shot from an angle not in the movie. That center poster does show the Hulk mid-Willson in the upper left hand corner.
Lastly, an alternate movie poster spotted on eBay that appears to be potentially homemade. It does match any of the styling from anything else.
Official Trailer for Suburban Commando:
A short clip with one of the skateboarding scenes.
More skateboarding clips, unfortunately of a very poor quality.
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