much a-latex-do about nothing

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2004)

I know some Hellboy-Comic books, I like Ron Perlman, so what better than to watch this movie, I thought. Well, I was wrong - after I got some hope after the opening scene somehow the story developed boring beyond belief, the Characters were more than linear, I would like to call them punctual (only highlight of the movie was the scene where hellboy observes his girlfriend and the new agent with a kid on the roof of a house, which was the only scene in the whole film that caught the spirit of the comic-books). The cast was awful (have no better word for it)- all actors seemed to have taken sleeping pills, Ron Perlman's acting was buried under ten pounds of Latex on the face (only highlight was Jeffrey Tambor, who played I think for his tenth film the same spleenish but likable character), the bad guys were even more boring than the good guys. I think the whole film suffered tremendously from a too short character introduction and development (good examples for character developing scenes are spiderman 2 and the coffee break with Ocatavius and his wife, or the scene with Magneto as a kid in the concentration camps).
To summarise: this film could have been better if someone would have taken the time to write a solid script, it isn't enough for comic-book-based films to hasten through the character introduction and background story, just to be able to show some special effects and come to a somehow wrong timed and wrong placed happy end.
so: 3 out of 10 tubs of red latex for this film