It's got enough good stuff.

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2004)

Hellboy is a good character. John Meyers is not. The Nazi Robot Surgery Man is awesome. Selma Blair's character is underdeveloped. The Fishman Abe-sapien rules. The hell beasts are too generic. The films looks great, the pacing is sporadic and the plot a bit too confusing. It's got some good hero-ey dialogue, it's got some real clunkers. The Hellboy/Liz story is cute and generates some genuinely warm moments the Triangle with John sucks life out of the screen like a giant leech. The zombie in the graveyard is fanatstic, the masoleum in the graveyard is goofy, and there's a plot hole you could drive the proverbial truck through.
For everything good the movie does, it does something equally offensive. It's all enjoyable, but I gotta say, it feels like a bit of a letdown, considering how close they came to something just a little better. A fun time especially if you set your brain to submissive.