Entertaining, If Nothing Else

Rating: 6/10 (29 June 2006)

This is a pretty good cartoon-character movie. It's entertaining because of two main things: 1 - good dialog by the lead character, likeably portrayed by Ron Perlman and, 2 - the violence is not overdone, wearing you out and dominating the film.
It looked like the latter was going to be the case early on but the film calms down and the climactic scene is not overdone as it is on always every modern-day action film.
I was sorry to hear some blasphemes in here, no place for that in a comic-book hero film geared to attract a young audience. I'm not familiar with this comic book here, "Hellboy," but I was surprised he looks like so many alien-type monsters of today on screen, nothing original. They could have made him look different, unless that's how he looks in print.
All in all, despite what may sound like a critical review, the movie was entertaining and even had some nice touches of humor. It's another example of good, mindless entertainment for two hours. I would like to see the extended version and see if that's better.