An entertaining, funny dark film

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2011)

I was not familiar with Hellboy before watching this film. I reckon I knew he came from comic books, but that was all about it. I found this film to be quite good, a nice mixture of action, humor and darkness with excellent special effects. I just re-watch it and it definitely reassured the fact that this is infinitely better than the sequel, which lost all sense of gloom and simply repeated bad jokes and added non Hellboy related stuff (elves, etc). It's hard to see why people would consider Hellboy worse than Hellboy 2 but, then again, you just have to look at the world today to realize how messed up common sense and opinions are. That's my rant for today. Alas, a very watchable film if you are into sci-fi/fantasy/action. Also recommended for the common folk who enjoys his/her popcorn.