Funny, entertain and that's it

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2004)

There is always a problem when I try to talk about this film, and that is the fact that I haven't read any of the Hellboy comic books so I don't know the changes made in adaptation or the real dimension of the characters that this movie surely didn't get in just one film.
Anyway, this movie was funny, entertain and that's it, the previous movie that I saw in my country was I Robot, and that one really sucks, so I think that helped giving me some disposition and the mood to watch Hellboy and actually enjoy it. In comparison Hellboy at least get some jokes right which poor Will Smith didn't.
I think Guillermo del Toro was pretty low in budget because the monsters were always the same, no more money for that modeling and computer animation, so it was require that the storyline get stuck in a constant repetition of a fight scene with the same Hellboy and the same resurrected fella in different locations.
The characters were enjoyable, I think Ron Perlman is a wasted actor that actually has made something with The city of Lost Children and Cronos, the last one with Guillermo. Selma Blair and everyone else was plain good.
All the problems in this movie really reside in the plot holes, especially near the end, Hellboy thriumps in a way too absurd and too easy for us to care and applaud him, despite that I think anyone has a standart possibility to be entertain and not end angry and mislead like I felt with that I Robot turkey.