Let's hear it for the 'Boy!'

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2004)

Hellboy was just a great movie. Of course, I like superhero movies. Well, here we go...
Ron Perlman portrays Hellboy. Perlman gives the character a tough guy attitude (the demon), but still shows his emotional side (the man). John Hurt does a great job playing Hellboy's father-figure, Prof. Trevor Broom. He's tough on HB, but still treats him like a son. He's the only person that HB absolutely respects. There's also great acting from Selma Blair (Liz Sherman), Jeffrey Tambor (Agt. Manning), Rupert Evans (John Myers) and David Hyde Pierce (voice of Abe Sapien). There's more than enough humor in this movie. Most of it comes from Hellboy, but everybody has their funny lines and funny scenes. The humor also helps to keep you interested. The one thing I love about this movie, besides some cool CGI, is the supernatural references made in this movie. First of all, the evil, Russian monk, Rasputin is the villain. Also, in the deleted scenes, there is a reference to the Tunguska Event (a big, mysterious explosion in Siberia). There are lots of other references, but I'm not going to list them all right now. But the one thing I liked most about the movie was the characters' desires to be human. This showed that they were more than just monster-bashing mutants and enabled the audience to better relate to them.
Good actors, some human emotions, plenty of humor, and a great action story about the supernatural. All in all, I say let's hear it for the big, red monkey.