Hellboy Transcends Its Genre

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2011)

Hellboy is a supernatural superhero movie.It stars Ron Perlman, John Hurt and Selma Blair together with Jeffrey Tambor,Rupert Evans and Brian Steele.The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. It is about a demonic beast known as Hellboy who secretly works to keep the world safe from paranormal threats.It was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Hellboy starts during World War II.The Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin,who has used his occult powers to summon up a young demon from the depth of Hell to be used as the ultimate Axis weapon. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom, the founder of a top-secret organization called the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Under Broom's tutelage, the creature develops empathy and a desire to do good while his physical powers and paranormal talents are honed to a fine point. Sixty years later, the demon, now known as Hellboy, is part of an elite secret defense team alongside Liz Sherman, a beautiful young woman who can create fire with her mind, and Abe Sapian,an aquatic humanoid with the power of telepathy. Despite his many years of fighting for right, Hellboy finds himself facing his greatest challenge when the powerful Rasputin returns, determined to bring the demon back to the forces of darkness so that evil may finally rule the world.
Hellboy has wit, humor and fantastic visuals that makes it the entertaining.The viewer will be delighted by the surprisingly smart, graphically faithful live-action adaptation of the comic book series.But nevertheless,del Toro's screenplay provides somewhat a humanistic story into it that makes the movie not an exercise of special effects.Ron Perlman plays Hellboy with grit, humor, and a depth of feeling that makes the movie worth watching.
Overall,Hellboy transcends its genre through del Toro's creative imagination.