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Rating: 4/10 (3 August 2008)

This movie was soulless yet pretty. This movie was pretty yet soulless. Didn't I say that? What did I just say? Hellboy 2 left me cold. The white haired guy was all the way annoying and he kept schwinging throughout the entire film. Every time he touched his sword, moved his sword or looked at it it "schwinged". Somebody get those foley artists under control. I handle swords, axes and edged weapons all day and I can never get them to schwing--kidding--.
Positives: Great production values, art design and great SFx plus the white haired guy's hulking sidekick was done very well as a guy in a monster suit and would have been ruined had he been cgi-ed. I just could not connect with this Hellboy sequel. I sat there like a cold dish of puss.
Del Toro seems to have gone the big jumbo size Hollywood route on this one. That fresh kind of look and feel of the first Hellboy seemed to be missing in this one. Also the build up to the Golden Army scene was so anti-climatic.
That's my two cents.