"World, here I come!"

Rating: 7/10 (26 December 2018)

I think I liked this movie better than the original. It had better character development and I like how some of the ancillary characters got their share of screen time to complement Hellboy (Ron Perlman) in his quest to defeat Prince Nuada Silverlance and his Golden Army. The only one I didn't care for was Johann Klauss (James Dodd); somehow he rubbed me the wrong way, which is what an ectoplasmic researcher can do sometimes. Nuada himself came across as something of a Johnny or Edgar Winter knock-off (in their younger days), and made for a formidable foe for Hellboy and the gang. Sometimes it's the little things that intrigue me in a film, and in this one, Hellboy swigs a fair share of Tecate Beer in any number of scenes, and I had to wonder what impact it had on sales after the release of the picture. Even if minimal, at least it got him and Abe Sapien/Fishstick (Doug Jones) singing a Barry Manilow song from way back. As a comic book super-hero, Hellboy is a pretty cool character, and the film has enough humor amid the chaos to make it worth your while.