Visually Stunning!

Rating: 8/10 (22 July 2008)

I enjoyed this film so much more than the first one. Guillermo Del Toro is brilliant when it comes to special effects and creature concepts for the atmosphere of a story, which now brings me to my next point. The movie itself was great visually, but the story was something we have seen many times before; an evil warlord or entity returns from the dead or from exile to destroy humanity and it is up to the good guys to put an end to the destruction.
The movie has plenty to keep you entertained; monsters left and right, humor, and plenty of action. It surpassed the original by far because the first Hellboy didn't blow me away as this movie did. In my opinion from the first Hellboy, the villains sucked, acting was mediocre, and it lacked the action to keep one interested. However the villain (Prince Nuada) in Hellboy 2 was bad ass. And also the giant "Cloverfield" monster was cool as well, even though it is not the actual "Cloverfield" monster, but it looked like it for a second.
Anyway, I must say this is a really good summer for films adapted from comic books. I mean come on; the past few years have sucked when you look back disaster films like "Spider-Man 3" and "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer." Now we've got great movies to clean up the mess they left behind like "Iron Man", "The Incredible Hulk", "The Dark Knight", and finally we have "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army."