One Hell of a Movie

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2008)

Visually stunning, a much more intricate story than the original one, several truly laugh-out-loud funny scenes. Altogether an excellent movie! I enjoyed it way more than the first Hellboy. Comparisons to Pan's Labyrinth can be made, with a few similar characters and visual effects. Absolutely worth seeing! The CG scenes themselves were gorgeous too. The movie also was much more character driven with that enjoyable Hellboy humor, Hellboy/Liz/Abe Sapien love life, also nice that I never got the feeling it was being shoved down my throat. No lack of action here either. From Hellboy's leaping punches to an Elf Prince's furious attacks, there was plenty of eye candy to go around. My only complaint would be that within the first few minutes of the film I had this awful feeling that it reminded me very much of Men in Black, but that soon passed.