The Ultimate Guillermo Del Toro Experience!!!

Rating: 10/10 (13 July 2008)

This Film Had Everything Possible Known To The Fantasy Genre And More. The Story Was Superb and Heart Braking. The Wonderful Ron Perlman Did an Excellent Job as Big Red, along with his fishy partner Abe Sapien(played by the wonderful doug jones), the sexy pyro babe liz sherman(Selma blair), and the new comer Johann Kraus(voiced by the hilarious Seth Mcfarlane).
The Film Was ten times bigger than the first one, and the creatures were even more sophisticated, including the menacing Mr. Wink who was wonderfully made and performed, all of the creatures in the troll market were also hilariously created but the most impressive was the angel of death who was also played by doug jones. The detail on the character was beyond imagination and its voice was frightening and ghoulish, it was one impressive presentation.
Now even though allot of the characters in the film were puppets, there were several sequences that included an array of CG character, the golden Army to be precise. The sequence alone was epic! The twist was amazing and it shows the team working as one. Now one sequence that many thought would be the final battle was the fight between HB and the elemental god. That scene was in the middle of the film and it scale was huge. That scene served as just another mini boss fight but its scale was immense. The big baby gun was also a fun add on to hellboy's arsenal.
The writing was also a big plus, hellboy still has his puns and his funny quotes but the big surprise was abe's one liners that were just gut busting. there are so many things in this film that you might have to watch it twice to fully take in all of the story and character development.
Overall this film is probably the best comic book film. and it deserves high praise to the master himself Mr. Del Toro!!!!
10/10