A big disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (28 August 2008)

Having really enjoyed the original I was really looking forward to Hellboy II. But I have to say I was very disappointed. Gone were all the clever touches from the original like the indestructible demons and despicable baddies and were simply replaced by fancy but sterile fight sequences and rip-offs from successful film franchises. The troll market was obviously taken straight from Harry Potter's Diagonal Alley, there were also strong inferences taken from The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix and the bad guy was a straight rip-off from Stargate Atlantis' Wraith baddies. So from an original which was fresh and original we get a sequel which is a one-paced run of the mill actioner, made up pastiches pinched from other people's work which just never really got going.