Hellboy is back and burns even brighter this go around.

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2008)

This sequel is an improvement to the first movie, both were good this one better. Of course, for me the main factor in it being better is that there is such a variety of monsters to look at this time. In the previous movie basically all the monsters Hellboy fought were essentially the same creature. Even the last monster he faced was just a bigger version of said creatures. Here you have a ton as this movie looks a bit like Pan's Labyrinth in the underground troll market. Ron Pearlman is still aces as Hellboy, I liked Liz better in this one and Abe Saphien plays a much bigger role as well and is fleshed out a bit more. They take away the Norton character which is fine as they replace him with someone who lets just say fits the team better. The story has a prince elf (at least I think he is an elf) who has been in self exile over the many years searching out pieces of a golden crown so he can gain control of the legendary golden army and once again wage a war on humans. There is an excellent scene involving creatures called tooth fairy's and then Hellboy gets the exposure he has always yearned for. The movie then switches to them trying to find the troll underground market where there is more action as a very big beastie is unleashed to kill Hellboy and then a humorous scene of Hellboy and Abe drinking beer. Then a rousing conclusion as we have a rare comic book movie that has a very good final battle. The humor is good, the action is good most of the movie is very good. I will say the thing between the brother and sister elves that occurred was a bit to telegraphed, however other than that this movie had very few flaws for me.