More depth, cooler characters, better imagination - HELLBOY 2

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2008)

When I had watched the first "Hellboy" movie in 2004, I had watched it without having read the comic book series first and was curious to see how these interesting characters would come into play on film. Had I read the comics books I would have had a better understanding towards the characters and the story. Never the less, just like any other movie, it should be watched without any prejudice, distortion, or comparison to the books or any other film. The movie, unfortunately, had fallen flat and I will not even begin to explain the many disappointing factors that had made the film not enjoyable.
Now again, I had given "Hellboy 2" a chance without being bias or having the need to compare it with the first one and once again without having the knowledge from the comics. Compared to the first movie, it will blow it out of the water and as a stand alone, it is a phenomenal, well crafted movie.
They gave more depth to the characters by giving them personalities with needs and flaws not just by looking cool with special powers, including the main villain which is my favorite. All the new characters were well design with high production value which reminded me of the great works of the Jim Henson studio. From a conceptually point of view the character designs were well worked into the story to add more of a contrast between the human world and the world of "Hellboy".
It was also pretty obvious that they took the time to explore the world of Hellboy and its characters and because of that we were given even more spectacular events, cooler gadgets, better superpower abilities and greater action scenes.
At the end the movie there was still a good moral message ,even though, it was built around a character(and from my understanding) the devil child who was originally suppose to wipe the human race out of existence by bringing on the apocalypse but instead decided to buy a house (probably in the suburbs with a white picket fence as well) to raise his kids. Over all it was great and anyone who hasn't read the comic books will very much enjoy the movie.