Pleased, but unsettled

Rating: 7/10 (31 July 2008)

Personally, I thought Hellboy 2 was great, though not better than the original, which is a bit shocking. Perhaps it was the change in production since Columbia dropped it and Universal picked it up, maybe the writing was just different, and maybe it was because the plot honestly seemed a bit scattered. I don't know.
But one of my main peeves was the fact that good old John Myers was absent, which completely contradicts the first movie and Professor Broom's intentions. They say Hellboy sent him to Antarctica because he was threatened by Myers for Elizabeth Sherman's affections, but recall in the first movie when they actually got along? Myers really only had any interest in Sherman in the first half of the movie and backed off when he knew she was Hellboy's girl.
I really just hope that the actor Rupert Evans made the choice not to be in this film and the writer didn't just push him out randomly. But, so far, I have found no evidence of either theory. All we can do is hope Myers comes back from the South Pole in the likely third movie and we can have a "normal" person to relate to once again.