Great fun, if you have "An Acquired Taste".

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2008)

Gilliam, Raimi, Jackson and Del Toro. Those four are brothers and partners in crime. The crime being making better movies than anyone else. One of those things these four has in common is a belief that the story is at the center of the action movie. This movie is packed with a very tight story, of course not perfect, but Guilormo does not think lightly of his audience, for he himself is a part of that same audience. He believes that we, the audience, have a brain that can be used and manipulated into having fun. The structure of the story reminds me of a factory of ideas, and like Jackson found a friend in Fran Walsh, equally Del Toro must have spent hours thinking of how to do this right. How not to disappoint. All of us with an acquired taste deserves better than the average Bruckheimer flick. Ideas that dares us to use our imagination, and look past flaws and look at the greater picture. And this story holds every element of adventure, drama, comedy and action and of course we have seen it all before, we have seen villains wanting power to bring back their ways, we have seen humorous anti-heroes fighting for the very existence of mankind, and so on and so forth. And yet this movie is another in the line of movies that does not take themselves too seriously and succeeds in us just having fun. And this movie is yet another chapter in the never ending story of good and evil, and I will never grow tired of watching evil getting smacked up by good. It's like when you meet a person you really like, you want to befriend them. You want to be there when things happen, you want that person to be real, not just some of that usual golf car raging havoc on the streets of new Orleans entertainment. Catch my drift, probably not. In other words, I had fun watching this, I was intrigued by the freshness of it all, and,, look hell-boy says it himself,,
Hellboy: -reading a CD's track listing- "Can't Smile Without You"? Abe Sapien: I know... Hellboy: Yep, I'm gonna need a beer, too!
just relax, and don't panic. It's just entertainment. D.