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WHAT IS UP WITH HELLBOY?

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Ranting about the new Hellboy movie.

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY - REVIEW

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As unique as the original Hellboy looked, there definitely was something missing. Guillermo Del Toro's comic book movie had its moments and visually did the trick but it wasn't quite as fun and entertaining as it could have been. Good thing we got Hellboy II: The Golden Army soon after! Here's a sequel which takes everything you enjoyed about the first film, keeps it, and proudly throws away most of the stuff you didn't care for. This time, we've got a more epic plot involving a dude from a mythical world who is one of the last of his kind and who is planning to revive some army of gold robots in order to take over humanity. Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and co, of course, are hired to stop him but things have become somewhat more complicated since our unlikely hero revealed himself and the others to everyone in town. A lot happens in this movie: we go to some troll-filled realm where they all meet the Angel Of Death, Hellboy battles a giant forest God in the middle

HELLBOY - REVIEW

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Hellboy 's a weird one... For one thing, I always liked the look of the trailers and always wanted to watch it but somehow never got around to. I would catch glimpses of it on TV every so often and it looked really good to me. Besides, I was a big fan of Pan's Labyrinth and I was really looking forward to checking out another Guillermo Del Toro flick. Having never read the comics, I really had nothing to go on so I had no specific expectations. Finally, post- Pacific Rim , this year, I did it: I watched the entire thing. And, you know what? Was slightly disappointed. Now I know I'm pretty late in the game and I should be happy that they even managed to make a Hellboy movie. I am! And there are a lot of things I like about Del Toro's film. For one, Ron Perlman is perfect for the role and it's literally impossible to picture anyone else playing Hellboy. Spot-on casting there. The combined efforts of Doug Jones and David Hyde Pearce bring fish dude Abe to