Hellboy.2.The.Golden.Army.2008.R5.LINE.MKV

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It is hard to express how excited I was about seeing this movie. I’ve been a huge fan of Del Toro since Cronos, and have followed his career ever since. When I saw the first Hellboy, I couldn’t believe how well he nailed that movie. I’m a fan of the comic, and Red has always had that personality, but the way Del Toro helped Perlman bring it across screen was actually better than I’d imagined when I was reading the comic books. Now when I read the newer books, it is Perlman’s Hellboy that is in my mind. When I saw news of this sequel being doing I was very happy, but then I saw the first trailer and that made me that much more anxious. Now I’ve seen the movie and I just can’t believe I wasn’t more excited. The problem with now writing the review for it is, I can’t say or talk about all the things I want to talk about because I don’t want to ruin it for anyone else, so this could be a short overview of all the things I’d really like to get into with much greater detail, but maybe another time.
The story begins with Hellboy as an actual boy and his father (John Hurt reprises the role for this brief cameo), reading to him about the legend of the golden army. It speaks of how the humans are so hungry for power that they want to rule over all the realms of the world, including the mythical one. The humans become very strong, so to assist the king against the humans, a strange fellow comes along and builds and indestructible army of golden machines that can be ruled by someone of royal blood who wore the golden crown which controlled them. The creatures defeat the humans but the king is distraught with such guilt at what he has done that he decides to make a truce with the humans. They could remain in their realm and stay out of the mythical realm and the mythical creatures would do the same. At the truce the crown is broken into three parts. The king keeps two and gives the humans the other as on offering of good faith. The king has a son who is ashamed of his fathers actions and disappears following the truce to the humans. He is said to remain roaming the land, waiting for the right time to come back and bring back the golden army to reclaim that which he thought rightfully his.
We are now in the present and witnessing an auction taking place in Manhattan. Lot 777 comes about and it just happens to be the human’s part of the crown. In comes Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) with his big creature pal, Wink, to take the piece of the crown away. He also leaves two huge boxes that are sealed with the royal symbol. They open the box and out comes massive amounts of little creatures with sharp teeth. Since the Prince had made sure not to feed them they were very happy to see all the people who were there to participate in the auction.
In New Jersey, Manning (Jeffrey Tambor) is speaking with Abe (Doug Jones) about how irresponsible Hellboy (Ron Perlman) is by continuing to be seen by the public. Abe tells him it is because Hellboy has a lot on his mind with the new relationship that he and Liz (Selma Blair) now have. They make their way down to the quarters of the couple to catch them in a heated argument, which is timely interrupted with news of the auction disturbance. The three of them and a couple of the agents go in and investigate. Abe notices the seals on the opened boxes and speaks of how they are historically used as symbols of war. They find the things that were inside the boxes and then decide to use this as a good starting point to launch an investigation onto what is actually going on here and make sure they have ways of keeping these things from happening in the future. Obviously the are onto something far greater than they anticipate and this begins the real journey.
I know I may’ve gotten a little wordy. Sorry, just trying to set it up. The actors where great again in this movie. As I said earlier about how Hellboy now is Perlman to me, the other two did a great job of reminding me that they shouldn’t be too offended if when I see them out I call them Abe and Liz instead of Doug and Selma. They just seem to be perfect for the part. Goss does a very good job as the Prince as well. I could sit here and name all the cast if I wanted to get into who did such a good job, but I’ll just leave it at that. For all the things that came across that screen, the actors did a great job of making me believe that maybe those creatures really exist.
The effects were amazing. I don’t know how Del Toro continues to do it, but he seems to be getting better and better. I know that is the normal progression of things, but he just seems to have an ease about blending CGI in with other objects and actors as if they were actually there. Don’t even get me started about the many different creatures. It actually took me back fondly to my memories of that cantina back on Tatooine. There were some similarities to some of his “Pan’s Labyrinth” creatures at times, but there isn’t anything wrong with that.
Obviously, I could and would like to go on about this movie, but I don’t want to say too much more. The only thing I will mention is that if you like the first Hellboy movie, you haven’t seen anything yet. The first movie had such a wonderful vision and there were moments when just seeing what was on screen and listening to the music was enough to move me. This movie had those same kind of moments. Maybe one of the better things about this movie is that it centers more around the main three characters and we get to see them a lot more. I don’t like to tell people to go see a movie, but if you don’t have anything better going on for a couple of hours this weekend, this is some time well spent. I’m actually going to go ahead and see it again this weekend, too.

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