Hellboy II: coolness, oddness, and Boxed Spoilers

[Love_Rhombus]

I misremember, does Hellboy still use a lighter in this one?

[smiling_bandit]

People here had the same reactions I did - I just had both sets of them at once. Made for an interesting viewing experience, certainly.

[CandidGamera]

@ArchiveGuy

I have to say the movie’s main selling point was the sheer sense of supernatural wonder in the visuals that was largely missing from this year’s Hulk, Narnia and Indiana Jones movies. Truly spectacular and exactingly rendered, with some marvelous new creatures that didn’t merely seem like tired retreads of what we’ve seen before. I didn’t like that two main characters thought their own personal love lives were more important than the fate of the world (whatever happened to a little heroic self-sacrifice?), but overall I liked it better than the first film even though it is a bit of a mess.

FTR, Doug Jones also plays the Chancellor and the Angel of Death (both quite memorably)Not according to the IMDB. Oh, and the OP should know that Del Toro directed the first Hellboy, too.

I said Klaus, not Krauss.

American Dad! (TV Series 2005– ) ⭐ 7.4 | Animation, Comedy

Paranoid Randroid was under the mistaken impression that Seth Macfarlane does the voice for “the fish character” in American Dad, and used the same voice for Krauss. He doesn’t, and therefore he couldn’t.

[Miller]

@burundi

Nope. I refuse to feel ashamed for enjoying a popcorn movie that I went to see primarily for del Toro’s cool creatures. Sure, it wasn’t *Pan’s Labyrinth *, but I’ve got room in my life for both brie and Doritos.

Problem is, the Hellboy comic is definitly on the brie end of the spectrum, so getting a Dorito movie out of it is a bit of a let down. The cheapie direct-to-DVD animated Hellboy movies are a lot closer to the spirit of the comics, and tend to be better written to boot.

[burundi]

@Miller

Problem is, the Hellboy comic is definitly on the brie end of the spectrum, so getting a Dorito movie out of it is a bit of a let down. The cheapie direct-to-DVD animated Hellboy movies are a lot closer to the spirit of the comics, and tend to be better written to boot.

Fair enough. I’ve never read the comic, so I came in with different expectations. If I had and was expecting something deeper, I probably would have been disappointed. Sometimes, there’s joy in not being a fanboy.

[smiling_bandit]

@burundi

Fair enough. I’ve never read the comic, so I came in with different expectations. If I had and was expecting something deeper, I probably would have been disappointed. Sometimes, there’s joy in not being a fanboy.

I was dissapointed just based on the first movie. It wasn’t great art, but it had a more coherent story. My biggest beef was that even within scenes things happened for no reason. People kept doing or not doing incredibly, ridiculously stupid things.

[Khadaji]

Bored the piss out of me. I liked the first one, but this one was lacking. I too felt like the Troll Market might as well have been the Star Wars cantina. I like the comparison one poster made of Krauss to Jar Jar Binks. Hated the Krauss character.

The Princess looked like someone from a Tim Burton animated film. Maybe TNBC.

Overall, one of the lesser films of the summer.

[bubastis]

Hey, any big-budget Hollywood movie that has its final battle in Antrim, which is an hour up the road from me, scores highly in my book.o wierd to hear that little goblin dude speak in a SinnFein Gerry Adams accent! Everyone in the cinema ROARED with laughter, which I’m sure wouldnt happen in other countries!
Other than that, loved it; troll market made me dizzy trying to spot all the different creatures (until I spotted the same creature twice, which broke my heart).

Tecate beer? Doesnt Hellboy spend a lot of comic time fighting the goddess Hecate? Nice.
Couldnt Princess McBeal

[spoiler] just cut off a hand or something? Why so dramatic? Did she HAVE to kill her self? Couldnt she just… wound herself???

And my friend wondered how he could manage to have an evening with her that wouldnt leave the prince limping for days [/spoiler]