Hellboy
Ok, so back in 1944, a troop of American soldiers and a paranormal researcher named Dr. Broom find some Nazis hanging out with Rasputin trying to open up a portal to another dimension. Out comes a small tiny red creature with horns, a tail, and a big-ass right hand, who Dr. Broom adopts, names him Hellboy, and raises him up to be a monster-fighting super-hero. This movie is weird.
Hellboy is directed by longtime fan-boy Guillermo del Toro, now famous from his latest independent film, Pan’s Labyrinth. He’s been around for a while and is known for directing Blade 2. Hellboy is the played by Ron Perlman, character-actor extraordinaire, who is absolutely perfect as the wisecracking blue-collar good-guy demon. I love how Hellboy files his horns down to look more normal, despite that fact that he ends up looking like he’s got two dixie cups on his head! Hellboy likes cats, smokes cigars, drinks beer, stuffs himself with pancakes, and stays undercover until monsters walk the earth. Then he is called on to kick ass.
The supporting characters are both interesting and unique. Abe sapien, was interesting in that his character’s origin was stated, but never really explained. The other characters just accept who he is and so does the viewer. A nice touch was the water tanks he wears around his gills when he is on dry land – very smart. Another cool character was Kroenen – the sweet action Nazi assassin who wears creepy-ass gas masks. Kroenen was essentially the Darth Maul of this film. I still don’t quite understand why he is made up of sand, or how his little clock thingy keeps him going, but like many aspects of the film, you can’t dwell on it.
The main monster in the film – "Sammy" as Hellboy calls him – is interesting at first, but gets a bit tiresome as the movie goes on. The whole Rasputin thing was also hard to take, even in the director’s cut. One thing is clear though, de Toro, who also wrote the screenplay, weaves together interesting character relationships, science-fiction-fantasy-superhero action and laughs into this visionary tale.
8 out of 10
Why not 9? – I accepted Abe, but come on! I need a little more explanation on lets see....every character in the film! Why not 10? – Effects were a bit CG-ish
Ok, so back in 1944, a troop of American soldiers and a paranormal researcher named Dr. Broom find some Nazis hanging out with Rasputin trying to open up a portal to another dimension. Out comes a small tiny red creature with horns, a tail, and a big-ass right hand, who Dr. Broom adopts, names him Hellboy, and raises him up to be a monster-fighting super-hero. This movie is weird.
Hellboy is directed by longtime fan-boy Guillermo del Toro, now famous from his latest independent film, Pan’s Labyrinth. He’s been around for a while and is known for directing Blade 2. Hellboy is the played by Ron Perlman, character-actor extraordinaire, who is absolutely perfect as the wisecracking blue-collar good-guy demon. I love how Hellboy files his horns down to look more normal, despite that fact that he ends up looking like he’s got two dixie cups on his head! Hellboy likes cats, smokes cigars, drinks beer, stuffs himself with pancakes, and stays undercover until monsters walk the earth. Then he is called on to kick ass.
The supporting characters are both interesting and unique. Abe sapien, was interesting in that his character’s origin was stated, but never really explained. The other characters just accept who he is and so does the viewer. A nice touch was the water tanks he wears around his gills when he is on dry land – very smart. Another cool character was Kroenen – the sweet action Nazi assassin who wears creepy-ass gas masks. Kroenen was essentially the Darth Maul of this film. I still don’t quite understand why he is made up of sand, or how his little clock thingy keeps him going, but like many aspects of the film, you can’t dwell on it.
The main monster in the film – "Sammy" as Hellboy calls him – is interesting at first, but gets a bit tiresome as the movie goes on. The whole Rasputin thing was also hard to take, even in the director’s cut. One thing is clear though, de Toro, who also wrote the screenplay, weaves together interesting character relationships, science-fiction-fantasy-superhero action and laughs into this visionary tale.
8 out of 10
Why not 9? – I accepted Abe, but come on! I need a little more explanation on lets see....every character in the film! Why not 10? – Effects were a bit CG-ish
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