Hellboy 2 battles the Golden Army
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Hellboy is back for some more kickass action! This time, let’s get wowed by the director who brought us Pan’s Labyrinth. Visionary director Guillermo del Toro puts his hand on Mike Mignola’s Hellboy.
The Hellboy universe is truly suitable to the big screen. I loved the first Hellboy movie with the not-so-typical demon hero in Hellboy.
Mankind is plagued by the Golden Army because the truce between the human world and the supernatural realm was broken. With a little help from big organic robot-like people, they want to turn Earth into their Hellish playground. They are led with a superb creature of the underworld who can walk on both worlds. He kills the king, crowns himself and unleashes the Golden Army!
So when the monsters come running, who you gonna call? No one else but the Big Red guy with the flat horns on his head and the whole bunch of heroes at the B.P.R.D., a kind of Men in Black Agency for the paranormal.
The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense is composed of Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his babe Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), the aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones), and the BPRD’s rookie Johan Krauss (James Dodd), the protoplasmic mystic.
Hellboy has to make an important choice in the movie. In both worlds, he isn’t totally accepted so his choice would have very important significance. Similar to what he did with Pan’s Labyrinth, Del Toro still manages to show the proximity of the natural world and the underworld. The graphics are seamless and reminds me eerily of the creatures at Labyrinth. Must be the Del Toro signature.
The creatures may be weird, incomprehensible, but they are surprisingly beautiful. Hellboy and his team is up against Prince Nuara, a renegade prince who wants power and dominion over both worlds. He unleashes the Golden Army but Hellboy and the BPRD are there to stop him. The great thing about Nuara is his twisted way of thinking that his actions are supposed to bring honor and glory to his kind.
Hellboy came to life with Perlman’s voice and performance. His cool, detached attitude and strength, he comes across as somebody who can take on the challenge of the Golden Army. The story of the Golden Army told by Hellboy’s father to him in a flashback provides a colorful backdrop of the movie and helps create the frightening possibility of the Golden Army’s coming. Visual effects were simply great. I can’t help but admire the way that they seem to blend well with the whole landscape of the movie’s universe.
On the whole Hellboy captures much of the humor of the first film. But it is catered to audience who’ve seen the first one. If you haven’t seen Hellboy 1, that shouldn’t be a problem as this movie can pretty well stand on its own with its fantastic storyline, visual effects and performance.
| 2.9 |
i was just wondering if any of you guys have a first hand experience about Paranormal in real life.:*”