I thoroughly enjoyed the first Hellboy. It was an outstanding superhero movie, with great characters, great design. Director Guillermo Del Toro also managed to adapt the comic in a way that he made Hellboy his own while completely respecting the original material. So just a little lighter, but stil with the Chtuluesque monsters.
The only flaw is that it came after Spiderman and was treating a bit on its territory, so it didn't felt as fresh as it should have.
Anyway a movie coming amongst my favourite in this genre.
So hopes were high for this sequel, as Del Toro was back on.
Well he followed on with the usual sequel rules: bigger & better, with great effect!
The movie follows the characters were the 1st movie left them. So people who tought that the first one wasn't dark enough, this one won't have you more satisfied s the tone is more or less the same. In my opinion thought it's a spot on mix of humour action and darker moments.
The production design is astonishing: the sets are varied and epic and you get to see a huge gallery of varied monsters (maybe more impressive than Star Wars).
The whole enterprise drips cool and poses like any superhero movie should do. It's like Ironman but with monsters instead of young billionnaires.
The action also takes it up a notch from the previous installment with some great set pieces and choreographies.
Ron Perlman still inhabits its roel perfectly as Hellboy and Luke Goss (previously seen in Blade 2) is a worthy (and bad-ass) villain.
The 2ary characters (especially Abe Sapiens) gets a bit more development, which is great and you get some very interesting new ones (Joahnn Krauss is excellent).
So Del Toro did it again, with a film in all aspects better than the first one (like Spiderman 2 was to Spiderman 1).
Bring on the 3rd! :)
No comments:
Post a Comment