Hellboy

Hellboy just might end up being one of the best movies you see this year.

One of those rare movies that's not only based on a comic book, but also feels like a comic book. It's vibrating with energy, and you can sense the zeal and joy in its making.

Hellboy is, to borrow a phrase, one helluva good time.

The screenplay has flashes of real wit, and Perlman is perfect in the title role.

An enjoyable if somewhat neutered defender of the free world. Make no mistake: Hellboy still has a hide as hard-boiled as Lee Marvin in "The Dirty Dozen," but now he's also wearing a smile.

Hellboy might not have the name-recognition factor of the Spider- or Batmen, but Guillermo del Toro brings the audience swiftly up to speed on artist-writer Mike Mignola's comic book anti-hero.

Hellboy is as much a wreck as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" or "The Punisher," coming and going in two weeks, and as much a bore as "The Hulk."

Hellboy: 10 out of 10: Hellboy is one of the three best comic book adaptations of the last ten years. Now considering the recent spate of mediocre comic book adaptations this is a bit like winning a beauty contest at a fat farm. Hellboy is simply head and shoulders above those. It is on par with the recent Spiderman movies (Hellboy sports a better hero and better CGI effects while Spiderman takes the nod in the love interest and villains categories) better than the X-men films and simply puts other comic book adaptations to shame (League of Extraordinary Gentleman should be particularly embarrassed) Hellboy starts with a rip-off of one of the last scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark and introduces such horrible clichéd villains as **** babe and Rasputin. Yet the scene works. Director Guillermo del Toro nails a comic book style to the direction that keeps the action and humor going during the most implausible circumstances. Another kudos is in order for the special effects, both make-up (which is spot on) and CGI. Now I seem to hate most CGI effects. Many a big-budget Hollywood film has come out recently with horrible special effects that stick out despite 50 million plus budgets. Hellboy's effects are simply seamless where one forgets that entire characters and locations are digitally generated. The acting is also seamless with lead Ron Perlman giving a scene stealing cigar chomping performance that rivals Daniel Day Lewis's turn in Gangs of New York and Jeffrey Tambor turning a stock cliché (obstructionist bureaucrat who wants to shut everything down) into a humanistic sympathetic character. (This is also an example of very smart writing that makes even the clichéd characters into three-dimensional figures.) While all is not perfect (In addition to **** Chick and Rasputin we also have a Clock/Sand **** and a Space Cthulhu as an improbable villains) Hellboy is better than an action movie should be, much better than a comic book adaptation ought to be, and immeasurable better than a movie called Hellboy deserves to be.

Hellboy ist ein Fantasy-Action-Heldenfilm. Die düstere Story wird durch den Humor von Hellboy aufgelockert. Die Monster entstammen von der SS welche am Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs Wissenschaft mit Magie kombiniert haben und so ein Portal erschafft haben. 50 Jahre später dient Hellboy als Monsterschlächter. Bald wird aber klar, dass er der Schlüssel für die Böse Fraktion ist, denn er ist der Täufel in Person. Jedoch entscheider er sich für die Seite des Guten, weil er von einem guten Menschen grossgezogen wurde.

Nothing impressive to me. Was an interesting movie, but quite bland and felt like it could've been much better. Maybe because I watched it now only and it could've been better if watched just when came out.

Jesus this movie was so **** a lot of people pointed out that if you’re a fan of the comics you’ll like this movie, I guess that’s the only thing this movie has going for it because I’ve never read a comic and the movie was utter garbage. I was so excited to watch bellboy for the first time, up until now I’d heard nothing but good things but wow was that such a disappointment. The writing was corny, the plot was bland and cliche, the characters and their performances were forgettable, and oh god the acting. Especially the main girl of the movie, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor as bad as her. Would give it a zero if it wasn’t for the fact he looks badass smoking a cig when they first introduced him.

If we were rating a movie based off how **** up looking Ron pearlmans face shape is it'd be a solid 10/10 Wtf did they do to my Hellboy