Hellboy II: The Golden Army (DVD)

*film only review* Fanboy! Fanboy they shout! This is the cry I hear in my dreams - my name is Sam and I am a Fanboy! I love 'Hellboy', it was my favourite film of 2004 and I have the film on DVD twice and BluRay once. If that's not excessive, I don't know what is. Fanboyism is a double edged sword; people will assume that because I loved 'Hellboy' so much that I will automatically love the second film. Wrong. The fact that I do love the first film so much means that I could hate the second film for ruining the characters (see the Star Wars films). Whatever happens the chances are I was either going to love or hate, 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' - ...

International director Guillermo del Toro has often gone on record saying that he likes to make one film for studios ('Blade II') and one for himself ('Pan's Labyrinth'). With this school of thought it makes Del Toro's 'Hellboy' movies difficult to classify. It kind of straddles the two camps with the first movie containing the big spectacle of a studio release with elements of the director's personality seeping in. The second in the saga; 'Hellboy 2: The Golden Army' continues with this mindset but makes everything a little bigger. The story focuses on an outcast elfish prince who wishes revenge on mankind for the way it treated his species in the past. In ...

Spawned from Hell, our red-skinned hero now works for the US government, secretly dealing with paranormal threats to national security. Assisted by the fishman, Abe Sapien and his girlfriend Liz Sherman, Hellboy (Red to his friends) pays little regard to the authorities, much to the dismay of his superior Tom Manning. Eventually, too much unwanted attention leads to the arrival of a new leader, the ethereally challenged spectre Johann Krauss. An ancient legend is about to unfold. Buried deep within the bowels of the Earth lies an enormous army of mythical warriors, controlled only by a magical elfin crown. When the elfin Prince Nuada decides to break an ...