Hellboy

Why Guillermo, WHY?!!!! It's like one of those trash British movies, albeit a bit darker. But still a room with a view and a staircase and a pond type of movies. You know, the ones with absolutely no plot devices. And lots of MacGuffins (look it up.) I was looking forward to this movie FOREVER as a huge fan of the character, and knowing PERLMAN would play him made it that much better. No one in the world could screw this up. Wow. Was i wrong or what? Perlman ended up being about the only thing that made this movie tolerable. Horrid effects, Selma's dry acting (Oh wow. i can make fire. meh. seems to be her general attitude), and a poorly laid out story. There's just nothing here for any Hellboy fans. Except perlman. IT gets a 1/10. Only because 1 is the lowest it goes.

In the year 1944, the Allies stop a Nazi plot to use a dimensional portal to awaken the Ogdru Jahad to aid them by mystic Grigori Rasputin. However, a baby demon comes out, one with red skin and a right hand made of stone, which Professor Broom, who was with the Allied Army that day, adopts. Fast forward to the present, and the demon, Hellboy, is a member of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, a top secret branch of the FBI dealing with monsters and demons. However, Rasputin has been revived, and now Hellboy must stop him from summoning the Ogdru Jahad once again. For a film rated PG-13, it has some dark themes in it. However, they made it work. Ron Perlman makes a good Hellboy, and David Hyde Price does good as the voice of Abe Sapien. The special effects help bring the monsters to life, and the story is a good one, despite the pacing being slow at times. This is one superhero film I suggest giving a watch.