Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

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a spectacularly vibrant, varied, detailed, freakish, magical, surreal and exciting universe for this sequel to Hellboy (2004)

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08/23/08

3/5

All the same, this isn't a patch on the phantsamagoric splendour of Pan's Labyrinth, over-egging every set-piece and outstaying its welcome by at least half an hour.

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08/22/08

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The film shows a certain wit and a refined eclecticism: a director who in a few seconds combines Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, a quotation from Tennyson’s In Memoriam and two monsters singing Beautiful Freak deserves watching.

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08/22/08

4/5

Prepare for some devil worship. Hellboy is the hottest, strangest and most fun comic book hero around.

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08/22/08

4/5

Playful, offbeat and with a decidedly droll sense of humour, Hellboy II’s a richly rewarding superhero film with moments of gleeful comedy that films like Get Smart can but dream of.

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08/22/08

4/5

A devil of a good sequel.

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08/22/08

7/10

Smart lighter touches such as Hellboy and Abe’s crooning to a Manilow classic set this apart from other comic book adaptations and the stylish direction keeps your attention. Great fun.

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08/22/08

4/5

A baby-step backwards after Pan’s Labyrinth, but a rung up from the original Hellboy: more laid-back, even more out-there. Ignore the shaky plot and gorge on the grand design as del Toro lets his imagination – and some classic creatures – off the leash.

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08/22/08

4/5

Second time around, director Guillermo Del Toro scores another direct hit with a monster yarn as keen on the gags as the global destruction.

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08/22/08

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As a result, the impression is one of richly ingenious chaos that, despite all the hellfires burning, left me just a little cold.

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08/22/08

4/5

Hellboy 2 is a movie that's a tingling boost to the senses: and that sense of humour is such a stimulus to the other five.

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08/22/08

4/5

With Hellboy II, the comic-book blockbuster has finally grown up — without giving up the fairy-tale wonders of our youth.

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08/22/08

3/5

Del Toro's imagination is as fertile as ever but the plot keeps too much in reserve.

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08/22/08

4/6

Guillermo del Toro’s Fabergé egg of a fairytale is not so much a sequel as a fusion of the fabulist imagination of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ with the witty, irreverent comic-book action of his own ‘Hellboy’.

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08/22/08

4/5

As much Tolkien's baby as Mignola's, this has more heart and humour than most fantasy films can dream of. Hellaciously good.

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08/22/08

3/5

By Mike Martin - From the man who made Pan's Labyrinth it's a disappointment.

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08/19/08

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Cinema is full of monsters, but few in recent memory have been so capable of eliciting our sympathy and understanding

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08/18/08

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Hellboy 2 is fully satisfying neither as simple summer fun nor as a more thoughtful alternative; if anything, the two elements clash, cancelling each other out.

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08/08/08

4/5

While the plot lends itself to pretentious blockbuster hysteria, del Toro keeps things grounded by focussing on the characters and their sardonic banter

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07/28/08

4/5

...moves with the virile grace of a prizefighter.

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07/25/08