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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Rank 4 Reviews
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Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
By far the most imaginative action movie in ages - a mix of epic fantasy, tender romance, broad comedy and double-barreled excitement that satisfies all your pleasure centers. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)
The Mexican fantasist behind such sui generis dark fairy tales as The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labryrinth (and also the first Hellboy film) clearly spent his childhood devouring every issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland he could get his mitts on, ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)
Film Freak Central
It's at the forefront of one's mind during Hellboy II: The Golden Army (hereafter Hellboy II), Guillermo Del Toro's brilliant dance along an ephemeral tightrope between pop and Puccini, that David Cronenberg and Howard ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Film Freak Central
Boston Herald (James Verniere)
Big Red is back, and I’m not talking soda pop. Hellboy, of course, is the graphic-novel character sprung from the febrile brain of creator/co-scripter Mike Mignola. Hellboy was summoned from the pit by Nazis during World War II, but adopted by a human ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Boston Herald (James Verniere)
BDK Reviews (CBS Radio) (Kevin McCarthy)
Hellboy 2 is visually perfect and is a sentimental look into the world of Hellboy but keeping with the love story of the film it should have been called Heavenboy. Where was the bad-ass Hellboy for most of the movie? The movie suffers from some awful ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at BDK Reviews (CBS Radio) (Kevin McCarthy)
Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
While the first Hellboy pic was interesting and unusual, this new film comes across as vibrant and spectacular. The world that director Guillermo del Toro brings us here is much more imaginative than the first film. It is certainly more reminiscent of ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
Ever wonder what it would be like if your favorite filmmaker had the creative freedom to realize his or her own inner artistic aims? Ever lament the fact that directors like Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, or Darren Aronofsky are stuck working within a studio ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
San Francisco Examiner (Rossiter Drake)
Clearly, del Toro has a deep affection for both his characters and the world of gods and fairy-tale monsters, and it translates into a rich, sophisticated sequel that actually improves on the original. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Rossiter Drake)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Which is funny, since he's balancing a desire to settle down with his beloved and fiery Liz (Selma Blair) and his instinctual need to fight evil in his work for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, a secret government organization, under chief ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Well the summer is half way done and we are getting another blast of heat in the movie theater. We seen the big green fighting machine last month with The Incredible Hulk which was a outstanding motion picture and made up for the last on in the series. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Eclipse Magazine (Sheldon A. Wiebe)
Del Toro shows that Pan’s Labyrinth was no fluke as he sets up action sequences and emotional situations that are simultaneously larger than life and as real as oxygen. He puts his characters through trials of epic proportion, while keeping their feet ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Eclipse Magazine (Sheldon A. Wiebe)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Before he was known as "the visionary director of 'Pan's Labyrinth,'" Guillermo Del Toro was the iconoclastic director of "Hellboy," a superhero movie bred from comic-book attitude and mythic magnitude. But after feasting on the receipts from "Harry ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
[W]hile it's nice of Mignola and Del Toro to create something like this out of whole cloth it's the eye candy, not the story, that people are going to talk about. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
CHUD (Nick Nunziata)
In a summer filled with the brawn and brains and technology of the biggest studio comic movies in creation, count on Guillermo del Toro and his bag of monsters to supply the heart. Hellboy II: The Golden Army is oftentimes dark, laced with underlying ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at CHUD (Nick Nunziata)
Film School Rejects (Kevin Carr)
doesn't break a whole lot of new ground, but that's part of what I enjoyed about it. In many ways, it's a superhero movie for the Universal Monsters crowd ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Film School Rejects (Kevin Carr)
Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
In the first Hellboy (and in Blade II before it), Guillermo del Toro, the visionary Mexican filmmaker behind such masterpieces as "The Devil's Backbone" and Pan's Labyrinth, took the backseat in the loud, fuel-burning Hummers that are big blockbuster ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Reel.com
Why Guillermo Del Toro chose to take another shot at the Hellboy superhero franchise is a mystery, since the first movie, released nearly four years ago, barely broke even at the box office. More importantly, Del Toro himself has since become a widely ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Reel.com
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
frustrating not to be able to get a good enough look at them to be able to absorb all the details. That's actually a smart move on del Toro's part because A) it does sell the idea that these creatures do exist and simply go about their business on a ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Lessons of Darkness (Nick Schager)
Fathers figure prominently in Hellboy II: The Golden Army – their sins, their legacies, and the responsibility that comes from turning into one. In this superlative sequel from Guillermo Del Toro, a cloud of parental duty hovers over Hellboy (Ron ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Lessons of Darkness (Nick Schager)
WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a helluva hoot, a complement to and departure from the spate of superhero films this summer such as Iron Man, Hancock, Incredible Hulk, and Indiana Jones. The complementing part is obvious: super powers, super problems, ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at WCBE's It's Movie Time (John DeSando)
Detroit News (Tom Long)
The film's flaws wither in the light of its brilliant ambitions. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Detroit News (Tom Long)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
It's the path del Toro takes to get there that gives the film its propulsive kick: You literally never know what's coming next, and what does is always better and cooler than you could have imagined. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
CHUD (Devin Faraci)
Leave it to Guillermo del Toro to explore an issue like that in a summer blockbuster superhero movie. Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a dizzying leap from the first film, a real benchmark in del Toro's evolution as a filmmaker. Marrying the director's ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at CHUD (Devin Faraci)
CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
Time for me to own up. I never thought this movie would happen. The first Hellboy wasn’t exactly a box office smash and let’s face it, selling a superhero movie about a character who looks like Satan was never a sure thing to begin with. Yet I’ve ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
To make a comic-book fantasy this derivative yet this dazzling requires more than technique. It takes a director in touch with his inner hellboy. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
How often does a guy go from making one of the Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language film to making one of the summer's best action hero sequels? Not often, but the real irony is that though Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army is every ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
I can barely keep up with the mythology put forth by the "Hellboy" series, but I enjoyed the first film, and I enjoyed the new one. The best scene in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," writer-director Guillermo Del Toro's sequel to his comic book adaptation ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Imagine the forges of hell crossed with the extraterrestrial saloon on Tatooine, and you have a notion of Guillermo del Toro's "Hellboy II: The Golden Army." In every way the equal of his original "Hellboy" (2004), although perhaps a little noisier, it's ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
MightyGanesha.com (Diva Velez)
Del Toro's imagination cuts loose with a sharp, witty script. Hellboy 2 is the fun, fantastic comic book blast that the original film never quite lived up to. I'll be looking forward to "Hellboy 3: Rise of the Little Red Babies" in a couple of year ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at MightyGanesha.com (Diva Velez)
Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Guillermo del Toro first made his mark in the United States by directing highly effective genre films such as Blade II and Mimic (still one of the most underrated horror films of the last decade, in my opinion). With 2004's Hellboy, based on a popular ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Reel.com (Rudy Joggerst)
It's an entertaining, visually stunning romp busy with fantastic ideas and well-rounded characters... ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Reel.com (Rudy Joggerst)
Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Poetic, funny, darkly romantic and beautifully structured. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
It's the biggest, richest, most imaginative superhero movie of the summer. ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Almost packed with more imagination than we can take in, this sequel outdoes the original by deepening the characters and sending them into completely new places. It's colourful, funny and sometimes pretty terrifying too.
Reformed demon Anung un Rama ...read the complete Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
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