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Hellboy II
4:56pm Friday 22nd August 2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (12A) ****. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, Jeffrey Tambor and Anna Walton.
AN even further upgrade from the enjoyable first Hellboy movie, the franchise continues to be in the safe hands of Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro.
He again delivers the goods in this smart, funny and exciting sequel that will blow your socks off .
Del Toro does humour very well and Ron Perlman’s turn as the beer swilling, cigar chomping anti-hero is a delight.
Hellboy is still working for the US government and still attracting the ire of his overanxious boss Tom Manning (Jeffrey Tambor).
And his relationship with his pyro-magician girlfriend Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) is beginning to creak under the strain of being in the public eye.
The bad guy this time around come in the form of the demonic Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) who is dominated by a desire to obtain a lost crown that will give him the power to command an unbeatable golden army.
Based on Mike Mignola's comics, it is all nonsense of course, but what enjoyable nonsense these films are turning out to be.
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