My boyfriend, Oniisan, was really excited to go see this movie. I'd seen a few previews for it, but this type of movie generally isn't my thing, and, for God's sake, he'd just dragged me to the Hulk a couple weeks ago. ( Which, by the way, was lame. Too much gunfire, not enough smashing! ) Anyway, I sat down and watched the first one on Thursday to get prepared, as I'd never seen it before and, since I enjoyed it quite a bit, I got a little more jazzed up for the new one.
The first thing that disappointed me was that he'd gotten that agent guy sent off to Antarctica, which was really too bad, as he'd been my favorite character in the first movie. I had thought he'd have a part to play in #2, but I guess I was wrong.
Still, the movie was pretty cool. I laughed when the elf guy wiped the blood off his mouth and it just vanished. An obvious edit so he wouldn't smudge his makeup.
And, Jehoshaphat, but Hellboy was dumb as rocks. Seriously, what is this guy, brain-damaged? You'd think the son of the lord of hell might have a little something going on upstairs, but I guess physical power is all that really counts.
I'll leave off the rest of my comments, as they're kind of spoiler-y. Long story short, I enjoyed the movie, and it was probably worth $10 to see all that action on the big screen, because action was all there was to this thing. The first one was better, but isn't that always the case? There were some badass fight scenes in #2, but sewer-dwelling elves are just not quite the same as an eldritch Lovecraftian beastie from beyond the stars. Even if they do have a robot army. The level of epic was just... less.
Your thoughts?
