Hellboy
| release date | April 2 2004 |
| studio | Sony |
| director | Guillermo del Toro |
| writer | Peter Briggs |
| starring | Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Doug Jones, Rupert Evans |
| rating | PG13 |
| tagline | Give Evil Hell |
| site | sonypictures.com/movies/hellboy |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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This is such a good movie and I ireally cant wait for the new one to come out. I think the director did a great job on making the comic book come to life.
I loved it.
This is the most enjoyable film of the recent surge in the super hero genre. I’m certainly looking forward to the sequel.
Good movie, I like it full of action and creepy crawly things.
He’s bad to the bone!
“Hellboy” isn’t Guillermo del Torro’s best film, but it is unmistakably Guillermo del Torro.
One mistake when watching “Hellboy” would be to expect high art. You aren’t going to get that. But what you will get is the ugly, fantastical, gun-slinger of comic book heros. He may look like the devil, but he fights like a washed-up, war-torn hero and talks with the disposition of a man going through mid-life crisis while smoking a cigar in between one-liners and punching oncoming vehicles. What can I say, he’s a fun hero.
It’s been four years since I first saw “Hellboy” in theaters. At the time, I wasn’t impressed. However, the movie and character himself (played wonderfully by Ron Pearlman) has managed to grow on me. With the exception of John Myers, I enjoy every character in the film and every bit of the mythos that surrounds the characters.
“Hellboy” is a fun way to spend 2+ hours on a weekend.
a wonderful film from del toro brings the dark horse comic book character hellboy and his world to the big screen in wonderful visual style that had an interesting and adventurous script with funny and believable characters, a great fantasy film.
its helllboy
Love this movie. A really fun action adventure.
Ron Perlman as Hellboy is practically the greatest super hero there is. He’s badass, he’s funny, he loves a beer every now and again. Mix in some cthulu mythos and you’ve got a freaking sweet ass set up.
Even the melodrama that usually bogs down superhero movies works well here (especially the final scene; don’t even get me started!) Hellboy is undeniably one of the best super hero movies to date and it doesn’t even rely on the huge budget and special effects to get there. It’s all about fan service.
one hell of a sci-fi movie, but thats my point…
A lot of love went into this one. Cast perfectly all around, cool monsters, great action, lots of fun.
Although the sequel was better, this movie was awesome.
Overhyped, to say the least. Great villain, makeup and special effects though.
Very good
Big budget movie with monsters, a woman who can Spontaneously combust, nazis exactly what Hollywood needed
Dont understand why this movie is on this website but yeah it was pretty good
I usally enjoy Guillermo’s work, but I found this to be a little over the top and too daft. But overall it was entertaining and a good time passer
This movie is just pure awesome and has plenty of great action sequences.
a great movie
Great fun. Guillermo del Toro is teflon, man. He has yet to disappoint me with a movie. Monsters, Nazi’s, Satan, weirdo’s; this one has it all.
Movie design is scary close to Mike Mignolo’s brilliant illo and design of the comic books.
I love this movie great fantasy and action film.Great villains and storyline.
Meh it was alright.
compared to the second one, this one is no good. just skip this one and watch the second.
I suppose we have “Blade II” to thank for the existence of Guillermo Del Toro’s screen adaptation of “Hellboy”. That film lead to this one; providing Del Toro with enough money to make his dream project come true. Real filmmakers have real dreams; and “Hellboy” would be a pretty big one for just about any filmmaker. But Del Toro’s imagination is limitless, and he doesn’t let the studio, the producers, or the money stop him from making one of the fondest movie-watching memories I shall have from the modern age.
“Hellboy” is just-plain-fun. Let’s just say that. But there can be masterpieces of “fun”, and believe it or not, this is one of them. Funny, clever, and inventive all at the same time, Del Toro’s film is a visually striking and well-made adaptation of Mike Mignola’s popular comic book series. This is what a comic book movie should be. Fun…accessible…interesting…and intelligent. But few comic book movies can be like “Hellboy”, because few directors can be like Guillermo Del Toro. I find solace in both the story and the visual material found in the film; and that makes it all the more wonderful, for me, in terms of personal enjoyment.
The film begins with a sneak attack on a secret Nazi base, which lies somewhere off the coast of Scotland, and it is World War II (so essentially, we get some good alternate history here). The Nazis have built a portal that shall grant them access to some other paranormal realm beyond human grasp and understanding. When the American soldiers attack, they foil the plans, and along with Professor Trevor Broom (John Hurt), they stop the portal from running its course; but not until it takes the Russian Mystic, Grigori Rasputin, along with it.
In the aftermath, Broom is injured, but he discovers that something may have come through the portal before it closed. As it turns out, something did; and that something was a red, impish creature that takes an almost instant liking to Broom after he offers it -you guessed it- a candy-bar of Baby Ruth. He adopts the creature as his son, and names him Hellboy (Ron Perlman).
Hellboy’s discovery was the dawn of a new beginning. Soon, Broom is at the head of a top-secret, monster/paranormal being-fighting organization called the BPRD. Hellboy is taken care of by one of the agents, although a new one is transferred, and his name is John T. Myers (Rupert Evans). Hellboy fights monsters alongside Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, along with the voice work of David Hyde Pierce), some agents, and his red-right hand of stone.
Rasputin returns from the grave, and reincarnates the demonic “hell hound” Sammael, who causes Hellboy a load of trouble. But what is Rasputin’s aim for when he is making his return? Why is he back from beyond the grave? This isn’t really revealed until the finale, which is satisfactory, dramatic, and in some instances, very epic.
The story is simple, but it has its charms; one of them being the characters. Each one leaps from the comic pages on to the screen with inspiration, invention, and glee. This comes to show that Del Toro is not merely talented as a visualizer; but also a story-teller and a characterizer. Of course, the comic-book style of the film may not agree with everyone, but to fans of the comic and fans of imaginative filmmaking, this one’s a real, genuine winner.
And then there’s Ron Perlman as Hellboy. Let me tell you; this guy has found his role; his character. Perlman really isn’t the best actor out there, but here, he seems to be enjoying his role as only few performers can. Perhaps Del Toro is behind the magic; he provides a script that makes the Hellboy character funny, believable, and even believable. There are moments in the film that touched the themes of being a “freak” or being “different”, and I certainly appreciated that. I’m open to films as wildly imaginative, wildly ambitious, and wildly successful as “Hellboy”. I love it, some will not, but it’s a damn fine production all-the-same. And yes, it’s a personal classic for me.
it’s very enjoyable.