I have been waiting for this movie for such a long time, and managed
to access to a preview of this movie in UK cinemas about a week ago,
however, I was so glad that I managed to actually get a seat for this
movie as I was certainly not disappointed.
As with all my movie reviews, I shall give you an honest opinion of
the movie, going through both its good and bad points. Now, to start
with, and I must write this before I forget, I had a major issue with
the contingency of the movie, centering around the character Abe Sapian.
Those of you familiar to this series of comic know that Abe is a
water inhabitant that in order to survive out in the open must wear the
water equivilant of an oxygen tank…though its not exaclty a water tank,
but anyway I digress. For the first half hour of the movie, Abe wears
this tank when both in the Headquarters and the outside world…however,
randomly, part way through the movie seems to decide that he can
actually breathe oxygen and the water tank disappears for the rest of
the movie.
See, in all honesty, this isnt even a small inconsistancy…in fact,
its actually a pretty large one. Thing is some people are saying its
because he randomly got some kind of small adapter, however something
like this would need to be explained and would really only go hand in
hand with Red getting a new weapon…which by the way he does not.
And now that my rant is over I shall go on to talk about the actaul
film and story itself. Now most people seem to have mixed feelings
about this movie. I quite simply really, really liked it. It's not
often I find myself actually laughing at this type of movie, and
enjoying it, but I did. In fact its one of those rare Dark Knight
occassions, and probably the last for the year as more Hollywood
drivvel prepares to hit the big screens.
The acting is this movie was brillant, and the guy that plays the
Prince, superb. The make up was awesome and very believeable on such
characters as Red. And as for Ron Perlman, that guy is highly
under-rated as an actor and an action hero. In fact most people seem
to forget he was in Alien Resurrection and Blade II…in fact, seems he
likes to be in sequals…hmm.
I was however disappointed that David Hyde-Pierce didn't do the
voice of Abe Sapien unlike in the first movie, a voice that definitely
suited the character, however the voice acting was above par, and if
you hadn't seen the previous movie, then you honestly won't care.
Also, a new addition to the Hellboy cast was the infamous and
brilliant Seth MacFarlane doing the voice of the robot whom I believe
was called Krauss…though I am not entirely sure of the accuracy of that
statement. Anyway, his character was completely different the usual
Family Guy and American dad that MacFarlane has introduced us to over
the past few years, and I was pleasantly suprised at the limitless
acting skills that this man possesses.
The story to this new movie was very interesting and successfully
managed to keep my attention for the majority of the film, with the
random comedy scenes, great action scenes and fantastic general story
telling. And even though there will be a lot of people who will
disagree with my opinion of this movie, I actually don't care. This is
one of those movies that you will either love or hate, and for me this
is defintely one of the best movies I have seen all year…not that there
have been many contenders.
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