What a terrible movie.
Flawed in everything. Acting. Directing. Writing, oh, especially the writing. Some of the dialogue is beyond terrible. and some of the scenes are even worse.
I’m a huge fan of Guillermo Del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone is one of my favourite movies of all time. And the rest of his are pretty special too, even Mimic is watchable. I always thought, here’s a guy that I’m willing to trust, willing to let him take me where ever his over active imagination wanted to take me, but now, I don’t know. But, Hellboy 2, is just plain unwatchable for roughly 95% of the duration. From the opening sequence with a young, ridiculous Hellboy, the tone was set for something that not only wasn’t going to take itself seriously, but wasn’t going to take the viewer seriously either.
Its hard to pin down one specific part of the movie that made it so bad, but i was forced - or even asked, to point one out, it would be the singing duet between Hellboy and Abe Sapien. Yes, duet. Singing. In a Hellboy movie. Wht the fuck is up with that? Now, a duet of a awesome song might, I say MIGHT be forgivable, but they don’t sing an awesome song, they sing “I Can’t Smile without You” and whilst that might be funny to 2% of the world, it isn’t funny to me. And I’m guessing it isn’t funny or wanted by hardcore Hellboy fans either!
The action, in places, was interesting, but it wasn’t amazing. The sets however were pretty agreat, as where some of the character designs - even if those same characters had terrible voices and even worse lines - I’m thinking mostly about an Irish legless troll thingy.
On top of the bad script and the average action, you add to this some terrible acting. Selma Blair is right up there with Rosie Perez for worst actress since the invention of the vagina. She was just plain awful, not a second went by that I didn’t want her to just die. Mean, maybe, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Jeffrey Tambor was just awful, why the fuck he had ANY lines, let alone the amount he did is beyond me. And the casting of Seth MacFarlane as the voice for Johann Krauss just pissed me off, I didn’t know it was him at the time, but it just irritated me the whole way through as being incredibly off. Why didn’t they get a real German to do it?
Anyways, I’ve gone on long enough. The short story is, avoid this movie. It’s bad, real bad.
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