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Originally Posted by RetroGunslinger
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - 9/10
I'll be honest, I did the unthinkable: I doubted Guillermo del Toro. Yep, I said it, and I regret it. The trailers for this film made me think he had made his firm average film, and I was proven very, very, VERY wrong. Great on all front, with a memorable performance by Seth Macfarlane as Johann Krauss and some amazing fight scenes. Hellboy and Abe Sapien getting drunk and singing along to Barry Manilow made the film.
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It was everything I ever wanted in a movie. Wonderfully imaginative and realized, with an acceptably firm plot for a comic-book, fantasy action movie. I've heard some criticisms that the bad guys weren't, well, bad enough, but I thought the running ambiguity was delightful.
My only regret is that the elemental god lasted such a short time, because he was awesome. I guess the flip side is that his demise left something really beautiful in its wake.