Badmouth » hellboy http://www.badmouth.net Look, Ma! No pants! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Beginners’ Guide to Hellboy http://www.badmouth.net/a-beginners-guide-to-hellboy/ http://www.badmouth.net/a-beginners-guide-to-hellboy/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:20:47 +0000 Brian McDonough http://www.badmouth.net/?p=851
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    • ]]>     http://www.badmouth.net/a-beginners-guide-to-hellboy/feed/ 7     Hellboy II: The Golden Army http://www.badmouth.net/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army-2008/ http://www.badmouth.net/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army-2008/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:02:27 +0000 Brian McDonough http://www.badmouth.net/?p=846 [rating:4] Director: Guillermo del Toro Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones In the summer of intense comic-book violence (see Wanted and The Incredible Hulk. Or don't.), writer-director Guillermo Del Toro certainly holds up his end. The first half of Hellboy II: The Golden Army moves like you've accidentally sat on the fast forward button. Mystery, horror, whimsy, action, character moments all come at triple speed, almost always in imaginative settings with a dozen things going on in the background, and it's to the film's detriment that the audience rarely has enough time to actually process and enjoy any given scene. If we refer to key story moments as “beats,” then the first hour or so of this movie is a relentless drumroll. The result is that the audience has a harder time connecting to the story and the characters. It's like we're watching scenery whip past from the sterile interior of a bullet train, when what we want is to be out there walking with the characters, breathing the same air. Still, even at high speed, the scenery is amazing. Del Toro creates an unforgettably gruesome twist on the Tooth Fairy in a demon-infested auction house, choreographing his fight scene with inventive brilliance that is just shy of too violent and too intense. The second Hellboy movie, much moreso than the first, is clearly from the same mind that created the brilliant Pan's Labyrinth. Hellboy II is Pan's Labyrinth on a case and a half of Red Bull. Related posts:
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