HELLBOY... reboot?!?

[Jinzo Ningen]

Good summary. So... um, yeah... I'll wait until I can catch this for free. Wow.

[tbeasley]

[klen7]

i thought it was a fine B-movie + super-hero romp. Certainly not the worst super-hero flick in the past couple years as the reviews imply. I agree with lhb that the R rating was in most ways gratuitous and the effects work is definitely on the low end. (Also Lobster Johnson may be an honorable mention in fan service confusing a general audience, after Solo's Darth Maul.) but to put this in the same boat as films like R.I.P.D., League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or Jonah Hex, seems a major over reaction. I would easily rank this above Fan4stic or TASM2. It's no GDT flick, but it pulls from the source and offers some fun creature design

[lhb412]

^ I'd argue that the film finishes in a state just as weak as some of the worst offenders, but the film had a fairly strong opening. The first third of the movie is solid B-movie fun. It's a film that gets weaker as it goes along and the main plot is exposed as somewhat rote in subject matter and extraordinarily lacking in execution. I wish Hellboy in the luchador fight and then hanging out with the secret society folks in the Wild Hunt was the entire movie.

Also, a problem when doing an adaptation of Hellboy is that most Hellboy things have been pretty good. The comics are brilliant, Guillermo's movies we're very good, and even the tie-in novels and direct-to-video animated films are pretty solid. That means Hellboy fans aren't used to something being below-par! We're spoiled!

[Dai]