hellboy 2

[cptdeath]

keep your money. go see anything else

[know_buddy_kares]

Hm.. well the first one was kinda quirky to begin with, but it was a fun watch trying to see the neo nazis trying to break the gates of hell and unleash the wrath of the supernatural upon the world. I mean nothing realistic about it... you should know what to expect if you got some demon dude who grinds off his horns and sports the cheesy 80's look. Simply a fun watch, so though I haven't seen the 2nd one yet, I'll take all the thumbs down in consideration, but still will watch it and simply take it at face value.

[aequorea]

SPOILER:

The writer must be some kind of sexist. Aside from an early explosion she creates that does more harm to the team than good, Flame Girl just sits by the sidelines, bitches and gets pregnant.

HILARIOUS! Why didn't I think of that as I was watching? It's totally true!

I really enjoyed the movie, mostly due to the elf prince. Watching those fight scenes made me very very happy :-)

I have not read the comic book. I enjoyed the first movie, but I didn't think it was great, which is why I was easily pleased by this one. I agree though, it is more flash that substance. It's just such pretty flash!

I did notice one glaringly stupid mistake, though...

SPOILER:

In the scene at the auction house, Abe says that the tooth fairies eat calcium, and go for bones and teeth first. A minute or two later, the fairies have attacked and begun devouring one of the men, and as they eat away at him, you can see...

His skeleton.

Are you fucking kidding me right now.

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

yeah, i would have thought that they'd have eaten them from the inside out...

my favorite characters where the elves, and Ms. Angel of Death, eventhogh she was played by a man.

Although Doug Jones was incredibly busy on the set of Hellboy II: The Golden Army when we visited late last year, he took a few minutes out to sit and talk with our group of journalists about the sequel.

Doug Jones is the absolute nicest man you will ever meet, "bend over backwards" kind of nice.

In the new installment of the Hellboy franchise, Jones dons three different "get-ups" for three different characters. All completely different and all excruciatingly long to put on. But does Doug complain? Nope, he just asks for some water and a chair to rest.

He also has more talent in his one prosthetic finger than the entire cast of…well...most movies. Anyhow, he sat, best as he could, and spoke to us through a couple cracks he had in the Angel of Death faceplate. You can't help but feel for the guy. Imagine this staring at you during an interview, now if only the wings could really see...

Doug talked about the costumes, his characters - Abe Sapien, Angel of Death and the Chamberlain - working with Ron Perlman and more.

Read the interview in it's entirety below,

Q: How well can you see in this suit?

Doug Jones: He’s got this thing with eyes, Guillermo, I don’t know, he refuses to let me see when I’m on film. I’ve stumbled around many a set. I’m looking out through the cracks, there’s a crack running this way and a crack that way, those are my main ones and I have some holes in here too. I have better vision in this than the other two, because I’m also playing Chamberlain. Have you gone to the creature shop yet? Anyway Chamberlain is a very tall headed thing with two eyes at the top that are mechanical, so I’m left to look through a hole or two. Of course Abe is the usual tom foolery of looking through those tears ducts and when the goggles are on they fog up, so I stumble around a bit.

Q: Is taking on three characters overwhelming?

DJ: (whispering) Oh my god yes. (laughing) I had no idea how much I was taking on…"Three characters? Sure…it’s for Guillermo." But Abe Sapien is much bigger and much better this time in this movie. He’s been an absolute treat for me to play this time, he’s written with so many different colors and levels and there’s a love interest, it’s such a yummy thing to chew on. And his buddy time with Hellboy is more concrete and his brother/sister time with Liz is even better. I’m written into almost every scene as Abe and then add to that these other two characters…I just don’t get a day off.

Q: Are there scenes with Abe and other characters you play?

DJ: This one, we have a close call. My photo double was standing outside that keyhole there in the Abe makeup so they could get both of us in the same shot at the same time, but that’s a trick.

Q: How long have you been hanging here now?

DJ: This is day three. We were on stand-by the first day it filmed, that happens a lot. You can see the wires holding up the wings, the wings are about 40 lbs. we decided and it may not sound like much but when you have it concentrated on one spot on your back it helps to have that wire, otherwise I would become grumpy boy.

Q: What is Abe’s story this time around?

DJ: In the absence of Professor Broom this time, I think Abe has stepped up as a, I wouldn’t say leader, but he is the brains, the intellect of the team. And even Jeffery, agent Manning, comes to Abe to complain about Hellboy. He’s become that character, in the absence of a dad, Abe has sort of stepped up. But he is still very much a younger brother to Hellboy, because Hellboy is protective, he knows the ways of the world and Abe is kind of innocent. The difference with the storyline this time is the love interest thing. Abe never had love before and so there’s this adolescent sort of thing going on. It was so fun to revisit that time in my life because I’m way past it now. To rediscover what it was like to fall in love that first time and the stupid decisions you make and how you just become obsessed with that one focus. So your choices and your decision making may not be completely sound. You’ll see Abe go through a process with that.

Q: And it will be your voice this time?

DJ: I did "Blood and Iron" and "Sword of Storms" and had a lot of fun with that and basically I’m not changing…I’m using the same voice I did on the first film before it was voiced over. I’m not trying to sound like David Hyde Pierce, that would get confusing, "I’m trying to sound like David Hyde Pierce, sounding like me, what?" David and I weren’t that far apart from each other’s performance anyway. If you go on the Hellboy website there’s a video on there of me greeting you and that’s pretty much what he sounds like.

Q: How’s your relationship with Ron now that you’ve reteamed on the sequel?

DJ: I just love Ron, Ron and I are closer now than we’ve ever been and even though I’ve played in a lot of fantasy and comic book films I told him my greatest honor was to be his sidekick. Off camera we’re very much like Abe and Hellboy, in fact he said that, at the beginning of the film he said that he thought that Abe and Hellboy were very much like Doug and Ron and he wanted a line written into the film somewhere, with Hellboy looking at Abe and saying, "I don’t know if I’ll ever know what it’s like to be as good as you," that’s what he said and it was very humbling. What have I done to make this man think I’m an angel? He’s grumpy Ron and we wouldn’t want him to change for a minute, he thinks I’m too nice, he tells me so all of the time, he says, "quit being so nice, you’re making me look like an asshole."

Q: What was the thinking behind making the Angel of Death a woman?

DJ: Yeah, a woman with me in it. (laughs) I think the androgyny of it though is delicious. I don’t know if angels even have a…I do believe there are such things as angels. Do they have a sex? I don’t know. The script refers to the angel as a 'her' and that’s why I do. I think she has feminine qualities, but she’s not totally a woman either. And that’s okay I like characters that keep you guessing.

Edit to add: Link to original article

[Reaper]

I thought the movie was rather cool myself. I guess I am just not that picky when it comes to movies because everyone always hates on the movies that I like.

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

heh, same here lol

[Burrich1]

Change in plans. Gonna see it myself tonight. Will review it later.

[DropDeadGorgeous]

I hated the first one and had no plans to see this one and after hearing what guys had to say I won't be seeing it for sure.

[Burrich1]

Will post more later, but right now I have two things to say.

1. Awsome.

2. Princess Naula (Anna Walton) is hottness.

[cptdeath]

here i was thinking there was an army of elves or at least a war. nope just three elves that live in new york. i was expecting a bunch of elves face down on a curb with zip ties on there hands getting the shit kicked out of them. 200 guys in suits with ear peices walking around, big trucks flashing lights. Broc samson smoking a cigar with hellboy talking about "good job team, lets get them processed, I want all elves sent to guantanamo for interigation, " " copy alpha this is red team alpha niner delta bravo". it would be cool to see a drug cartel elves and 200 suits putting there faces in a curb with hand cuffs.

Nope three elves. imagine those royal gaurd dudes from silent hill in wire ties on the curb some feds putting boots to em with flashing lights every were.

[aequorea]

Nope three elves. imagine those royal gaurd dudes from silent hill in wire ties on the curb some feds putting boots to em with flashing lights every were.

how do you account for all the other elf-like individuals in the throne room???

are you only counting elves with spoken lines?

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

this isn't a true Hellboy 2 reply..but did anyone else see the two cable presentations of the Hellboy animated movies last night on Cartoon Network?

They played Sword of Storms, followed by Blood and Iron (better of the two IMO). I will have to rent them, because I only cut too the first one, because Nickelodeon decided to play the damn Avatar: Sozen's Comet movie, which is the END of the Avatar: the last Airbender series....damn you ppl who program tv schedules!!!

[know_buddy_kares]

Avatar pwns hellboy.. I would have done the same lol

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

Avatar pwns hellboy.. I would have done the same lol

indeed...but the Hellboy animated features are well done...and have live action cast voices

[Ivy13]

Ugh. I had the same impression with this that many of you did. I like the first one and this one was still fun but more of a rental quality rather than spending money on gas and movie tickets. I was annoyed too that they made his girlfriend into a breeder bitching at him to pick up his stuff. Is she like that in the comics? Does anybody know? If she is, I guess I can give them points for following the story.

[Nightgaunt]

Saw this last night with Tszura, and we were both sort of underwhelmed. I loved the first movie and thought that it did the comic justice. I have to say, I'm kind of surprised that Mike Mignola put his name on Hellboy II. This had movie studio executive fingerprints all over it, particularly with regard to the character of Liz. It was pretty obvious that the script had been heavily altered for marketing reasons and I'm looking forward to finding an original shooting script to see what had been changed. I thought it was enjoyable on some levels, but overall, I was disappointed.

If the movies have been your only exposure to Hellboy, I highly recommend getting the collected comics in graphic novel form. Beautiful artwork and character-driven stories.

[ManicQueen]

I think the Angel of Death would make a sweet tattoo

But yeah.. I thought it was a lot better then the first one so I liked it lots. There were lots of neato characters too.