The only superhero out there who I'd love to have a few beers with and play poker.

Featuring the great Doug Jones.

I'd rather see a del Toro directed Hellboy movie every other year than a new Star Wars movie.

The funeral scene gets me every time. Something about this father-son relationship just clicks. All of the character interactions seem genuine, as though they had a real history and cared for one another, even beyond the current adventure. This creation of a believable emotional universe may be the chief reason why the pathos, which lies at the heart of most of del Toro's filmography, works so fabulously here. Even better, it achieves focused handling of character dynamics and storylines without neclecting the sense-wrecking action one might expect from an epic superhero movie. This one stands on top with the best of them.

Solid and dependable, Hellboy the film has a lot in common with Hellboy the demon. Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Mike Mignola's comic book is visually spectacular (as you would expect from Del Toro) but emotionally turgid. The cast do good stuff but ultimately the main story of Nazis and Rasputin left me a little hollow, with the final set piece being particularly underwhelming. That said, it's still a whole lot better than a lot of fantasy out there and Del Toro's films are always easy to watch.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

When the Nazi's open a portal to conjure any help they can get to win the war, a lone demon makes it's way through. Here since infancy, Hellboy works with authorities to rid anything that may be considered other worldly.

I came into the Hellboy franchise late. Pretty much only watching it because it's a Guillermo del Toro film. As it turns out, I liked it a lot more than I initially thought that I would. Ron Perlman works great as the protagonist and it pretty much looks like him.

I've been itching to rewatch the Hellboy movies for some time now and decided that it would make the perfect tonic for the disappointing Iron Man 3 from last week. This is in my top three of all comic book movies. It's funny and action-packed and pretty much perfectly cast. Incredibly well realised universe and it has one of the most intriguing bad guys in Karl Ruprecht Kroenen. All the little relics and gods and demons just add to a mythology that is interesting to me. I've only ever read a few Hellboy comics but I'd like to get my hands on some more. My favorite scene might be the opening attack on the Nazis in the rain.

Entretenida y chula.

Pretty cool, steampunk Nazis are the best Nazis.

Featuring the great Doug Jones.

I'd rather see a del Toro directed Hellboy movie every other year than a new Star Wars movie.

A comic book movie which has the real 'feel' of a comic book, with characters who have an attitude, wonderful, big-scale action-filled scenes, and stunning settnigs. Feels a bit like a slightly grittier, bad-ass Men In Black, but with more cigars and Nazis.