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  Review by karen h. ★★★★½ 1

  you: the hellboy movies are great monster movies
  me, an intellectual: the hellboy movies are the greatest romances of our time

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 9

  Surely on my personal Mount Rushmore of movies that I feel like I should love and just ... don’t. It’s got Ron Perlman and that incredible makeup as a very likable Hellboy, terrific Guillermo del Toro direction, and imaginative production design. So what’s the problem?

  There’s a few. After Hellboy and his beloved Liz (Selma Blair), the most important character is John Myers (Rupert Evans), the newest member of the BPRD. He's supposed to be the audience surrogate that we see this incredible world through. But the BPRD isn’t honestly that weird, even if you've never read a Hellboy comic, and John Myers himself is even more bland and generic than the name “John Myers.”

  Plus the villains are all…

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  Review by lucy ★★★ 2

  why does GDT have an obsession with doug jones, eggs, and doug jones eating eggs is the question i find myself asking

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  Review by Ralph ★★★½

  Hellboy Retrospective: Hellboy (2004) Theatrical Cut

  I’ve been meaning to rewatch these films. I always enjoyed the Hellboy movies as a kid. I especially thought the action scene in the subway was cool.

  In this film, Guillermo Del Toro blends science fiction, adventure, fantasy, comic books, religion and war into an experience that is a breath of fresh air compared to hero films coming out now. This movie has style!

  The costumes and makeup effects are amazing. The Hellboy movies have some of the coolest creature designs in modern movies. The cthulhu like creatures in space, Kroenen bleeding sand, these images have stuck with me for years after seeing it.

  Ron Pearlman is great in the role as is Doug…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★

  hellboy risking it all for some kittens yup we do not deserve him

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  Review by David Sims ★★★½ 4

  it's cute but lord is it WAY too long. and the boring white guy? why is he in it at all? ron pearlman does such a good job connecting us to hellboy, there's no need for anything else

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  Review by adambolt ★★★ 1

  What is it with Del Toro and sexualising fish people

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  Review by aleph beth null ★★★★ 6

  a few weeks ago i wrote about how christopher nolan wasted the joker. imagine what guillermo del toro could have done with her. just look at how much this film believes in hellboy:

  he was assigned a name at birth, one which the film's villains refer to as his true name. towards the climax, he's bound in stocks, powerless, locked up by the name he refuses to accept. the father who brought him into this world insists he can never change, but his true father refuses to believe that: 'i know what to call him; nothing you can do or say can change that.' he files his horns to fit in (hates it when people stare) and tells liz he…

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  Review by Emma Stefansky 1

  we really didn’t know how good we had it

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★ 3

  still find this marginally engaging as a piece of overzealous dorky production design and vfx engineering but forgot how clunky most of the action is and how it hard it tries to narratively force all the weirdo pulp noir & cosmic horror elements of the material into a pretty standard, unremarkable adventure blockbuster/outcast superhero story.

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★½

  "Look at the size of that whammer"

  If I had a nickel for every time I said that I'd have a negative balance in my checking account! ;-)

  Ok so the dialogue may not be the normal every day repertoire of the average Joe Blow but it was often times funny or uber cool like something you'd find in some pulp fiction novel! The film as a whole definitely had a Noirish feel to it!

  The special effects team obviously put in overtime and it showed! The creatures were so well done I thought was in creature feature heaven! What Guillermo del Toro brought to this film in quality, style and atmosphere cannot be measured in dollars and cents! The man is a god when he is in the director's chair!

  Ron Perlman's larger than life performance upped the ante and it paid off brilliantly! Is there anything Ron Perlman can't do!

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★★ 2

  "Your ass is mine" -Hellboy,

  - Del Toro Ranked: boxd.it/23Ecm

  Kittens.

  Hellboy is my kind of super hero story, in part because it's a film that seems more tailored for middle aged problems. Hellboy is dealing with long term relationship issues, he mostly hangs out with one weird dude, and he is trying to separate himself from his dad's legacy. I like that it's a dialogue heavy film but when it counts, the action is beautiful and fantastic. As far as I'm concerned, Ron Perlman is Hellboy.

  Yep, I think it's underrated.