Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

SoupyNorman

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army picks up after the events of the first film – Hellboy and his fiery girlfriend Liz are trying to make a go of living together, but there’s a lot of tension. Aquatic Abe Sapien still lives in a water tank, but he has new and updated breathing gear for when he’s walking around. And Agent Tom Manning, the liason for Hellboy and the team at the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Development is still trying to deal with Hellboy’s antics, where he is more and more being noticed and photographed.
He shouldn’t bother, though. When a Manhattan auction house is attacked by a sword-wielding elf and a troll, the event serves as Hellboy’s coming out party. While battling a flesh eating mass of tooth fairies – they’re creepier than they sound! – Hellboy manages to take the fight to a crowd of reporters, where he and the BPRD are completely outed. Cue the opening credits!
Being public brings new problems to the team as they deal with autograph hounds, hate mail and an appearance on Jay Leno. Meanwhile, the elf from the auction house turns out to be the prince of all elves, and son of the leader of the fairy realm. They’ve lived in peace with humanity for millennia, but the prince has a different idea – he wants to reclaim the Earth. To do that he needs to get his hands on the Golden Army, ten thousand goblin-built robots hidden somewhere. To control them he needs three parts of a crown, but his twin sister,(Abe's love interest) who is against his plan, has run off with one part. And Hellboy has a problem closer to home – his antics have made the government give the BPRD a new leader in the form of Johann, a German made of ectoplasm who may or may not be putting the moves on Liz.
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is a huge movie. It’s much bigger than the first, including flashbacks to the Golden Army tearing through a human army, a troll market filled with dozens of strange monsters, a five story tall tree elemental battling Hellboy on the Brooklyn Bridge, Yokai spirits rampaging in Tokyo and a dragon attacking Moscow. And that’s just for starters!
It’s also action packed. The script barely lets up from battle to battle, each getting bigger with bigger stakes. But the script, by Guillermo del Toro, doesn’t sacrifice these vivid and fun characters for the sake of action. Abe gets more screentime this go round, and he has a very touching emotional story, and even Mysterio-looking Johann has an emotional journey. Of course at the center is Hellboy and Liz trying to hold their unlikely love together.

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Ay Cee

Nice one, i really enjoyed Hell Boy.

And for some twisted reason I LOVE the old Gerald Mc Boing Boing cartoons on the DVD.

Shryke

I've watched the first one a thousand times. This sounds great!

irishash

I have heard that some of the filming for this movie is going to be done in Northern Ireland, with the giants causeway being the focus. I have also heard that there is going to be elements of mythology invoved in the plot streching from greek to irish (explains maybe the causeway filming) and something about dthua de danninn (wrong spelling I know)

madrab

sounds interesting alright, sorta like lords & ladies from terry pratchett