So I saw Hellboy a bit ago. I personally thought it was a lot of fun. I am only vaguely familiar with the comic, but it seemed to nail the various characters I was familiar with. Ron Perlman was born to that role. The thing that set it apart from most comic based movies is that it did not play like most opening stories. Most comic genre movies pretty much stick to doing an origin story first. This movie felt more like a sequel. Just jump in and tell a story with minimal set up. Made it tough to follow a couple of the relationships and know why some things were the way they were, but it did allow you to just tell a full story (more like X-men 2). Pretty gutsy move considering that Hellboy does not nearly have the fanbase of Batman or X-men. Heck, the next Batman movie is going to re-tell his origin again.
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