Comments on: Hellboy II: The Forgettable Feast http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/15/hellboy-ii-review/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: patrick http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/15/hellboy-ii-review/#comment-108685 patrick Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:46:01 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=3356#comment-108685 Hellboy 2 was fun; for sure that director has an amazing imagination, reminded me a lot of his work in Pan's Labyrinth Hellboy 2 was fun; for sure that director has an amazing imagination, reminded me a lot of his work in Pan’s Labyrinth

]]> By: badMike http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/15/hellboy-ii-review/#comment-108265 badMike Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:58:25 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=3356#comment-108265 Nice review. I agree with all of it. The film didn't feel cohesive at all. Didn't itfeel like a whole subplot about Hellboy not being able to fit in the world was totally cut out?. There were like two or three scenes implying this theme, so it felt like Guillermo was building it up into a major plot motivator. But then ultimately it just seemed discarded. Also, while the elemental monster scene looked excellent and was a lot of fun -- it was a thousand times more fun than all of Cloverfield -- the monster was too much a combination of Swamp Thing and Paul Pope's THB. I guess it was supposed to be an homage or something. Nice review. I agree with all of it. The film didn’t feel cohesive at all. Didn’t itfeel like a whole subplot about Hellboy not being able to fit in the world was totally cut out?. There were like two or three scenes implying this theme, so it felt like Guillermo was building it up into a major plot motivator. But then ultimately it just seemed discarded.

Also, while the elemental monster scene looked excellent and was a lot of fun — it was a thousand times more fun than all of Cloverfield — the monster was too much a combination of Swamp Thing and Paul Pope’s THB. I guess it was supposed to be an homage or something.

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