Hell
Boy 2-The Golden Army was released this past summer. I can hardly
believe that I’m saying this past summer already. And for anyone who is a
fan of the comic or a fan of the first movie, then you’ve already seen
it, but for those who have not and who enjoy sci-fi in general I’d
recommend this movie.
You may be a bit taken aback if you don’t
read the comic and be at a slight disadvantage on the learning curve for
watching the movie, but it’s not anything that you can’t
overcome-especially if you enjoy the film and watch it more than once!
The first film Hell Boy that was released the summer of 2004 and while I
was not a fan or reader of the comic I thoroughly enjoyed the first
movie. Ron Perlman plays Hell Boy very well-he portrays him more like a
stereotypical bad attitude cop than a being from an alternate reality.
He’s just your average everyday crime fighting prince of darkness trying
to fit in! He has the same problems that many of us have. Difficulty
with his supervisor, trying to get along with his co-workers and he’s in
love with someone he works with and is trying to make that work too.
So
just ignore that he’s 7 feet tall with red skin and sanded down horns
on his head. Some guys shave their head-he shaves the horns!
The
first installment had us seeing how Hell Boy came into our world, and
then his subsequent work on a specialized government task force to rid
the world of paranormal phenomena. His task was to stop Rasmussen from
taking over the world-and while the Monk was pretty ugly he did have a
hot girlfriend! Why do the bad guys get such hot looking women? You
never see Jedi knights walking around with their arms around gorgeous
babes! [Forget that the Jedi order is celibate, and that it has
nothing to do with this movie!]
The second movie has the king of
the Elves fighting his son for control of the mythical golden army-why
would we call the army mythical? If we can have the royal court of the
Elves why can’t we have a “Golden Army”? But there is the ever present
Hell Boy/Bad Boy image and attitude that continues to exist from the
first movie-and it does continue to provide both excitement and laughs
in the film.
Over all I recommend this film!
Hell Boy 2-the Golden Army
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411477/
Hell Boy [2004]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167190/
Wikipedia-Hell Boy 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy_II:_The_Golden_Army
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
