Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Special Edition) (3-DVD) PG-13
Believe it or not... He's the Good Guy.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 11, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ron Perlman & Selma Blair | |
Performer: | Doug Jones, Luke Goss & John Alexander | |
Directed by | Guillermo del Toro | |
Edited by | Bernat Vilaplana | |
Screenwriting by | Guillermo del Toro | |
Composition by | Danny Elfman | |
Story by | Guillermo del Toro & Mike Mignola | |
Produced by | Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin & Mike Richardson | |
Director of Photography: | Guillermo Navarro | |
Executive Production by | Chris Symes |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] breeze to watch...constantly inventive in its monsters and always ironic...
Sight and Sound
The film's exuberance, and the sense that it's all one big gimmick-packed action toy, give Hellboy II: The Golden Army a refreshing cinematic purity.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
In a season of endless comic book superheroes, Hellboy II is a unique visual feast.
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Canada.com
Clearly, such material appeals primarily to teenage fanboys, but del Toro's dark humour broadens its scope.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]here's more poetry and subtext than is typical for a comic-book movie, with themes of fertility, maturity and mortality laced throughout the slam-bang action set-pieces.
Total Film
The story of HELLBOY 2 is a happy hodgepodge of bantering humor and portentous metaphysics, packing a remarkable range of moods and genre elements into a fairly compact 110 minutes.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Hellboy II is fabulously imaginative, visually sumptuous and dramatically complex; what's more, it's very funny and engaging.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Product Description:
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY begs any number of referential mash-ups to be used as description of its outlandish tonal and stylistic qualities. It's a little like a romantic and sophisticated live-action Ninja Turtles movie imbued with a cracked version of H.P. Lovecraft's monster storytelling. It's a feature-length version of STAR WARS's Mos Eisley Cantina mixed with a scrappy, proficient passion for creature design reminiscent of Ray Harryhausen. It's also kind of director/co-writer Guillermo del Toro's HELLBOY (2004) wrapped in a blanket of his PAN'S LABYRINTH. This sequel is all these things, but none of them can accurately capture the singularity of a movie which, in some ways, stands alone in its ability to capture the crass and literary luridness of reading a comic book. It's filled with gross creatures bursting with humanity, dark poetry, and slapstick comedy; in one scene, an argument between Hellboy and Johann Krauss, a formless gas contained in a mobilized suit, escalates to the point of Tom-&-Jerry-like violence.
As Hellboy himself, a heartfelt anti-hero who regularly eliminates supernatural threat as an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense alongside girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair) and comrade Abe Sapien, Ron Perlman again embodies the role with the kind of pathos and humor that one can only expect from a horned, red-skinned Hell-spawn who loves kittens and acts like a hardboiled detective who happens to watch TV and drink a lot of canned beer. HELLBOY II's rather interesting antagonist, Prince Nuada, isn't just an evil dude. In the mold of the complex villains typically found in Hayao Miyazaki's animated fairy tales, his intentions of restoring control over Earth to an Elvish race by regaining the key to unlock the indestructible Golden Army are at least based on a legitimately noble sentiment before megalomania kicks in.
As Hellboy himself, a heartfelt anti-hero who regularly eliminates supernatural threat as an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense alongside girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair) and comrade Abe Sapien, Ron Perlman again embodies the role with the kind of pathos and humor that one can only expect from a horned, red-skinned Hell-spawn who loves kittens and acts like a hardboiled detective who happens to watch TV and drink a lot of canned beer. HELLBOY II's rather interesting antagonist, Prince Nuada, isn't just an evil dude. In the mold of the complex villains typically found in Hayao Miyazaki's animated fairy tales, his intentions of restoring control over Earth to an Elvish race by regaining the key to unlock the indestructible Golden Army are at least based on a legitimately noble sentiment before megalomania kicks in.
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- UPC: 025195047289
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