First Hit: Despite a lot of interesting looking creatures this film is a bomb and definitely wasn’t worth seeing.
I’m not sure why I went to see this film, maybe I was just curious or because I admired Guillermo del Toro’s wonderful work in Pan’s Labyrinth.
The quick story line is: There is the all powerful Golden Army of the underworld which is currently sleeping because of a truce between the underworld and humans who had previously waged epic battles. Whoever has the golden crown will have control over the Golden Army which is virtually indestructible.
When the truce was finalized, the crown was broken into three pieces, one held by a human, one by the king of the underworld, and the third by Princess Nuala (played by Anna Walton) daughter of the king. The son of the king, Prince Nuada (played by Luke Goss), who is also the twin of the princess, dislikes the truce and runs off into hiding. When he learns that part of the crown, owned by the humans, was being auctioned off, he comes up to the human world and steals this one part of the crown.
Hellboy (played by Ron Pearlman) and his cohorts (played by Selma Blair, Abe Sapien and others) are called in to investigate this other world invasion because they have powers of their own and will assist the human government in finding out what is going on.
The Princess senses the danger of what her brother will do and joins Hellboy and his band on stopping the prince from obtaining the final piece of the crown and the map indicating where the Golden Army is being hidden.
There are battles throughout this sequence between the Prince and Hellboy and crew. In the end you already know who wins already so I don’t need to go any farther.
This film is a mess. It meanders and the story line is wasted and was very uneven in its quirkiness. Add poor acting and the constant shift between comic book characters and an attempt at making the film believable, we end up with a fully grown mess.
Overall: This film is a full on groaner.