Hellboy 2 110 minutes PG-13 Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, Seth MacFarlane Director: Guillermo del Toro (The Orphanage, Pans Labyrinth)
'...a clear and present danger to your valuable time'- Tom Clancy
Hellboy and his buddies have to save the world from an underground race of beings. I'm not going to get into the plot because its fairly complicated.
Hellboy 2 had a solid director and visually this movie was quite impressive. Plain and simple, the movie was boring. The script, the dialog/relationships between the characters were pedestrian, trite, and unimaginative. I'd had no reason to care about these characters. The entire movie, the audience is well aware that all these characters are going to be unharmed and everything will be back to normal once they beat the bad guys (without much struggle). Conflict is the essence of any story, but this movie lacked anything of the sort.
Every comic book movie has its share of faux pas. When I see these movies I'm not expecting too much. Just some ass kicking, and a bit of mindless entertainment, a popcorn flick, if you will. The movie just wasn't any good.
Final Verdict: 68 of a possible 100
Sidenote: Hancock sucks, The Hulk, and Ironman were halfway descent.