Hellboy II
date:Saturday, August 30, 2008 time:9:40 PM venue:Cinestudio address:300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106 View map from:Cinestudio
(PG-13, 2008)
Written and directed by Guillermo del
Toro, based on the Dark Horse comic by Mike Mignola. Director of
photography, Guillermo Navarro. Music by Danny Elfman. Cast: Ron
Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambour, Anna Walton, John
Hurt.
Hellboy II is on fire with a highly combustible mix of
pulp pop energy and the Miyazaki Hayao-on-acid imagination of director
Guillermo de Toro (Pan's Labyrinth and Cronos). Without the gravitas
and social neurosis of those other superhero movies, Hellboy II is a
purely enjoyable ride through the fan boy universe. Here, a demon
raised by humans (the salmon-hued Ron Perlman) is free to take on a
delightfully freakish Golden Army of angry elves, carnivorous tooth
fairies, gargoyles, talking tumors, and a massive endangered plant bent
on destroying lower Manhattan. "Hellboy is kind-of a klutz, and I love
him for that." - director Guillermo de Toro. 110 min.
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