A Nerd Reviews

Hellboy wasn’t a great movie and neither is Hellboy II.  That’s not saying you can’t enjoy either movie.

I just have high expectations for Guillermo del Toro and perhaps it’s unfair that I expect more than I’m offered in the trailers, because if Hellboy and Hellboy II came from, say, Uwe Boll, I’d have stood up in my seat and applauded.

These are the movies Mr. Boll has continually tried and failed to make.  Big action, big budget, over-the-top movies with stylized dialogue.  And sometimes that’s all I want, which is, unfortunately, why I’ve seen some of Uwe Boll’s movies.  But, where Guillermo de Toro succeeds, and Uwe Boll’s consistently fails, is in the establishing and sustaining of a consistent style of dialogue.  Mr. Boll sets up silly worlds, with silly characters, and silly dialogue, and then throws a scene filmed to look serious in the middle of all the silliness.  And you just don’t care.  Not only do you not care, but it pulls you out of the film and draws attention to how bad the thing is as a whole.

And this is where Guillermo del Toro does things right…most of the time.  He leaves the audience with the over-the-top world, the big action and silly dialogue, and doesn’t stop the entertainment to expect you to care about the unrealistic characters.  Well, unless his intention was that the audience care about the forced, awkward-to-watch love story between Hellboy and Liz-which may have been the worst part of the movie.

 But, at least he didn’t force a boob shot into the awkward mess…Uwe.