![]() For example, swarms of tens of thousands of calcium-eaters, who devour humans both skin and bone and are the source of the Tooth Fairy legend. Youll see.The towering creatures fascinated me less, however, than some smaller ones. ![]() What was fascinating to me was what the octo-creature transformed itself into, which was unexpected and really lovely. Lucky they arent perfectly calibrated.There are also titanic battles in the streets of Manhattan, involving gigantic octo-creatures and so on, but you know what? Although theyre well done, titanic battles in the streets of Manhattan are becoming commonplace in the movies these days. Enormous interlocking gears grind against each other for no apparent purpose, except to chew up Hellboy or anything else that falls into them. Tom Manning (Jeffrey Tambor) from the secret center for extra-sensory perception tags along, but isnt much help except for adding irrelevancies and flippant asides.Now that we have most of the characters onstage, let me describe the sights, which are almost all created by CGI of course, but how else? Theres a climactic showdown between Hellboy and the prince, with the Golden Army standing dormant in what looks like the engine room of Hell. His comrades include Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), sort of a fish-man, the fire-generating Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), a Teutonic adviser named Johann Kraus (Seth McFarlane), and of course Princess Nuala. I had best not get bogged down in plot description, except to add that Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his sidekicks fight for the human side. ![]() Standing against this decision is his twin sister, Princess Nuala (Anna Walton).And so on. This would involve awakening the Golden Army: 70 times 70 slumbering mechanical warriors. But humans have cheated on our end of the deal by building parking lots and shopping malls, and now Prince Nuada (Luke Gross) defies his father the king and hopes to start the conflict again. The humans got the cities and the trolls got the forests. The sequel bypasses the details of Hellboys origin story, but adds a legend read to him as a child by his adoptive father (John Hurt), in which we learn of an ancient warfare between humans and, well, everybody else: trolls, monsters, goblins, the Tooth Fairy, everybody.There was a truce. In every way the equal of his original Hellboy (2004), although perhaps a little noisier, its another celebration of his love for bizarre fantasy and diabolical machines. Imagine the forges of hell crossed with the extraterrestrial saloon on Tatooine and you have a notion of Guillermo del Toros Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In this image released by Universal Pictures, Ron Perlman is shown in a scene from, "Hellboy II: The Golden Army." (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Egon Endrenyi) ** NO SALES **
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