Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2008] | ![Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vMRX5kdhL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, James Dodd, Seth MacFarlane
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1661
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582556162
ASIN: B001DZA2K4
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: December 8, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The feverish emHellboy 2: The Golden Army/em is a very busy sequel that might have looked unhinged in the hands of a less visionary director than Guillermo del Toro. Ron Perlman returns as Hellboy, aka "Red," the Dark Horse Comics demon-hero with roots in the mythical world but personal ties in the human realm. Still working, as he was in Hellboy, for a secret department of the federal government that deals (as in "Men In Black") with forces of the fantastic, Red and his colleagues take on a royal elf (Luke Goss) determined to smash a longtime truce between mankind and the forces of magic. Meanwhile, Red's relationship with girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), who can burst into flames at will, is going through a rocky stage observed by Red's fishy friend Abe (Doug Jones), himself struck by love in this film. Del Toro brilliantly integrates the ordinary and extraordinary, diving into an extended scene set in a troll market barely hidden behind the façade of typical city streets. He also unleashes a forest monster that devastates an urban neighborhood, but then--interestingly--brings a luminous beauty to the same area as the creature (an "elemental") succumbs to a terrible death. Del Toro's art direction proves masterful, too, in a climactic battle set in a clockworks-like stronghold tucked away in rugged Irish landscape. But it's really the juxtaposition of visual marvels with not-so-unusual relationship issues that gives emHellboy 2/em a certain jaunty appeal hard to find in other superhero movies. --emTom Keogh/em
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 A great follow up to the first movie December 14, 2008
Lark (Ireland)
20 out of 25 found this review helpful
This is a great follow up to the original movie, my favourite this year, all the elements which made the original are here too, action, weird fable creatures, the mythology of an infant devil destined to destroy humanity becoming its greatest defender when he's fostered by a human father.
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br /Additionally there's some very thought provoking characterisation, there's no simple good/evil, black and white dimension to the forces in the film, each have their strengths and weaknesses and it appears more like its the extremes to which they are willing to go to realise their visions which set them apart as particularly wicked or not.
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br /There's the on going love story between Hellboy and his muse, interesting a muse for Hellboy's Atlantian buddy is introduced too with tragic consequences for all involved. The encounter with Hellboy's "Death", an angel of Death, is brilliant, probably the best of the weird and wonderful creatures featured throughout, it made my skin crawl.
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br /I highly recommend this to fans of Hellboy or Pans Labyrinth.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - A Golden Acheivment December 10, 2008
Martin (Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK)
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a Film well worth watching, regardless of if you have seen the first one or not... (Though you could get a 4 Disc Steel Tin version featuring HELLBOY HELLBOY II)
br /Some of the best scenes (and if you don't like spoilers...CLICK AWAY NOW,) include Hellboy finding out that Abe has fallen in Love with Princess Nuala, offers a beer and the two become Drunk for about 5 minutes of the film, Hellboy's ignorance of Liz's (Liz Sherman, for those who have not seen HELLBOY) Pregnancy, and Hellboy going head to head with Prince Nuada's Henchman, Mr. Wink.
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br /All In All if this was not released so close to THE DARK KNIGHT - This may have kept the Box-Office Going but it was pretty good competition - Watch The 2 Superhero films of the Year THE DARK KNIGHT and HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY.
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br /Enjoy and relax (or Vice Versa)
Superb, another Del Toro masterpiece. October 11, 2008
MC (Liverpool, UK)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the sequel to the 2004 cult movie Hellboy, which was a superb little movie made for half the budget of the majority of other movies based on comic book properties. Hellboy also had a small budget, but both movies use them to such effect that they both look like they were made for a lot more.
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br /This sequel continues the story of the excellent first movie, but also furthers it, by taking Hellboy (Ron Perlman) further into the realm of fantasy rather than the horror of the first movie. And Hellboy 2 is all the better for it, I loved the first movie, but this just better's it in every way, especially action and special effects.
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br /Believe me when i say you wont regret buying this on DVD, in any other year, it would have been movie of the year, but it isnt quite as good as The Dark Knight, but it comes closer to it than any other movie hs in 2008. A superb little movie, WELL worth the purchase.
Sympathy for the devil November 17, 2008
Damon K. J. Mitchell (Slovakia)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I, like many people, am becoming a huge fan of Del Toro's work both in English and Spanish and having really enjoyed the first Hellboy was excited about seeing this sequel.
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br /I saw it twice in the cinema, once in London in a special preview screening and again back at home on it's last night - and was completely bowled over both times. For someone like me who watched Ray Harryhausen creatures slugging it out on TV as a kid with his jaw open - this movie is a dream come true, Del Toro has just unlatched the top of his head and spilled his imagination onto celluloid and the result is amazing. I really liked the first one, but I love this one!
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br /The reason I gave this review the title I did was because I can see that for some people there maybe a flaw in this movie, and that is that there are no real human characters of any consequence in it. If you exclude Liz whose pyro-abilities leave her one foot in the creature camp anyway, we are left with only Manning who is a caricature bureaucrat, black suited agents that are tooth fairy fodder and obnoxious ungrateful members of the public.
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br /In the first movie we had Myer's, Professor Broom and even one of the Black suits was given a personality and a name - Agent Clay, if I recall; with his hair plugs.
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br /I'm not saying that this is a bad thing - what I am saying is that the movie is pretty damning of people and their behavior - it's sympathies are much more with the magical folk - but this can make it pretty hard to hate the 'villain'. Though I think the elf prince is an great character and his first scene in what seems like an ancient chamber, until a subway train screams past, is genius - there is moral complexity here. The story is in essence a timely environmental allegory - reminding us that there are many things that the world will be a sadder place without, and that the planet has many reasons to be very pissed off with us!
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br /I won't say anything about the incredible design work and vision - as there isn't anything to add that others haven't already said - except maybe that it really stands up to repeat viewings; I spotted so many details on my second viewing that I missed first time (like all the crabs on the legless Goblin!)
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br /There is an obvious hint in the scene with the Angel of Death at a third movie, but whether or not that story will ever get told seems doubtful (with Del Toro signed up for about 4 or 5 other projects - Including the 2 Hobbit movies and working as producer on a stop motion version of Pinocchio, which could be amazing given the bedtime story that opens Hellboy 2). I for one would love to see a Hellboy 3.
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BACK AGAIN OH CRAP December 8, 2008
Michael P. Hardwick (LONDON,ENGLAND)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The first HB movie came out without much hype,but did well takings wise so much that number 2 was commisioned.I am biased i love HB Golden Army is a great fantasy movie and if you have not seen it on the big screen then i would advise buy the DVD,great price from Amazon.If you are into great FX and fantasy Fun with and edge you wont be dissapointed.Long live HB and bring on number 3
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