#Toothfairies movie hellboy series#

Abe Sapien, the amphibious creature and Selma Blair as the fire-powered Liz, both return to give Hellboy someone to fight and interact alongside and we also have a new, German character who is essentially smoke in a suit voiced by Seth Macfarlane, which gives a new perspective to the film. There are plenty of cool characters surrounding Hellboy and making for interesting moments of their own. Imagine one of these taking your kid’s tooth in the night.

With Guillermo Del Toro at the helm, these monsters and the world around Hellboy was always going to be visually fascinating and it doesn’t disappoint. This means we get a very cool, massive plant monster, scary, creepy “tooth-fairies” and the final, huge Golden Army. Instead what they focus on is the monsters and creatures that Hellboy faces and with the very nature of the character, these have to be huge or unusual as well. The story is straight forward and hardly a complicated, twist-filled thriller but it isn’t the kind of film that needs that. Ron Perlman plays Hellboy brilliantly and is a very cool person to begin with, so to give him this kind of character was always going to produce some magic. To be able to write stories for a strong, large, red demon with trimmed horns and the mentality of a teenager means that you get some great moments and fantastic dialogue. Hellboy, as a main character, is a very cool creation anyway. The second film follows a similar, very cool pattern. It didn’t stay with me for very long afterwards and I’m sure if you asked me to recap the movie I’d miss a lot of it out but overall I remember it being a fun, cool, comic-book film that had an unusual hero to follow. So I was left watching and reviewing the film on its movie merits alone… which was uncomfortable to say the least. Even the rarer comic adaptations, like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Kick-Ass, I’ve tried to read before I see the film but Hellboy just slipped right past me. That meant that when I watched Hellboy I felt like I was under-informed. It’s the reason I’m really excited about The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises and Amazing Spiderman because they all seem to be heading in the right, true to the comics, direction that I think makes for the best interpretations of the characters.

#Toothfairies movie hellboy series#

This means I usually end up judging the film based on how close they are to the source material, which characters they change or miss out completely and why, and where they can go with the series depending on what changes they’ve made. As a self-proclaimed geek, I usually have some sort of prior knowledge or insight into a character or series if they have appeared in a comic.

I’ve never read a Hellboy comic so I feel at a disadvantage.