Senin, 08 September 2008

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

Title : Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Cast : Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, James Dodd, Luke Goss, Anna Walton

Genre: Action

Rating : Better than the first, i like it!

Pic : 21cineplex.com

Synopsis:

At 1955, young Hellboy (Ron Perlman) is asking his father a bedtime story. Prof. Bruttenholm tells him a a legend, a war between human and mystic world. King Balor, leader of the elves, creates golden army, 70 times magical 70 times mechanical, and he owns a crown which who ever use it, will be able to rule the golden army. The Army destroy the humans, but only lead to the king regression. King Balor divides his crown into three parts, one for him, one for the humans and one is taken by her daughter, one of the twins, Princess Nuala.(Anna Walton) .King Balor's son, Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) is unsatisfied, he doesn't believe in humans and insists to raise the golden army again. The two are quarelled and angry Prince Nuada leaves the kingdom.

At the Bureau of Paranormal research and defense, Agent Tom Manning is meeting Abe (Doug Jones), he's angry because Hellboy keep showing himself to public and their organization suppose to be a secret. Abe explains that Hellboy's relation with Liz (Selma Blair) is tensed, which probably the reason of his erratic behavior. An emergency alarm rings, they are asked to investigate incident in auction house.


At first the place seems to be very quiet, while searching Abe accidentally touch Liz' tummy and said that she is pregnant, but Liz ignores it and keep look around. Suddenly thousands of flying creatures, called "tooth fairy" attack the team. They eat human flesh in seconds.Liz blows her fire to burn the flying creatures and explodes the floor, blows Hellboy out of the building and when he lands on a car, he lets himself exposed, and people astonished.
Meanwhile Prince Nuada come to his father kingdom and after conquering the army, he manages to kill his father and take the second part of the crown, equips the first part which he took from humans in the auction house. Prince Nuada run after his twin sister, Nuala, whom bring the last part of the crown.

Back at the bureau, a new agent called Johann Krauss (James Dodd) is coming. A weird smokey creature in an old swimsuit. Krauss investigate one of the tooth fairy, he awakening the death creature with his pure ectoplasm energy. Krauss realizes that the creatures came from the legendary Troll Market, a gathering place for magical creatures. Rumors suggest that the Troll Market might be located under the Brooklyn Bridge so Krauss takes the team to search for it.

Spliting, Abe finally find Princess Nuala, and realize that they share the same power, in reading and feeling by hand touching. A huge troll, Prince Nuada follower, brust in and run after Nuala. Hellboy manages to rescue the two, but Nuada appears and said that no matter how hard Hellboy help mankind, they still will hate him because he's different. And all he said comes to reality, after beating a green leavy monster, police try to catch Hellboy and Liz must stand to defend him.

Being brought to the bureau, Abe and Princess Nuada get to know each other closer. It won't be long before Nuada finds out his sister and kidnaps her. While trying to fight him, Hellboy is stabbed with the prince's spear. Everytime the spear is touched, it will move closer toward his heart. Will he survive?

Comments:

I think this second movie is way better than the first. More mythical creatures and great costumes. Though their faces were not as beutiful as fairy tales i knew, but they were just great ^_^. Not too much comments, i like it. You should try to see

Fun facts:
  • Ron Perlman was turned down his role as Piccollo (Dragonball, 2009) due to his role in Hellboy
  • The first movie filmed at new Korda Studio, Budapest
  • Thomas Kretschmann was the first choice as the voice of Johann Kraus, but Guillermo Del Toro was not satisfied with the result, and subsequently brought in Seth Mc Farlene
  • When Krauss spoke German it was generally nonsense, and sometimes the grammar was incorrect.
  • When the auction room suffers a power cut and the lights go out, so should the monitor screens. Instead, they display static.
  • imdb.com

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