You know I said I’d catch you after the movie … ?
I wasn’t wrong …
I’ve literally just seen out Kevin D, Movie Night Adrian, Squeaky and Big Josh, after we all managed — here at my place — to catch Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.
And, my word, it was entertaining …
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5/12/2010
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army follows on from the original, with a small teaser section that sees John Hurt — briefly reprising his rôle as Professor Broom — telling a very young Hellboy — played by Montse Ribé in this scene, and Ron Perlman in the rest of the film — about the truce between elves and humans and it’s possibly for elven rebel, Prince Nuada* to break that truce by accessing the Hellboy 2 McGuffin: the Golden Army.
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Now, I’ll happily admit that the Hellboy series isn’t exactly high art, full of depth, meaning and reflections on humanity’s place in an alien and dark universe.
No.
It’s a blockbuster, popcorn movie!
So don’t expecting anything drastic on the intellectual front!
Sit back.
Relax.
And enjoy the fun.
As I think I mentioned to Adrian and Kevin, last night … ?
It’s high octane panto …
* Played by Luke Goss. Which is actually something of a minor niggle. Actually, not even that: more of a trainspottery, spot-the-influence thing. I’ve got to admit, I spent a happy couple of minutes explaining to Adrian, Josh and Squeaky where I thought Hellboy 2’s producers — as well as the designers of Jeremy Iron’s make-up, in the 2002 version of The Time Machine — got their ideas for the look of Prince Nuada. I’m not going to accuse anyone of outright plagiarism. But I definitely think both were heavily influenced by Michæl Moorcock’s Elric.
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