Review of Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) by Syzygy — 12 Jul 2008
In the wake of his magnificent Pan's Labyrinth, critics have draped Del Toro with the cloak of a faultless auteur who we have to appreciate to be worthy of our intellectual vanities. Hellboy II is retread and blase, boring and all-too familiar.
Del Toro is sloughing through a look which he has been rehashing for a number of years, cribbing from one film to the next. What is most fatal to Hellboy II is the lack of any seriousness. Del Toro has his characters wallowing in lazy repartee and throwaway interactions so that they wont interfere with his first love, which - surprise, surrpise, - is his CGI-rendered fantasy universe.
This review of Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) was written by Syzygy on 12 Jul 2008.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army has generally received positive reviews.
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