Hellboy

Hellboy

In some ways, Blood and Iron captures more of graphic novelist Mike Mignola's original vision than Guillermo del Toro's lackluster feature did in 2004. Hellboy, the demon brought into this world by the Nazis, but raised by "Professor Broom" to fight for good, was conceived as a drawing, not an actor buried under make-up and latex. The story, which incorporates elements from Mignola's "Wake the Devil" collection, sends Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and Prof. Broom to the haunted mansion of a vulgar millionaire. Hoping to cash in on the supernatural angle, he's filled the house with relics of "Blood Countess" Erzsebet Ondrusko (based on the 16th century Hungarian noblewoman Elizebeth Bathory), whom Prof. Broom defeated in 1939. It's really haunted, and the gang tackles harpies, ghosts, witches, werewolves, vampires, and the goddess Hecate. The key actors from the live action film repeat their roles as voices: Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Selma Blair (Liz), Doug Jones (Abe), and John Hurt (Broom). Perlman makes a suitably underplayed Hellboy, growling his annoyance at everything from a bad donut to a vicious blow from the iron-clad goddess. The limits of the animation would be less problematic if the direction were more dynamic. Tad Stones and Victor Cook don't get the needed power out of the action sequences, especially the prolonged battle between Hellboy and Hecate. It would be interesting to see what a talented director like Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Ruruoni Kenshin) or Hiroyuki Okiura (Jin-Roh) would do with this material. Blood and Iron will appeal to some "Hellboy" fans, but it lacks the dark panache of the original books. (Unrated, suitable for ages 14 and older: violence, grotesque imagery, potentially offensive religious imagery) --Charles Solomon

Production: Sony Pictures
  3 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
PG-13
Year:
2004
122
$59,035,104
Website
11,142 Views

John Myers:
[Enters the library] Hello?

[Myers looks around the library until he hears Abe's voice inside the tank.]

Abe Sapien:
Turn the pages, please. If you don't mind.

[Myers stares inside the tank until Abe swims up in front of the glass and presses his hand on it, surprising him.]

Abe Sapien:
Please. [Gestures to the books] The pages.

John Myers:
[Glances at the books, then looks at Abe] These? You're reading these?

Professor Broom:
[From behind Myers] Four books at once– [Myers turns to him] –every day. As long as I'm there to turn the pages. [Approaches Myers] My name's Broom. Professor Trevor Broom.

[Broom and Myers shake hands.]

John Myers:
Sir, I'm John–

Abe Sapien:
[Presses his hand on the glass] Agent John T. Myers, Kansas City, '76. T stands for Thaddeus, mother's older brother. Scar on your chin happened when you were ten. You still wonder if it's ever going to fade away.

John Myers:
[Touches the scar on his chin, to Broom] How did it–?

Professor Broom:
He. [Chuckles] Not 'it'. Abraham Sapien. Discovered alive in a secret chamber of St. Trinian's Foundling Hospital, Washington. His name was taken from his little inscription stuck to the side of his tank. [Points to the small piece of antique paper, framed on the wall, with his cane]

John Myers:
[Reads] "Icthyo Sapiens. April 14, 1865".

Professor Broom:
[Pulls down the bottom of the pneumatic tube] The day that Abraham Lincoln died. Hence "Abe Sapien." [Uses a pair of tongs to pick up two rotten eggs that are on the silver plate]

John Myers:
[Disgusted by the rotten eggs on the silver plate] Ugh.

Professor Broom:
Rotten eggs. [Puts the two rotten eggs in the pneumatic tube, then pushes up the bottom] A delicacy. Abe loves them.

[A vacuum sucks the two eggs into the tank. Abe catches the two eggs and eats them.]

John Myers:
How does he know so much about me?

Professor Broom:
[Turns the pages on the books] Abe possesses a unique frontal lobe. Unique. That's a word you'll hear frequently around here.

John Myers:
Sir, where am I, exactly?

Professor Broom:
As you entered the lobby, there was an inscription: "In the absence of light, darkness prevails." There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back.

[Clay pushes the cart of food into Hellboy's room, with Myers following behind.]

Agent Clay:
He gets fed six times a day. He's got a thing for cats. You'll be his nanny, his keeper, his best friend. He never goes out unsupervised.

John Myers:
Who?

[Clay picks up the Hellboy comic book and gives it to Myers. Myers takes it and looks at it.]

Hellboy:
I hate those comic books.

[Myers looks up to see Hellboy smoking a cigar and exercising with a 300 lb. Stainless steel Dumbell.]

Hellboy:
They never get the eyes right.

John Myers:
[Looks at the comic book, then at Hellboy] Hellboy. He's real.

Agent Clay:
Yeah, sixty years old, by our count, but, uh, he doesn't age like we do. Think reverse dog years. He's barely out of his twenties.

Hellboy:
What's with the hair, Clay? Finally got them implants, huh?

Agent Clay:
[Laughs uncomfortably] It'll– It'll fill in. [Feels his hair]

Hellboy:
Who's the squirt?.

Agent Clay:
Agent Myers is your new liaison.

Hellboy:
[Drops the dumbell] I don't want him. What, you get tired of me, Clay? [Picks up his lighter and uses it to light his cigar]

Agent Clay:
[Whispers to Myers] The candy. Give him the candy.

John Myers:
Oh, uh. Sir, I, uh, I have these. For you. [Holds up the two Baby Ruth bars]

Hellboy:
Father's back? [Clay nods] He's still angry?

Agent Clay:
[Normal voice] Well, you did break out.

Hellboy:
Ah, I wanted to see her. Nobody's business. [Uses his lighter to light his cigar again]

Agent Clay:
It is. You got yourself on TV again.

Hellboy:
Myers, huh? You got a first name, Myers?

Agent Clay:
[To Myers] Try not to stare. He hates it when people stare.

John Myers:
[Closes his eyes, to Hellboy] John. Uh, John Myers. [Opens his eyes] Well, John'll do. [To Clay] Stare at what?

Agent Clay:
His horns. He files them to fit in.

[Hellboy approaches Myers and Clay. He takes the Baby Ruth from Myers. Myers stares at Hellboy's horn stumps.]

Hellboy:
[Notices Myers staring at his horn stumps] What you looking at, John?

John Myers:
Uh– Oh, no, no, no. Uh, nothing. Uh, n– Nothing at all.

[Hellboy, Myers, and Clay hear a siren blaring. They turn to see the siren.]

Female voice:
Code red.

Hellboy:
Hey, hey, hey.

Female voice:
Warning: Code red.

Hellboy:
[Turns to Myers] They're playing our song. Come on, champ. [Pats Myers on the chest] Let's go fight some monsters.

[Hellboy and Clay head out, while Myers stands bewildered.]


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