Guillermo Del Toro's sequel to the surprisingly good first Hellboy goes off without a hitch. Great direction and action make up for the pretty lame story and generic story between Hellboy and Liz. I liked the humor in places and for the most part the humor helped the story along. Some of the film changes the tone of a dark story to a total comic book film, which takes away from what could've been even better of a movie. Del Toro's imagination is on display in full force here and that's what makes this movie work over your normal comic movies. The story has some holes that don't really ever explain why or how the earth became home to two different worlds, especially when there was no mention of them in the first movie. Not that the movie is ruined because of it, but it's nice for the sequels to mesh with the others and play off each other. A solid movie with lot's of summer fun. It's one of the better summer flicks, but not the best or even close to the worst.
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