I do generally avoid doing reviews of comic book characters as I tend to start comparing the movie to the comics but I decided to make an exception in this case.
The cute little Hell’s Angel we were introduced to in HellBoy(Ron Perlman) is now a regular in the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense along with his frnd Abraham Sapien and his beloved Liz, who is the subject of many ‘hot’ fights between them. In Christmas of 1955, a young Hellboy is told a bedtime story by his father, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm(Hurt), involving an ancient battle between humans and mythical creatures.
A goblin blacksmith built an unstoppable clockwork army for Balor, the King of the Elves, which could only be controlled by those of royal blood, provided no one challenged their right to do so. This’Golden Army’ of 4900 soldiers or "70 times 70 soldiers", devastated the humans so mercilessly that Balor forged a truce with them to stop the bloodshed: man would keep his cities and the creatures would keep their forests. Balor’s son, Prince Nuada, didn’t agree with the truce, and left in exile.
The crown controlling the army was broken into three pieces, one piece going to the humans and the other two kept by the elves, so the Golden Army could never be raised again. The story revolves around Prince Nuada and his quest to raise the golden army and our Bureau guys’ race against time to prevent it(along with the help of the princess Nuala) as it would cause the typical end of the world…. Lots of bad guys, weird creatures, a fantastic Golden army, great visuals, some superb special effects, Hellboy 2 has done complete justice to the comic. But most importantly, when u go to see a comic book movie, u got to leave behind all ur grown up lookout. U simply let loose the kid in you and let him have a good time .
I feel its not possible to criticize a comic book movie, cause if u do it, u didnt see it as a kid but as a grown up. And if u saw it as a grown up, u lost the entire point. I came out from the theatre, a satisfied kid.