As Randy put it, “It’s the best movie they could possibly do with the material.” I’m more than inclined to agree. The mods to the story line (the FBI guy, the love triangle, the death of a major character) are far outweighed by the utterly remaining true to the spirit and imagery of the Hellboy source material. The prolog/”origin” stuff is, in particular, practically grabs Mignola’s panels and throws them up on the screen.
The acting is solid, the HB makeup is a lot better than I thought it would be, and I think anyone who likes the comics will almost certainly like the movie. Two stony thumbs up!
(Major thanks to Jackie for watching Kitten while we went off and watched HB. They ended up going to Home on the Range, which Jackie seemed less than enthused about afterwards; it’s not yet clear what Kitten thought of it, as she crashed pretty quickly upon our getting home.)
I took Young Miss Laura to see “Home” on Friday afternoon. If that is the last example of “traditional animation” to be a major release from Disney, than Walt is spinning in his grave…or his hibernation chamber, or wherever.
The contrast was enhanced by the fact that I took Liz to see “Girl with a Pearl Earring” Friday night. Talk about world’s apart!
The early buzz on Home on the Range was pretty mediocre, and it sounds like it’s lived up to it. From the ads, at least, it falls into the “frenetic kid-cheering hip-talking action” sort of cartoon, more like Hercules than, say, Mulan — and thus, one of the lesser Disney efforts.
well, saw the DVD last night and thought it was very well done. could’ve done with out the mostly pointless love triangle bit, but I guess they needed some sort of plot device to show the inter-character development.
Yet another good job by Perlman.
I knew I’d forgotten something on Amazon …
I watched this last night as well. I really enjoyed it. I thought the female lead was boring however, so didn’t really get the whole love triangle thing. Otherwise, it was a good flick. Ron Perlman is awesome.