Attention: If you are in any way slightly photosensitive, avoid this movie like the plague.
I have never seen a movie with so much flashing light in it.
I don't really get affected by light sensitivity but this was making me a bit uneasy. It's almost like watching a strobe light at some point.
I sure didn't.
And I was quite excited at the prospect.
More Hellboy! That's always fun and they even got Ron Perlman.
Now Ron Perlman performance isn't anything great.
I don't know if that's down to him not being a particularly good voice actor or if he just wasn't given any real Direction what is lines. He felt a little flat.
Now there's nothing technically wrong with him.
He's performance works well enough and you get that occasional chuckle out of some of his monotone one-liners that he ends up saying towards (insert any Supernatural elements you can think of) so in that regard it's still kind of works.
I don't know maybe in the newer Hellboy movies he'll have better Direction.
It's not like he was the only one suffering from audio problems. The voice acting in general is subpar with the exception of the woman who played the mystical Fox elements being. She was pretty spot-on.
Anyways the film revolves around the mystical story of a thunder and lightning god Duo whose Spirits were captured within an ancient Japanese sword.
Said Elemental Spirits were able to possess the body of a Japanese historical professor and attempt to steal the sword that captured their Spirits away.
Not sure how they can do possession when their Spirits are supposed to be caught within the sword but whatever.
Trying to find logic in Hellboy is like finding practicality within the House of Lords. It might be there somewhere but you're going to have to look long and hard.
While the possessed man was trying to steal the sword an ancient warrior spirit (who had originally imprisoned the to deity God's) is able to fight them back that's causing a psychic anomaly around the area of Japan that the battle took place.
This gets the attention of Hellboy and his respective organization who then have to go and investigate the problem.
Hellboy at one point picks up the very sword they're looking for, He's than transferred away to a mystical spiritual realm where he has to contend with ghosts, lake monsters and other mythical beings.
While all that's happening Hellboy's 2 friends: Abe (the fish man) and his ''girlfriend'' Liz (the one who has elemental fire powers but has a poor control of them). Are sent in as secondary investigators after Hellboy's disappearance.
They crash land in the middle of the ocean and have to contend with this weird dragon sea creature which is attempting to sprout for from the earth via the conditions brought on by the thunder and lightning spirits who are trying to escape back to the Mortal plane.
It's weird that the Japanese mythology doesn't really mix up at all with the gothic Hellboy aesthetic. But the secondary monsters that come about because of the elemental gods are just old school Gods like that in the original Hellboy film.
It feels disconnected, but it still works out for the best.
There's no real Great Character dynamic between anybody and the dialogue is a spotty on from time to time.
The art style of the cartoon is okay. Kind of reminds me of the DC cartoon Universe in that everything is drawn well enough but it's a bit simplistic in design.
The animation is passable tho nothing that will pop out in your mind.
It's an okay animated feature. If I hadn't already been invested in the original Hellboy movie from a few years earlier I probably would have given this a pass. But I'm intrigued enough to watch the other ones at some point. Here's hoping they can have a bit more character in the next film.
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