This is the second movie about the characters created by Mike Mignola. Guillermo del Toro once again take the helm of this franchise. The movie is beautiful to look at. Like Pan’s Labyrinth the fey and other mythical creatures do not look fake or computer generated (George Lucas please take note). The cast is almost the same as the first Hellboy expect Rupert Evans is not in it and del Tore adds another one of Mignola’s characters Johann Krauss, which is voiced by the awesome Seth MacFarlane.

The story was interesting. A the dawn of time elves, goblins, trolls and the other mythical races lived along side humans. The humans wanted more of the land and started a war with the other races. The first war the humans won and many of the races were killed. The goblins came to the king of the elves with a proposal. The goblins will build an army of machines that will destroy the human army. The Army is controlled by a crown that only one of royal blood can where. So the next time the humans attack the Golden Army is there to fight them. The Golden Army feels nothing…pain, remorse nor mercy. The humans are defeated and are verge of being annihilated. Seeing the devastation the Elven king makes a truce with the Humans. The crown that controls the Golden Army is split into three pieces.

The son of the Elven king Prince Nuada believes that the humans cannot be trusted and goes into exile until the day his people need him to kill the humans. This is where the movie begins. The Prince begins his war with the humans by stealing the piece that the was given to the humans. He does this by releasing two boxes full of “tooth fairies”. These things are fucking wrong. You will not like the idea of the tooth fairy after this movie.

I had a lot of fun with this movie. The story was cool the cast did a great job and del Toro did once again an amazing job. Go see the movie and then go out and get some of the graphic novels that this story is based on. The Hellboy series is great.