This blast also serves to knock Hellboy out of a window and come crashing down to the street below, revealing the demonic man to the general public and the mass media, who are in full force at the scene with live TV cameras and reporters. Of course, these little suckers soon attack Hellboy, Liz, Abe, and the human BPRD agents, culminating in Liz having to utilize one of her patented fire blasts to take out all of the tooth fairies. The brains of the BPRD, Abe Sapien (suit-performed and voiced by Doug Jones in this film), quickly realizes that the attack was from tooth fairies, nasty, flying little things which feast on their victims' bone, flesh, and, yes, teeth, until there's nothing left but tooth-fairy feces. After a particularly destructive row between the two, the group is called in to investigate the auction site in Manhattan where nothing remains of the highbrow attendees of the event aside from… well, crap. We cut to the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense headquarters in New Jersey, where we learn that Hellboy and his pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) are now living together - and fighting like cats and dogs. Unleashing an unseen swarm of creatures, the prince takes the piece and leaves while showing no mercy whatsoever for his human victims. To that end, Nuada and his faithful (if monstrous) troll companion the Wink interrupt a human auction in New York City, where a piece of the golden Crown of Bethmora, which can control the army of legend, is on the block. The time has come, we realize during an intense exercise regiment by the prince, for him to retake what he believes to rightfully be his. He has waited these long years and watched as humanity has abused the planet and pushed his kind and the other magical folks of the world into the increasingly smaller and darker corners of the planet. Hell on EarthĪs the boy Hellboy grabs his toy gun and jumps onto his pillow to go to sleep, dreaming of Golden Armies and Elven royalty and the final battle involving both that will surely come one day, the film transitions to the opening credits, an impressive display of clockwork-like Golden Army mechanics… After which we meet Luke Goss' Prince Nuada, the son of the Elven king who went into exile in the days after the Golden Army was locked away by his father. This tale is rather magical itself as presented by director del Toro, told via Hurt's voiceover but also with stop-motion animated dolls that are so excellently manipulated as to warrant a movie all their own. ![]() ![]() The king, regretting these actions, decided finally to set a truce with his former enemies, hence establishing a balance between the human world and the more magical that has lasted for millennia since. Surrogate dad to young Hellboy, the Professor reads his adopted son a bedtime story about an ancient struggle between the human race and the Elves, a conflict with saw the King of the Elves summoning a mechanical "Golden Army" which decimated the humans it faced. His father, Professor Bruttenholm, who had been killed in the first movie, is back courtesy of this peek at the past and is once again played by the one and only John Hurt. What's In It: The film begins with a flashback to Hellboy's younger years, when our otherworldly hero was a mere boy - albeit one with horns, red skin, and a Right Hand of Doom.
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