The second Hellboy film, the sequel and the final work of Guillermo del Toro and Hellboy together on the big screen. It's a fun and quick ride. Everything present in the first movie is back here in this one. The charm of all the actors playing their characters, Mike Mignola's style and the small details to the mythical world of what makes Hellboy so unique.

The sequel Hellboy II The Golden Army picks up everything that made the first movie so special and doubles down on it. All of the set design, which is very fun detailed, tell a story. Each demon is built like a real existing being. Not much will be explained, which is a positive thing with these movies, but rather it's for the audience to picture the lore in their own imagination. You can also find more of Guillermo's ideas in Behind The Scene footage, where he brings up small details he put in the movie. It's very interesting.

Next to all that, Hellboy II also fixes a ton of problems the first one had. Like the lack of personality from the human characters and Hellboy not getting all the room to develop further outside of having to follow orders of the organization, his father or his girlfriend Liz. Here, he finally get's to do whatever he wants to do. With blowback or not. Also, replacing "John" with "Johan" (voiced by Seth McFarlane from Family Guy) was a good idea, laughable, but good.

p.s, what a "villain"..., if you can call him that.

As keen as I am for the new Neil Marshall directed _Hellboy_ reboot, I do still wish we had gotten to see a _Golden Army_ sequel to wrap up Ron Perlman's trilogy. Here director Guillermo del Toro lets loose all bars on his fantasy elements, stacking the movie with elves, trolls, even tooth fairies, making for a less grim, but still very good _Hellboy_ sequel. Not to mention it features personal favourite Luke Goss in what is probably his best role to date.

_Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._

Aight, this film is so much better than the first film and honestly, it is one of my favourite comic book films for many different reasons but the main being that it is so unique in the way that it is shot but also the way that the story is being told. As usual, Ron Perlman (Hellboy) is perfect as this character and I really hope we get to see him again one day as this character, but also Selma Blair (Liz Sherman) and Doug Jones (Abe Sapien) were really great in this film and the characters are developed really well.

But this film for me is made with the great addition of Luke Goss (Prince Nuada), he is amazing in this film and I really wish I saw him in more big-budget films because he is so awesome in this film and every scene with him is so masterful and also emotional.

The action was great as usual but with Guillermo del Toro directing I would not expect anything less, I loved the romance in this film as well because it all felt natural and not forced in any way. If you loved the first Hellboy then I think you will love this one as well, some of the CGI is a bit dated but it still looks amazing as well.