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Hellboy (Director's Cut) [2004] | ![Hellboy (Director's Cut) [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516bQo-RfNL._SL160_.jpg)
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| Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Actors: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1331
Format: Anamorphic, Director's Cut, Pal, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 127 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 0.8
EAN: 5035822485693
ASIN: B000AAVDG0
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new and factory sealed. Ready to be posted from the UK.
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 Heavenly Hellboy. September 13, 2008
D. Wright (Scotland)
If you were to guess a Christian theology graduate's favourite post-LOTR fantasy movie you wouldn't pick the big red monkey would you? Great action, cool villians plus a great cocktail of puppetry, physical effects and CGI create a memorable tale of charm and style. Add to this a great suite of extras and it becomes a classic DVD.
Many of you won't give a damn about my religious views (and quite right too) my point is this: despite my convictions I loved this movie. But bear with me when I say Hellboy has an understanding of the role of a hero that makes a pleasant change from the nihilism of Spidey, Bats or even Bond. Hellboy doesn't revel in violence; in fact it bores him- he'd rather try to reason with his foes and draws not an ounce of pleasure from his fights, really he sees his role as a super-powered pest-controller. He merely does what necessary to save the day. Ron Perlman gives a great performance giving Hellboy a poignancy, dignity and intensity that means we ignore his appearance and sympathise with his loneliness.
Profound but not preachy, thrilling but not inane - simply great.
Move over Marvel...here comes Hellboy! August 24, 2008
Ghost of Kai (Wales, UK)
What other comic book movie has a 6 foot tall, beer drinking hellboy with a weakness for cats in it!? Only this one apparently...
Having seen this film in 2004 when it came out in the cinemas I had never heard of Hellboy or Mike Mignola at that point. Now 4 years later, having got it on DVD finally my love for the sexy, horned devil has come back to life!
Ron Perlman is perfectly cast as the cigar smoking Hellboy. I can't imagine anyone else playing him. Even under those layers of make-up Perlman still manages to convey Hellboy's emotions so well through his body language and his eyes. Hellboy has a sense of humour that is unique to him. He always has a way of sounding like he's seen it all before but that's what makes him so appealing...
"Hellboy" has so many brilliant things about it, I'm really not sure where to begin...
~ a sense of humour all it's own
~ a bulk of fantastic action scenes that really come into their own with the soundtrack by Marco Beltrami
~ wonderful cast and crew
What more can I say...when you put Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt into a movie and get a genius like Guillemo Del Torro to direct it...you get a truely brilliant bit of film!
Love every minute of it!
This directors cut DVD edition is packed full of extras and is worth it for those extras alone! Buy today and you won't be disappointed.
Hellboy is the one and only sexy devil boy!
Even Satan has a sweet tooth July 26, 2008
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
It's hard to be a freak, even when you have been brought to life by Rasputin, Hitler and a few other crazy humans. But even Satan can fall in love with another freak of his type and even Satan can be attached to the catholic professor who became his father, the one who provided him with candy and sweets, because Satan has a sweet tooth. Satan somewhere is slightly human and a tiny bit catholic. A cross may burn his palm but when it has been served to him for sixty years by a benevolent old man who he considers his father he may start to like it, to love him and then to hate those who are on the other side. Don't expect any kind of deep emotional feelings though but expect some beautiful special effects that look so realistic that they will make you thrill and shiver. And what's more they will be exotic and lead you to rainy New York City and snowy Moscow and underground everywhere, in the NYC subway or in some Russian cemetery. You will meet with dead people who are revived and then can lead you to the very center of hell, or with surgical fetishists who have recomposed their bodies bone by bone and muscle by muscle. But the most attractive element is in the use of fire, the fascination with fire and that has to do with the constant reference to the apocalypse, that of the Book of Revelation of course? Fire seen as the ultimate cleansing element that can bring the universe to its end or destroy up all evil from earth. The ambivalence of this fire is fairly surprising in many ways since most people are afraid of fire and here it is the ultimate redeeming element. It is true when you are surrounded by meters of snow and tons of ice you are grateful for one little small fire in the living room hearth. And be satisfied: the FBI director who is in charge will end up locked up underground to die peacefully, at least deep enough for no one to be pestered by his protest and yelling.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
In the absence of light, darkness prevails June 28, 2008
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
While some good directors never quite "get it," it took Guillermo Del Toro only one misfire -- the icky, slow-paced "Blade 2" -- to get the whole comic-book adaptation thing right.
In fact, just about everything is right with "Hellboy" -- Del Toro crafted an action blockbuster with a grimy, slimy cult-movie feel and a quirky sense of humor. It's graced with excellent acting, spectacular action scenes, and the trappings of clockpunk and Lovecraftian horror -- not to mention that it stars a six-foot-tall scarlet demon with a soft spot for kittens.
In 1944, young Professor Broom accompanied an army regiment to a remote Scottish island, where the Nazis -- led by Rasputin -- were about to open a portal to another world, and allow the vast tentacled Ogru Jahad (Seven Gods of Chaos) to enter our world. Rasputin and the Nazis were destroyed, but something came through the portal -- a baby demon, whom Broom names Hellboy.
Fast-forward sixty years -- a grown Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and his fishy friend Abe (Doug Jones) are working at a paranormal government agency that specializes in policing the supernatural, with the weirded-out Agent Myers (Rupert Evans) just joining the team. Soon afterwards, Hellboy is called on to kill Sammael the Hellhound -- but it turns out that Sammael can replicate himself indefinitely.
As Hellboy and his team try to hunt down the remaining Sammaels, the dying Professor Broom (John Hurt) finds that a revived Rasputin and his immortal Nazi followers have orchestrated all this. And Rasputin is continuing to pull the strings behind the scenes -- including using Hellboy's love Liz (Selma Blair), a depressed pyrokinetic. And when Hellboy suffers a devastating loss, his journey will take him right back to his roots -- and the potential destruction of the world.
Watching "Hellboy," it's easy to see how Guillermo Del Toro because world-famous for the exquisitely dark "Pan's Labyrinth," and why he's been chosen to direct the forthcoming "Hobbit" movies. This adaptation could have just been another paint-by-numbers comic-book story, but Del Toro gives it the kind of grime, quirk, brains and heart that a lasting cult movie should have.
Part of that cult appeal is "Hellboy's" distinctive look, with Lovecraftian tentacle-gods and some steampunky details. And the action scenes are pretty spectacular -- trains, slimy hellhounds, sword-swinging Nazis with chopped-up faces, giant clock cogs, and a fiery explosion in a mental asylum. And there are some truly spectacular action scenes in a vast underground labyrinth, full of ancient hammers and collapsing bridges. There's just enough action and grossness, without going overboard.
But Del Toro is able to balance out the action with some truly touching moments, such as the aged Broom's final scenes in his firelit study. And there's a lot of dark humor here as well -- and not all of it is Hellboy's dry one-liners. The movie is liberally peppered with dark humor moments ("1945, you mean. Hitler died in '45." "DID he now?"), including some hilariously macabre scenes involving a bad-tempered Russian zombie ("This is Ivan Klimatovich. Say hi, Ivan." "Go that way, Red Monkey!").
Most importantly, Del Toro is able to give his characters little human quirks -- hair plugs, love of cats, and Hellboy sanding down his horns in the morning. Perlman is simply amazing as "Red," whose gruff scarlet exterior hides a kindly, affectionate heart. Not many actors could emote through that many prosthetics (including a very lifelike tail), but Perlman makes it look natural.
Though he's playing a ninetyish old professor, Hurt plays his role with a quiet, powerful sense of goodness. Jones and Evans also do excellent jobs, one as an erudite psychic fish-man ("We lead a charmed life," he observes as cockroaches skitter around him) and an earnest young agent. Selma Blair is the one downside -- she sort of mumbles in a monotone most of the time.
"Hellboy" is one of the best comic-book adaptations that Hollywood has turned out, primarily because of the darker, eerier aesthetic Guillermo Del Toro brings to it. Definitely a must-see.
NOT YOUR USUAL COMIC INSPIRED MOVIE April 6, 2008
Mr. M. W. Lane (Manchester, UK)
A GREAT FILM IN IT'S OWN RIGHT. A DARK AND GRITTY COMIC BOOK HERO ADAPTATION WITH A SOLID PRODUCTION.
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