Review: ‘Hellboy II’

Comic-book movies can make it easy to forget why you loved the original comics back in the day. 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' will help you remember. Guillermo del Toro, who won a trio of Oscars for 'Pan's Labyrinth', has a singular approach. As writer and director of Hellboy II, he is almost alone in his ability to re-create on screen the wide-eyed exhilaration and disturbing grotesqueness that is the legacy of comics on the page.

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