{"id":2820,"date":"2009-08-09T17:36:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2009-08-09T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:36:46","slug":"hellboy-2-the-golden-army-2008-guillermo-del-toro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2820","title":{"rendered":"Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008, Guillermo del Toro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, this opened last July and <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/date\/2008\/07\">apparently<\/a> I was too busy watching classic Hollywood comedies, french auteur cinema, documentaries and <a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/597\">Wall*E<\/a> to go see it.  Also I wasn&#8217;t so wowed by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/264\">Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth<\/a><\/em> and I figured an action-comedy sequel could only be worse than that.  Turns out it&#8217;s a very good action-comedy sequel.  I should&#8217;ve guessed.  Anyway, looked great in high-def.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/hellboy202.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>I guess Hellboy was dating fire woman Selma Blair in the first one &#8211; I barely remember the movie even though I&#8217;ve seen it twice.  Anyway she&#8217;s pregnant in this one with twin fire demons, but that&#8217;s hardly discussed because we are busy being introduced to, then figuring out how to kill, various wonderful creatures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/hellboy206.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Also Doug &#8220;Silver Surfer&#8221; Jones is back as Abe the aquatic poetry-reading scientist psychic fellow, Jeffrey Tambor as the comic relief operations manager, and introducing the voice of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane as the ectoplasmic being encased in a steamy glass-topped robot suit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/hellboy205.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>This time the crew goes to Ireland (actually filmed in Budapest) to fight some <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> holdovers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/hellboy203.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>They win at the end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/hellboy204.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Did I mention John Hurt appears in the intro?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/hellboy201.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see, this opened last July and apparently I was too busy watching classic Hollywood comedies, french auteur cinema, documentaries and Wall*E to go see it. Also I wasn&#8217;t so wowed by Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth and I figured an action-comedy sequel could only be worse than that. Turns out it&#8217;s a very good action-comedy sequel. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[909,129,220,56,181],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-hungary","tag-ireland","tag-ron-perlman","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}