This was by far a better effort than the original movie. Not only did it have greater character development of Hellboy himself but it let some of the other characters grow (but not too much). I give it four out of five stars. Great foreshadowing of possible future events. David Hyde Pierce is not in the movie. Doug Jones does the voice for Abe Sapien.
It was exactly the movie it set out to be. Not horrible but not Ironman either. Nothing mind blowing here.
Ed gives a good performance but he should stick to non-action flicks. He's much better at them. Liv Tyler without elf ears was refreshing but she needs to work on her voice acting.
The special effects were very cool. Definitely an improvement over the previous attempt at a Hulk movie. The big battle at the end seemed to just end abruptly. Not really sure what happened to make the bad guy quit fighting.
The continued tie-in to Ironman and other potential movies is brilliant. I'm not enough of a comic book fan to have caught them all but clearly Marvel has something special in mind.