Hellboy 2 review [Archive] - Audioholics Home Theater Forums

3db

12-03-2008, 08:36 AM

I watched Helboy 2 last Fridy night on standard DVD and this is one of those rare occasions where I thought the sequel is better thna the original. The characters seemed to be fleshed out a little more in this one. The humour is the same off the cough as the first but there's more of it.

The effects were good and the soundtrack was OK I think. I qualify the "OK" because I was listening to it at night using standard compression ( I also have a max compression on my receiver as well) and I now it limits the bass impact. The surrounds as far as I rememeber were there but it didn't leave me enveloped with sound say like "Master & Commander" or U571.

Its a light hearted movie made to entertain and in that respect it succeeded. :)

j_garcia

12-03-2008, 11:51 AM

There's already a thread on this movie. I can't possibly see how you can say this was better than the first?? I felt I wasted my money seeing it in the theater.

3db

12-03-2008, 12:13 PM

There's already a thread on this movie. I can't possibly see how you can say this was better than the first?? I felt I wasted my money seeing it in the theater.

Its all subjective...;)

I went back three pages and didn't see a review of it

j_garcia

12-03-2008, 12:56 PM

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45801&highlight=hellboy

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49324&highlight=hellboy

Del Toro has set expectations for good films and this one fell short.

3db

12-03-2008, 01:44 PM

darien87

12-03-2008, 02:31 PM

Sorry John, but I gotta agree with 3db on this one. I actually liked this one better than the first. It didn't bother me that there wasn't any character development. I really dug the elf characters.

j_garcia

12-03-2008, 05:15 PM

I liked the villian also. The cinematography was good as well, but the story was just total crap IMO.