Hellboy II

[jack]

Hellboy II wasn't as awesome as I'd hoped, but was very good. It did a worthy job of following the original with new stuff, and was often funny, and interesting, and beautifully steampunky.

Nitpicks (spoilers)

However, in the climax, there were several things that just bugged me they didn't try earlier:

* Challenging Nuada's right to command the army. I felt sure they'd cry that as soon as he said "Does anyone challenge my right to command the army?"
* Klaus -- for a moment I thought he was going to take down the entire army one at a time. After all, if he could just take over another robot each time his host is crushed, it wouldn't matter which won.
* How about doping Nuala? Mightn't that knock Nuada right out?
* And once they had cured Hellboy, why didn't they just... go away? Did they just want to beat up Nuada, but Abe wanted to trade the crown piece for Nuala? Well, that's understandable, but we've no reason to think he would deliberately hurt her (although obviously he might).
* Why didn't Liz try nuking the army?
* Why didn't Liz melt the crown piece earlier? (fishpi correctly points out that Nuala might not have let them until Nuada turned up, at which point no-one knew where the piece was except Abe.)

Comments

[minipoppy.livejournal.com]

> * And once they had cured Hellboy, why didn't they just... go away?
That's a complaint that could apply to nearly every film ever! Personally, *I* would have gone home, but these guys are heroes, and have to make good stories. And also, even if they destroyed the golden army Nuada would never stop. Granted it may take longer with tooth fairies and squishy face things, but they still had to stop him.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes sense. But they'd cured Hellboy, they'd defused the golden army. They seemed to have nearly everything they'd set out to do, and they know they can't kill Nuada. Going into the Golden Barracks just seemed asking for lots of trouble :)