Comments on: The Right Hand of Doom http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/07/the-right-hand-of-doom/ Chuck Jordan's Personal Weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:08:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mac http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2008/07/the-right-hand-of-doom/#comment-13347 Mac Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:59:25 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/?p=781#comment-13347 I think the problem with Del Toro's interpretation is that he gets everything about Hellboy except Hellboy himself. He's supposed to be a semi-tragic figure, always wrestling with the knowledge that he only exists because he was created to destroy the world he's trying to save. Del Toro has reduced him to comic relief in his own movie: a whiny, immature jerk who can't think of any solution more clever than, "Hit it really hard." Worse, the second movie (and Abe Sapien in particular) has come down with a serious case of Idiot Plot. If they'd just melted down the third piece of the crown as soon as Princess Albino showed up at BPRD headquarters, they could have all gone to bed early. I think the problem with Del Toro’s interpretation is that he gets everything about Hellboy except Hellboy himself. He’s supposed to be a semi-tragic figure, always wrestling with the knowledge that he only exists because he was created to destroy the world he’s trying to save. Del Toro has reduced him to comic relief in his own movie: a whiny, immature jerk who can’t think of any solution more clever than, “Hit it really hard.”

Worse, the second movie (and Abe Sapien in particular) has come down with a serious case of Idiot Plot. If they’d just melted down the third piece of the crown as soon as Princess Albino showed up at BPRD headquarters, they could have all gone to bed early.

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