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Short version: Hellboy II: The Golden Army stretches beyond the first film in both creepiness and humor, making for kind of an odd mix that manages to work in the end.

Screen Rant reviews Hellboy II

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is great, but like the first one, I don’t think it’s for everyone. The first Hellboy only earned $100MM worldwide, which does not exactly classify it as a (pardon the pun) monster hit. That’s not to say it wasn’t great (it was), it’s just that the world of Hellboy is an odd combination of demons, humor, action and creepiness. Oh, and the hero is a demon.

We’ve got the third and final trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army (aka Hellboy 2) for you below. While the narration on it is kind of cheesy, this film looks to be a visual feast. If it’s anything like the previous one that will just be icing on the cake as we should be getting plenty of cool action and humor to boot.

Unfortunately, with it’s odd combination of creatures from the netherworld, humor and a hero who is basically a demon, I don’t know how well this will do financially. I can tell you that at a screening I attended for another film, the crowd went nuts for the Mummy 3 trailer but was dead silent for this one. No accounting for taste, I suppose.

Today is a good day for posters, first we had the new Spirit poster and now this very cool Hellboy II poster by famed artist Drew Struzan. Poster was scooped by the good folks over at C.H.U.D.

Full thing below…

I realize that to the general public, Hellboy is even less well known than Iron Man. And then we have the story - a demon from Hell, who battles other demons on behalf of mankind.

Doesn’t exactly sound like happy go lucky family entertainment, does it?

I’m here to tell you to set that all aside if you want to see a kick-ass fantasy action movie with plenty of wit, to boot. Check out the trailer below, which is even better than the first one.

Empire Magazine has sent us an image of the cover from their latest issue (larger version down below). It features Ron Perlman as Hellboy as he will appear in Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

Everything I’ve seen so far from this Guillermo Del Toro directed sequel looks really excellent. If the quality is up there with the first film, this is sure to be a great ride.

One thing that has really caught my eye in all the images that have been release so far as well as the trailer is the way the colors really “pop.” I like the exaggerated color scheme of the movie very much, and correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like it will be a departure from the cinematography of the first Hellboy movie which was darker in tone.

The full version of the image above follows after the jump.

Ok, ok… I haven’t given Hellboy 2: The Golden Army any coverage here on Screen Rant…

Although I thought the original film was cool in an offbeat kind of way, I watched it and almost immediately forgot about it (I should probably rent it and see it again). So when word came out about a sequel, I didn’t jump to cover it because frankly, there are a ton of movies coming out and I had enough to write about as it was.

I’m going to make up for that with this post showing new images released by Universal Pictures and the brand spanking new trailer.
Above you can see Ron Perlman as Hellboy himself, with one big honkin’ gun and a few more images follow after the jump.