Phil and Emily are joined by entertainment journalist, critic, and editor Amelia Emberwing to wrap up their Guillermo del Toro mini series with Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Ron Perlman's red-skinned demon (with Selma Blair and Doug Jones as Liz and Abe) goes up against an elven prince (Luke Goss) who wants to wake an unstoppable mechanical army and end the truce between humans and everything that lives in the shadows. It's bigger, stranger, and a lot more crowded with trolls, fairies, and tooth-hungry swarms than the first one, and it opened right into The Dark Knight.
The three dig into why these movies feel like a Hellboy comic instead of a Marvel or DC film, David Hyde Pierce as the voice of Abe Sapien (and what that says about Frasier fanfic), Luke Goss, the changing voice of Johann Krauss, and the one story beat they can't quite buy. VFX houses, wrestling, and a Lord of the Rings tangent all make an appearance. There's a real case here for reading The Golden Army as del Toro finally making it up to Abe Sapien. Loud, tender, and a little goofy same as the movie.
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