this awful, disgusting, unfunny, idiotically plotted comic book flick offends the senses as much as the rankest subway car on the hottest summer day; There's nothing funny here, however, except the quality of the CGI animation
the new Hellboy is snarky, gory, and bland; This is a mess that makes no sense; I'm glad expensive movies are R-rated again. But this is the doofiest kind of maturity: boring CGI bloodsprays, F-bombs galore
overbearing, incoherent and unnecessary reboot of the franchise; It's two hours long but feels like an eternity, lurching incoherently from one noisy set-piece to another
Neil Marshall's "Hellboy" is a wellspring of creativity, a major superhero movie made for hardcore R-rated horror fans, overflowing with humor and action and scares
it's really series of violent vignettes strung together, getting more and more outlandish and introducing characters at such a blistering pace that you just want it to stop already
it's lunging to be a badass hard-R epic, but it's basically a pile of origin-story gobbledygook, frenetic and undercooked, full of limb-hacking, eye-gouging monster battles as well as an atmosphere of apocalyptic grunge that signifies next to nothing
in a superhero glut, we don't need this; It's just lousy. Bloated, vastly less funny than it aims to be and misguided in key design choices even when it scores with less important decisions...
by Phil de Semlyen [Time Out New York ]
by Mark Kennedy [Associated Press ]
by Rafer Guzman [Newsday ]
