Hellboy gets banged up a lot but is somehow able to pick himself up off the mat and repair himself with a little self-applied chiropractic a crunch of his spine, a pop of his shoulders and he's back in action.Ībe the fishboy, who wears a breathing apparatus out of the water, is more of a dreamer than a fighter, with a personality that makes him a distant relative of Jar-Jar Binks. Which he does, of course, in action sequences that seem storyboarded straight off the pages of a comic book. This creature, a writhing, repellent, oozing mass of tentacles and teeth, reproduces by dividing and will soon conquer the Earth unless Hellboy can come to the rescue.
The professor is showing the ropes to young FBI agent Clay ( Corey Johnson) when the Nazis attack a museum and liberate a creature imprisoned inside an ancient statue. In an icy pass in Mondavia, they perform ceremonies to bring Rasputin back from the other side, and they're ready to rumble.Ĭut to a secret FBI headquarters where Hellboy lives with the professor and an aquatic creature named Abe Sapien ( Doug Jones) - a fishboy who got his name because he was born the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Two of his old enemies are inexplicably still the same age, however: a Nazi named Ilsa ( Bridget Hodson) and a weirdo named Kroenen (Ladislav Beran), who is addicted to surgical modifications on his body. The professor, now in his 80s, is told he will die soon.
Meanwhile, the psychic practitioner Grigori Rasputin ( Karel Roden), who is working for the Nazis, is sucked through the portal and disappears. Nothing slips through the portal except a little red baby with horns and a tail he spits and hisses at the professor, who calms him with a Baby Ruth bar, cradles him in his arms and raises him to become mankind's chief warrior against the forces of hell. Bruttenholm ( John Hurt), who is President Roosevelt's personal psychic adviser.
In a desperate scheme late in World War II, they open a portal to the dark side and summon forth the Seven Gods of Chaos - or almost do, before they are thwarted by U.S. The movie, based on comics by Mike Mignola and directed by the Mexican-born horror master Guillermo del Toro (" Cronos," " Blade II"), opens with a scene involving Nazis, those most durable of comic book villains.