Hellboy II- The Golden Army

Once all creatures on earth lived under the big tree Eden. But men has been created with a hole in his heart that no possession, no power could fill. After a huge battle between men and magical beings the surface of the earth was covered with gobblins, orks, elves and other creatures. The king of the elves was desperate. Then the blacksmith-master of the gobblins offered to the king to build him an army that knows no hunger and could never be stopped. King Balor agreed. The blacksmith also built a golden crown to command „the golden army“. The army was as terrible as the gobblin had said, many men had to dy and again the earth was covered with corpes. King Balor was filled with grief of what he had done, so he devided the crown into three parts, two for himself and one for the humans. They made a contract, the forest would be the place where the magical beings would live, the rest was where the humans would live. But prince Nuada, king Balor´s son, could not believe in this contract and went into exile until his people would need him. And that day he decided is just at that point, when the humans want to auction the third part of the golden crown. His plan is to awaken the golden army to clear the world of the humans. At this point Hellboy is on his way, trying to stop the elve, fighting for humans that are afraid of him and don´t accept him. This movie is definitaly a „must see“. After „Pan´s Labyrinth“ I adore Guillermo del Toro anyway. I like so very much what creatures and characters he creates, and even though this story has many humorous moments, it has even more tragic ones. First Hellboy, a deamon who wishes nothing more but to be accepted as a human amongs humans, but has to experience one time after another the impossibility of his dream. Then prince Nuada, in whose face the despair is engraved, who is so desperate and full of anger. (By the way in my opinion Guillermo des Toro did the elves the best in comparisson to other movies. ) He is fast, strong, elegant, smooth, cruel and dangerous. And I remember the scene where Hellboy kills the forest god, the last of its kind, but he does not feel good. And he did it for the humans. A very sad scene I find, and very beautiful when the god dies. I could go on and on, how Hellboy and Abe (Hellboys college who is some fish-species) sit drunk in the library listening to the most popular love songs. And the troll market is full of wonderful creatures, man, I love this film. It´great.