We (I) rented HellBoy yesterday because I’m always intrigued by adaptations of comic books into movies. This one generally was good, plus it had incredibly good special effects that were rather lifelike and not feeling too ‘digitized.’ The storyline was not too ‘blow the crap out of anything you can as often as you can’ and it had some unique and fun characters. The villains were incredibly cool in that the characters were all from the past and were involved with (surprise) some sort of magic – Rasputin being one of them.

What was really odd was the intertwining of spiritual things with physical things. The concept of resurrection is just blown out of the water as this one creature keeps resurrecting, but the resurrected creature keeps splitting up. Once splitting and spreading the now multiple creatures are wiped out at once to stop them from spreading. So the resurrection is quite different from a biblical definition.

Hellboy being a demon is also, um, theologically different. However, in the end I discovered one important thing: it was a fictional movie. Satanism was not pushed or the occult glorified. However, a demon was presented as having good character.

Oh, well. It was a fun movie, but Jessica didnt’ like the ending – she said it was too open ended. Sequels abound 🙂