 | 映画原題: Hellboy [ 映画邦題: ヘルボーイ] : 話題注目作劇場公開映画 |  | |  |  | |  | Hellboy : Hollywood Cinema Director : シネマ作品監督紹介 | | Hellboy : Actor [CAST・CREW] : アクター・アクトレス(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 | | Hellboy : 本国映画ライターによる映画の内容 with イングリッシュ : English Description of Story |  |  |  |  | Amazon.com:In the ongoing deluge of comic-book adaptations, Hellboy ranks well above average. Having turned down an offer to helm Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in favor of bringing Hellboy's origin story to the big screen, the gifted Mexican director Guillermo del Toro compensates for the excesses of Blade II with a moodily effective, consistently entertaining action-packed fantasy, beginning in 1944 when the mad monk Rasputin--in cahoots with occult-buff Hitler and his Nazi thugs--opens a transdimensional portal through which a baby demon emerges, capable of destroying the world with his powers. Instead, the aptly named Hellboy is raised by the benevolent Prof. Bloom, founder of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, whose allied forces enlist the adult Hellboy (Ron Perlman, perfectly cast) to battle evil at every turn. While nursing a melancholy love for the comely firestarter Liz (Selma Blair), Hellboy files his demonic horns ("to fit in," says Bloom) and wreaks havoc on the bad guys. The action is occasionally routine (the movie suffers when compared to the similar X-Men blockbusters), but del Toro and Perlman have honored Mike Mignola's original Dark Horse comics with a lavish and loyal interpretation, retaining the amusing and sympathetic quirks of character that made the comic-book Hellboy a pop-culture original. He's red as a lobster, puffs stogies like Groucho Marx, and fights the good fight with a kind but troubled heart. What's not to like? --Jeff Shannon |  |  |  |  | | | | | Hellboy : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation | | | | |  Stunning / 2005-12-25
I can't wait for the sequel. It's films like this that keep Comic-book films going! | | | | | | | | | | | | Cigar Chomping Brilliance / 2005-11-08
As Spiderman 2 slowly faded away from our cinemas, Hellboy has come to take his place with cigar chomping vengeance. While Peter Parker hid behind a mask and fought evil, Hellboy was born evil. He ground down the stubs of his horns in a futile attempt to look more or less human.
Underneath all the make up and prosthetics Hellboy is Ron Perlman. In Blade II and Alien: Resurrection he played kick ass bad boys who did good deeds when it was in their interest. Now he is the star of the film, given a great script and enough screen time to somehow express the vulnerable side of a monster far worse then anything he has played before.
Hellboy was born in 1944 on a barren Scottish island, which just happened to be a crossroad into a hell dimension. Lead by none other then Rasputin (Karel Roden), the Nazis try to unlock hell. Only to be stopped by Professor Broom (John Hurt), and a bunch of cigar chomping American soldiers. Hellboy is then found by Broom, who raises him to be an agent of the super secret FBI Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.
Almost from the start of the film, this means Hellboy fights creatures, which are bigger, meaner and even more ugly then himself. He seems to relish these visually fantastic CGI (Computer Generated Image) encounters, which are shot like lovingly detailed tiles in a comic book. His giant stone right hand, super strength and intellect mean Hellboy usually ends up winning, but as you soon work out, its the battle with his destiny that is soon going to be the biggest problem the world has to face.
Hellboy is according to Rasputin the demon whose destiny it is to bring forth the destruction of humanity. In a way Hellboy knows this, and it helps explain his self-loathing. Although even then, in his monster suit, Perlman at times shows a surprisingly sweet gentleness. His love of kittens, and especially fire starting babe Liz Sherman (Selma Blair.)
Like in a comic book, the other characters are only really seen in their relationships with the hero. So along with Blair, the centuries old fish man Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), and new team member FBI agent Joe Myers (Rupert Evans) don't develop in their own rights.
Del Toro has carried across the dark, articulate visual language of this comic book into his film. It works because of his attention to detail, and what this communicates to the audience. Walking out of the cinema, I felt I'd read a comic, not seen the film. I think this is the effect he wants it to have on us.
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***1/2
Based on the works of Mike Mignola, "Hellboy," written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro, is a better-than-average comic book adaptation that boasts a refreshing sense of humor amid all the customary action sequences and first-rate special effects. The story begins in 1944, near the end of World War II, with the Nazis attempting to open a portal between earth and a hell-like dimension where seven evil deities have been lying in wait for just such an opportunity to come in and take over the world. One creature from the other side makes it through before the Nazis` scheme is thwarted, a young "boy" who is adopted by an American expert in the paranormal and groomed to become a superhero who can do battle with all the supernatural creatures who apparently exist in an abundance undreamed of by the vast majority of the human race.
The makers of the film have wisely chosen to keep Hellboy life-sized and believable in both his physical and psychological dimensions. Despite his red skin, stone right hand and ability to leap from rooftop to rooftop with gravity-defying ease, Hellboy is really just an Average Joe-type, with a bit of an ego, a sardonic sense of humor, a strong sense of loyalty, and a really good heart. Heck, he even has problems in the romance department not much different from what all the rest of us go through at one time or another in our lives.
The movie is overlong and the screenplay probably includes one or two monsters more than it needs to in order to get the job done, but Ron Perlman, even under all the heavy makeup, makes Hellboy a three-dimensional, sympathetic character, while John Hurt brings warmth and authority to the role of Professor Bruttenholm, the "father figure" who raises him. | | | | | | | | | | | | Hell Boy: Recommended - great special effects! / 2005-09-16
Hell Boy was born in hell, but is that the end of it?
Can it be that it's not how a person begins their existence,
but how they choose to end it that makes the difference.
Fantastic special effects. Does Hell Boy become a Christian?
Watch and see...
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The best comic-based movie i've seen; unlike its predecessors this one's consistent and away from hero's cliches. Funny & intelligent. Gracias Memo paisano! | | | | | | | | ご利用のウェブブラウザがFirefoxの場合、ここに新たな映画情報が表示されます。 もし、どんな情報が表示されているか知りたい方は下のバーナーから、Google ツールバーを搭載したFirefoxをダウンロードし、インストールして見て下さい。 インターネット・エクスプローラ：Internet Explorer（IE）より、インタネット・ウイルスやアドウェアやスパイウェア等の セキュリティ面でIEより安全で、ポップアップ広告をブロックする機能、RSSフィードが読み込める機能や、ページ検索のハイライト機能、GoogleやAmazonなどの検索機能が利用できる統合検索機能などが備わっている インターネットブラウザＦｉｒｅｆｏｘを使用することを推奨します。 サイトとウェブ・ブラウザについて：このウェブサイトはWebブラウザFirefoxによって最適化されています。
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映画化のブームが続くアメリカン・コミックスから生まれた、異形のヒーローによるアクション。第二次大戦中、魔界から呼びよせられた「ヘルボーイ」が、アメリカの超常現象調査/防衛局で働く。鬼のような角が生え、自在に尻尾を動かす怪力自慢のヘルボーイが、現代のニューヨークに現れた“死の天使”サマエルと対決。半魚人のような水棲人間や、肉体を自然発火させるヒロインなどユニークな能力を持つキャラが登場し、ヘルボーイの内面ドラマも描かれる。
荒唐無稽なストーリーだが、最後まで見ごたえ十分なのは、映像センスと重量感のあるアクション場面のおかげだろう。監督は、メキシコ出身で、ハリウッドでは『ブレイド2』なども手がけたギレルモ・デル・トロ。増殖を繰り返すクリーチャーのリアルな粘着感や、折った角の手入れなどヘルボーイの日常行動も丁寧に映像化。細部まで怠らない描写によって、ニューヨークの地下鉄やロシアの迷宮を背景にしたバトル、人間と魔界サイドの板挟みになるヘルボーイの苦悩が説得力を持つことになるのだ。ヘルボーイ役のロン・パールマンは、特殊メイクをしているとはいえ、素顔そのままの適役。なかなか日本では人気の出ないタイプのヒーロー映画だが、騙されたと思って観てもらいたい。（斉藤博昭）
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