I really enjoyed the ambition and confidence of this second dose of Del Toro’s Hellboy. It takes a little while to get into, as the world is so complete and mesmerising the first twenty minutes are quite disorienting.

The performance of Ron Perlman under epic red prosthetics is the heart of the movie, and the very human story of it’s non-human heroes never gets lost in the epic scope and fantastical creatures that inhabit the movie. Small note should be made of the tooth fairy attack early in the film: utterly creepy in the best possible way, reminding me of the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.