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In 517 A.D., the evil Blood Queen, Vivienne Nimue, unleashes a plague on England until King Arthur thwarts her with the aid of Ganeida, a member of her coven. Arthur uses Excalibur to dismember Nimue and hides her remains across England. In present-day Tijuana, Mexico, paranormal investigator Hellboy accidentally kills missing agent Esteban Ruiz, who has been transformed into a vampire, during a wrestling match. After hearing Ruiz's dying words, prophesying that the end is coming, Hellboy is brought back to the BPRD in Colorado. He is assigned by B.P.R.D. leader Trevor Bruttenholm, his adoptive human father, to assist the Osiris Club in hunting three giants in Great Britain. The club's seer, Lady Hatton, reveals Bruttenholm was meant to kill Hellboy when he came into the human world as a result of the Nazis' Project Ragna Rok but instead raised him. Meanwhile, a pig-like fairy known as Gruagach is advised by the witch Baba Yaga to retrieve Nimue's limbs so that she may grant his wish for revenge against Hellboy.

During the hunt, Hellboy is betrayed and nearly killed by the hunters before they are ambushed by the giants. Hellboy fights and kills the giants until he collapses from exhaustion, only to be rescued by a young woman. He awakens in her flat, recognizing her as Alice Monaghan, a medium he once rescued from fairies as a baby. Sending an SO19 team to retrieve Hellboy, Bruttenholm introduces Hellboy to M11 agent Ben Daimio and relays that Nimue's remains have been taken, and the last piece is stored at the Osiris Club. Finding the club slain, Alice channels Hatton's spirit, who reveals that Nimue seeks Hellboy to cause the apocalypse. Nimue's arm is taken by Gruagach, and Nimue distracts Hellboy by appealing to his frustrations, allowing Gruagach to escape. Hellboy reveals that Gruagach is a changeling who took baby Alice's place before Hellboy branded him with iron and forced him to return Alice, which led to Gruagach hating Hellboy for taking his chance to be human.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy_(2019_film)

I haven't seen the new one, but I liked both of the old ones.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Hellboy ( the author ) actually did work on Disneys "Atlantis" ( I think he designed the vehicles and possible character stuff ). He went to Disney and talked about making his comic ( which already had a game and was gaining some attention ) into a movie. Disney was like "your material does not fit our image" so they directed him towards another studio.

The first two movies, was awesome was grand and great. I loved every inch of it. Problem is that it was too rushed but did it's job as a movie ( like Frakenhooker-Robocop ). The second movie kinda went down hill from there. It was more like a reboot then an actually continuation. It felt rushed. I mention robocop, it kinda had the same problems Robocop started to have with 2-3-4. Everybody wanted a piece of it, and because everyone loved it, thus was censored over time. That being said Robocop 2 was the apex, three was just a cherry on top. In my opinion the TV series ( non animated ) was as good as it ever could be. They had reasonable scenarios and events.

That is what happen to Hellboy. They probably needed funded and wanted to rewrite a whole bunch of things. I took a look at a few screens, in my opinion it does not feel like the movies I watched, at all.

It is the same problem with TNMNT 1-2-3. The first movie was an intro to the series and plot, the second movie gave us that traditional Dr. Wily revenge scenario. The finally movie literally jump the shark.

This Hellboy made it seemed like Robocop 4. Where he was utterly useless and they made a mockery of Hellboy. It is like like Terminator 3, or Total Recall remake, or the new Conan not staring or featuring Arnie ( or one of his sons ),

Hellboy ( in my opinion ) is in national lampoons status. What the Starving games is to the hunger games. It is like what the ghostbusters with the stereotypical lunch ladies are instead of badarsery with Kyle from Ghostbusters Extreme. A complete farce.

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That is my opinion so far. I was happy the first time for both movies. I loved them both. The third movie and it's "rebooting" status just turned me off from it.