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Awesome movie.

I was a fan of Iron Man after reading the "Armor Wars". I kept up with it until about the mid 1990's. I was kind of worried Marvel may mess up another series I loved. Namely like The Fantastic Four. But the movie was well done, incredible effects and great story.

I like the fact the story was able to be modernized using our current conflict in place of the Vietnam storyline that started the original.

It is a touch violent and slight suggested sexual references, so I would be wary of taking kids under 13. Though, I definitely hope that their will be sequels. Also, stay through the credits...

When I first heard that Hellboy was coming out, I had also heard it was being made by the same guy who made Blade 2. I was a little less than enthused about seeing Hellboy. I was pleasantly surprised.

After seeing the previews and hearing about how this was a comic book based movie from one of my co-workers, I was a little more interested. Unfortunately, I had never heard of this particular comic, but I am always up for seeing a new comic book based movie. Then it probably helped that it had a few "names" in the cast list too.

Then I saw the actual movie. The story was a little weird at first, but keeping in mind it was a comic book, it was easy to maintain that sense of the story. The story was entertaining, the action scenes were good, the occasional comic relief mainly in one scene in particular was cute too. Overall, it was really good. My only complaint would be that he special effects were decent, but not spectacular.

Since I have never read the comic for this series, I don;t know how true to the story it was, but as a movie, I thought it was pretty good. I'd recommend this movie if you have already seen the bigger budget Spiderman, X-Men and Superman movies and you are looking for something fresh.