Hysterical description of Liz:

[walking_napalm]

From the New York Times review of Hellboy:

Liz has pyro-telekinetic abilities she can barely control, not to mention another fiery-red power she cannot contain: Hellboy, whose crush on her is as mountainous as his appetite. (Ms. Blair's heavy-lidded eyes seem to be at half mast from some lovely lewd fantasy. With her sleepy carnality and dry, hesitant timing, she is a superb foil for Mr. Perlman's plain-spoken bravado. If you look like Hellboy, why hide anything?)

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[joellehart.livejournal.com]

My rofl-copter goes swaswaswa....

Can you direct me to the rest of this review? I was out of the country for all of 2004, so I never knew that Hellboy existed until last summer (and yet, somehow I managed to read articles on "van Helsing" and see the stupid thing...dubbed into french... TWICE)... I've been curious about how it was portrayed/received the first go-around.

[walking_napalm]

I didn't see the movie til last summer either, but I read every review I could get my hands on through Rotten Tomatoes. That Times review in particular was (A) hysterical and (B) my favorite of the bunch; that's here.

[joellehart.livejournal.com]

Thanks much for the link! I just got around to reading it (busy week) -- thanks, that was priceless! I'm not sure how much I would have appreciated it if I'd read it before the movie, but it's pretty good after the fact... even if it feels like the reviewer kind of just likes hearing himself talk (maybe that's why it's so funny).

Two gripes: one, he says that the Right Hand of Doom is on the left hand! Some errors are beyond nitpicky... it's like when the Washington Post noted that Golden Army was #1 this past summer by referring to a "cuddly mutant". ..."mutant?" Wrong movie, dudes. "Cuddly" is also debatable.

Second, I kind of wish people would stop saying "ZOMG he's RED!" Yes... can we move on? But I have to say, comparing him to a Twizzler got a laugh out of me... though it's still not as good as the review in the Onion, that said he was "the color of tandoori chicken". That same review (it was audio, I think), referred to him as "The ALF of Satanic ex-pats".