I will offend most of my nerdy friends when I say that I liked this sequel to 2004’s Hellboy much better than the original.  I thought the characters were more relatable and the story better balanced.  Unlike the first Hellboy, Hellboy II’s antagonists are sympathetic to the point where you would side with them if they weren’t trying to wipe out humanity.  The scenery is beautiful and the creatures well designed.  The acting is tolerable from the leads, and pretty decent from everyone else.

The extras on the special edition DVD are pretty decent.  It comes with the typical commentary with director Guillermo Del Toro, Jeffrey Tambor, Selma Blair and Luke Goss.  There are depressingly few deleted scenes (commentary with Del Toro), a prologue to the movie, a digital script, image gallery, a "Puppet Theatre" with the initial sequences of the film, concept art, interviews, etc. There are also quite a few “making of” featurettes: seven mini-documentaries that visit the set, the Troll Market Tour, and the two-hour Hellboy: In Service Of The Demon. If you are into movie-making and/or Hellboy specifically, you can find out a lot about this movie through these extras.