Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a sci-fi action film: "Hellboy, part 2, The Golden Army"!
Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care! The film begins with opening remarks about
a secretly adopted strange creature, that the US Army and a team of paranormal researchers
rescued during a classified mission off the coast of Scotland in 19 44,
with a code name "Hellboy". 11 years later, a now an adolescent Hellboy pleads with his father,
the Professor, to read him a bedtime story. It is a story about a legendary war between humans
and all magical living beings in the mystical realm. King Balor, the leader of the elfin race,
commissioned the creation of the "Golden Army," an army of 4900 mechanical soldiers,
to fight humans' infinite greed. The master of goblin blacksmith forges
a magical crown, allowing anyone with royal blood to command the Golden Army. And so,
when another fight with humans occurs, the Golden Army kills all of them with no mercy, and regret
consumes King Balor as he realizes how powerful yet a great mistake he had made. So he calls a
truce, and divides the crown into three pieces; one for the humans and two for himself.
Humans will control the cities, while the elf race owns the forests. However, King Balor's Son,
Nuada, doesn't believe in the promises of a man. So he goes into exile, and vows to
return when his people need him, leaving the Golden Army into an indefinite slumber.
At present, an albino man practices swordsmanship, and reveals himself as Prince Nuada, ready to
return from exile. A monster, Mr. Wink, joins him to be his loyal servant. Simultaneously,
several artifacts, including the humans' crown piece, are getting auctioned. Moments later,
Nuada invades the auction with Mr. Wink; and together, they release
several mysterious creatures to dispose of the humans, before taking the crown's fragment.
Meanwhile, at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense,
Agent Manning shows several photographs of Hellboy in public to Lizard-man, ranting that Hellboy's
ruining their image as a secret organization on purpose, to make his life even more difficult.
Lizard-man explains that Hellboy's hormone-relationship with Liz,
is tense at the moment as any other couple, which may be causing his erratic behavior.
At that moment, Hellboy blasts through the room's wall, as he pisses off his pyrokinetic girlfriend,
Liz, with his laziness and messiness. As Liz calms down to talk with him, the alarm goes
off, postponing their conversation. Later, Manning gives Hellboy a pack of Cuban cigars, in exchange
for him to be extremely discreet, while they go to investigate the incident at the auction house.
As they arrive at the scene, they discover no survivors and bodies from the guests,
not even one. Lizard-man searches with a piece of special equipment to find the cause of the attack,
and finds boxes marked with a Royal Seal, which are only delivered at a time of war.
While investigating, Lizard-man senses that they have company; and soon enough, these companies
start making themselves known. Lizard-man explains that these small-winged creatures
are called "tooth fairies", which feed mostly on calcium, bones, skin, organs, and teeth.
While using his psychic powers to try and find the creatures, Lizard-man accidentally brings his hand
on Liz's tummy, and senses that she's pregnant, shocking her. Suddenly, a swarm of the ravenous
tooth fairies attacks the team, leaving Liz with no choice but to activate her fire powers, to
incinerate the nasty little creatures. Lizard-man hides in the safe upstairs as instructed.
However, the hard-headed Hellboy refuses to hide; so when Liz blasts the room with her fire, he gets
thrown out the window and to the ground, where he shamelessly exposes himself to the public,
the media nonetheless. The crowd goes to Hellboy, which he enjoys; while Manning
becomes more problematic, as the paranormal bureau is officially exposed to the outside world.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wink goes with Nuada, who comes to speak to his father, King Balor. Nuada refuses to
surrender his weapon, and even threatens to kill the guard. Fortunately, his twin sister,
Nuala, stops him from doing so. On the other side, Hellboy happily watches
the news reports about him and the other agents. Hellboy doesn't bother to hide his delight, as
the world now sees him unaware that Liz has taken multiple secret pregnancy tests, all of which are
positive. Liz is pissed off as she hates people staring at her, making her feel like a freak.
Just then, Manning arrives and informs Hellboy that Washington will be sending
a new paranormal-bureau agent due to his latest impulsive actions,
and Hellboy is less than thrilled. Back to Nuada, who finally reunites with his father,
after a long time of vanishing into exile. King Balor is glad to let their truce with
the humans stand, despite the new and not all-so-good progress in human civilization.
However, Nuada doesn't think so, and believes that nothing will feed the humans' greediness, and
they will soon force the mystical creatures into extinction. But Nuala sides with their father, as
she also wants the Golden Army to be asleep. King Balor gives his son one last chance to change
his mind; but Nuada refuses to back down, leaving him with no choice but to condemn death upon him.
Now alone with his plan to do whatever is necessary to make the magical realm safe,
Nuada sorts into violence. Although clearly outnumbered,
Nuada manages to kill his father's guards with his excellent swordsmanship. Then, Nuada slashes
the two remaining guards before stabbing his own father. As King Balor turns into a stone,
Nuada takes the second piece of the crown, while Nuala flees with the third and final piece.
On the other side, everyone awaits at the paranormal bureau for the arrival of their
new agent, Johann, the top man in ectoplasmic research. He's also highly recommended by the
European Liaison, but he has no recorded photos or fingerprints. Moments later, Johann arrives;
and to their shock, he's no human. He's a strange entity in a containment suit, proportioned like a
man holding pure ectoplasmic energy, hence why he's at the top of ectoplasmic research.
The team shows him the remains of one tooth fairy, and the Royal Seal on the boxes.
Johann injects it with a sample of ectoplasmic energy, to temporarily return the creature to
life for them to examine it more. The tooth fairy screams as it comes to life; and although
its communication language is chattering, Johann understands it, and translates what it says.
It turns out, the creature remembers all the troll languages and other commerce sounds.
Johann informs them that the creature came from a legendary Troll Market, a gathering place for
magical creatures. Johann takes the ectoplasmic energy back into his suit, and tells the team
it's rumored that the Troll Market might be located under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Johann takes them there, and gives them special time dilation glasses,
that allow them to see through illusions put out by magical entities. Upon wearing the glasses, the
team uses a magical creature called "fragglewump," who uses a figure of an old woman to blend in.
Johann firmly and repeatedly warns Hellboy not to stop the creature from eating the cats;
but as expected, his stubbornness prompts him to disobey Johann's order.
The team shows the creature a canary; the only thing that scares it, is to force it to lead
them to the right door of the Troll Market. The fragglewump takes them there, and when it refuses
to open the door and insults them, Hellboy throws it at the end of the hallway with one punch.
This pisses Johann; but he walks toward the door instead, and opens it by releasing his
ectoplasmic energy. As they enter, Hellboy cannot hide his delight, as for once in his life,
he doesn't feel like a freak or an outsider. While walking amongst the Market's creatures, Lizard-man
sees a hooded figure wearing the Royal Seal, walking away; so he investigates on his own.
Johann gets informed by some creatures that the tooth fairies are purchased in New Jersey. When he
shows the picture of the Royal Seal, the creatures seem afraid, and tell Johann to leave as they will
not talk. Hellboy appears and punches one of the creatures, making a small commotion. After that,
he moves on with the other who offers to talk, as he doesn't want to be hit by Hellboy anymore.
He informs Hellboy that Prince Nuada purchased the tooth fairies, and his plan to wage war with
the human world. Meanwhile, the hooded figure reveals to be Princess Nuala,
who shows her bracelet marked with Royal Seal to a creature, who gives her a map that King
Balor left for her. The map contains the secret location of the Golden Army.
Just then, Lizard-man comes into the store, where Nuala confronts him, asking if her brother Nuada
sent him to go after her. Nuala places her hand on Lizard-man's, and it turns out she shares the same
psychic powers as him. As they read each other through their hands, Mr. Wink barges in to attack
Nuala. She immediately flees as instructed by Lizard-man, while he stalls Mr. Wink.
Not long after, Hellboy shows up, allowing Lizard-man to flee the scene with Nuala.
After a pretty intense fight, Hellboy proves victorious, as Mr. Wink gets crushed by a
mechanical tool with spikes. Lizard-man returns to the scene with Nuala and Johann, who want
them to leave as soon as possible, as their cover has been blown by Hellboy's ruckus.
Mr. Wink's death immediately spread like wildfire, shocking Nuada. Meanwhile,
Nuala explains to the team that she has the last and final piece of her father's crown, and the
cylinder from the library containing the Golden Army's location. Johann asks for the crown piece;
but Nuala refuses to hand it over, as her father died upholding the truce with the human world.
Johann doesn't want to return to the paranormal bureau with the princess because of the
regulations and procedures. Suddenly, Nuada appears, furious at the loss of his companion,
so he releases a small seed onto the ground and into the sewer water.
Within a matter of seconds, a gigantic, multi-tentacled creature resurfaces from
the ground. Hellboy changes his trademark "Samaritan" pistol, for a gigantic six-barrel
minigun nicknamed "Big Baby." Before the fight escalates, Hellboy first sees a trapped baby in
a car from certain doom. Johann instructs him to shoot the creature in the head, so Hellboy
takes a leap of faith, tosses the infant in the air, and quickly loads his barrel.
Hellboy catches the baby with one hand before shooting the creature twice. As Johann repeatedly
orders him to finish it, Nuada tries to convince Hellboy to keep the creature alive, as it is the
last of its kind. But then, after contemplation, Hellboy finally shoots it in the head.
As the fight ends, the creature releases and spreads its beautifulness on the ground.
Nuada disappears, while the humans taunt and jeer Hellboy for bringing danger to a child.
Liz comes to his side, and explains that Hellboy was just saving them from death. However,
they call Hellboy a freak and throw a stone at his face, prompting Liz to activate her fire.
They return home, where Hellboy asks Liz about the humans' reaction toward him.
Instead of answering that, Liz tells him that she's leaving to think. Hellboy automatically
assumes that he has doomed their relationship, and pleads with her to stay. However, Liz tells
him to think about what he really wants, the world's approval or hers, and walks away.
Meanwhile, Nuala explains to Lizard-man that a link has bound her with Nuada, which means
that Nuada will come after her again, as he knows where they are located through the psychic link.
Nuala then asks him why he vouched for bringing her to the paranormal bureau, and Lizard-man
responds that perhaps a link also connects them. The two tell each other that they haven't met like
one another, before Nuala leaves to sleep, with a smile on her lips from shyness.
Johann confronts Hellboy in the locker, and tells him he must follow his orders.
When Hellboy doesn't listen to him, Johann mentions the Professor, and informs him that
the professor designed his containment suit. This pisses off Hellboy; but Johann's not
afraid of his threats; he's rather confident that he will win if they had to fight.
Johann explains that he can take him, because Hellboy's temper is his one fatal flaw.
Truth be told, he lets his temper get the best of him, proving Johann's point by smashing the helmet
of the containment suit. Johann's ectoplasmic energy gets released, knocking Hellboy out of
his senses. Just as he realizes his mistake, the ectoplasmic energy takes control of the lockers.
It smashes Hellboy several times, and then tells him to control himself.
Later that day, Hellboy goes to Lizard-man's room, after hearing him listen to a collection
of popular love songs. He quickly realizes that Lizard-man has fallen for the princess Nuala,
and the two drink their love problems away, while singing along to the love songs.
At that same time, Nuala feels that Nuada has found her; so she quickly tosses the cylinder and
the parchment into the fire, and hides the crown's last fragment in one of Lizard-man's books.
Back at the two, Lizard-man is on the verge of revealing to Hellboy why Liz has been acting
differently lately, when she suddenly wakes up and stops Lizard-man from revealing her secret.
On the other side, Nuada breaks into the paranormal bureau discreetly, takes the cylinder,
and looks for the crown's fragment. As he does so, Nuala pulls the emergency lever in the room,
alerting every agent. Nuada takes his sister hostage, as Lizard-man and Hellboy come in.
Lizard-man warns Hellboy not to hurt the prince, as Nuala feels his pain. This pisses him off,
as all he can do best is to dodge. Nuada repeatedly asks for the piece;
but Nuala firmly refuses to give it, so he stabs Hellboy with his enchanted spear.
Before he departs with his sister, Nuada instructs Lizard-man to find the piece, and bring it to him
in exchange for Hellboy and Nuala's lives. Despite their best attempt, the spearhead cannot
be removed, as any attempt to pull it out only makes it closer to Hellboy's heart.
Although in pain, Hellboy admits to Liz that she's more important than anything else in his life.
Meanwhile, Lizard-man finds the crown's last piece at last.
Analyzing King Balor's map, the team reads that the Golden Army is located in Northern Ireland.
Liz wants to leave as soon as possible to take Hellboy there to heal him. but Johann and Manning
disagree. They are willing to let Hellboy die to keep the Golden Army from awakening, prompting Liz
to berate Johann's attitude and leadership. Lizard-man keeps the crown's piece to himself,
and joins Liz in taking Hellboy out of there. Johann stops them before they can leave,
and to their surprise, he volunteers to help. He tosses wedding rings to Lizard-man, and explains
that he has lost the woman he loved before, so he will help Liz save the man she loves.
As they arrive in Northern Ireland, a goblin welcomes them, and offers his help to lead
them to the Golden Army, in exchange for the spearhead in Hellboy's chest. The goblin brings
them to a mysterious winged creature, the Angel of Death. The Angel of Death calls them by their
real names as he has been waiting for them. he doesn't care whether Hellboy lives or dies,
but he warns Liz that Hellboy's survival will bring destruction upon Earth.
Despite the warning and the fact that she will suffer more than anyone, Liz chooses Hellboy.
so the Angel of Death removes the spearhead, and instructs her to give Hellboy a reason to live.
Liz emotionally whispers into his ears that he's gonna be a father,
causing him to be awestruck. The goblin interrupts them,
and leads the group to the central chamber of the Golden Army, where Nuada awaits with his hostage.
Lizard-man tosses the crown's last piece to Nuada， despite Nuala and his team's warning,
hoping to free Nuala. However, Nuada wears the crown, and betrays them by awakening the
Golden Army. Despite their valiant effort to stop and kill these mechanical soldiers,
the Golden Army appears unstoppable. Fortunately, Hellboy comes up with an idea,
and challenges Nuada for the right to command the Golden Army. Nuada asserts that Hellboy is
not royalty; but Nuala declares that Hellboy is born of royal blood, the son of the Fallen One,
and thus the challenge must be answered. Nuada answers the challenge by tossing a sword
to Hellboy, while he uses his spearhead. the fight begins between two royalties for
the right to command the Golden Army. The two fight across the entire chamber, with Hellboy
finally gaining the upper hand at one point. However, he refuses to take the prince's life,
as he knows he will kill Nuada's twin sister in that way. Hellboy walks away with the crown,
unaware that the prince has pulled out a knife to stab him from the back. But before he can do so,
Nuada suddenly collapses onto the floor from the excruciating pain in his chest. It turns out,
Nuala has stabbed herself in the heart, in a final and desperate attempt to stop her twin brother
from waging war with the humans once again. With his remaining strength, Nuada asks Hellboy
to choose between his kind and the humans. Meanwhile, Lizard-man rushes to Nuala,
and confesses his hormone feelings for her. she dies without hormone-let-go;
and turns into stone just like her brother. With the twins dead, Liz takes the crown from Hellboy,
and melts it before greediness consumes him. The Golden Army returns to their deep slumber
for eternity as the crown melts. Manning and other paranormal bureau agents have caught up
with Hellboy by this point. Manning demands an explanation; but instead, Hellboy, Liz,
and Lizard-man hand in their belts, resigning from the paranormal bureau.
Hellboy reclaims his "Samaritan" gun. He and Liz get a place of their own to raise the baby. The
film ends with Liz stopping Hellboy and correcting him by holding up two fingers, which means she's
carrying twins. Hellboy can only look in shock and awe, as he doesn't expect that at all.
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