I liked the movie, I like the comic -- why not try the animated version? Done is a stylized, pseudo-anime style which seems to work despite sometimes spotty animation, this tells a story that has some inspiration from the comics but then wanders off in its own direction.
Hellboy, Liz and Abe are dispatched to Japan, where a priceless exhibit has been damaged and a historian is missing. Hellboy soon wanders off to follow a strange, magical fox (like that's ever a good idea) and ends up trapped somewhere in time.
So we get a huge chunk of Red wandering through various Japanese myths and beating them up.
It's fun, and the writers obviously did some research into Japanese mythology. But it didn't have the snappy charm of other versions of Hellboy, and there were almost no quotable lines. So it just felt like it was missing something. I don't know what, but it wasn't there.
The voice acting is mostly pretty darn good -- they got Ron Perlman to do Hellboy, and that's all that really matters. But dang -- does Phil LaMarr have to do 30 voices in *every* animated production these days?
Worth watching, and I'm not disappointed that we bought the DVD. But not a must-see.
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