Hellboy II: The Golden Army [Blu-ray]

Interesting movie. Would have liked to have seen Hellboy 1
Good special effects and sound. Made me laugh and feel sad at times.
Very good intertainment for the family (no one under 15 here)

Hellboy 2 is a very entertaining movie. The detail on BR is fantastic. Make sure your Blue Ray player has the latest software revision or this disk may not play.

Warning to those with older Receivers. This Blu-ray disk only has a DTS audio soundtrack in English. If you have a Receiver, like I do, that only decodes Dolby Digital 5.1, there is no audio output.

The rest of this review is for the clueless producers of this Blu-ray disk. Obviously they have learned nothing from the costly lost sales of the war with HD-DVD. People like me are not going to buy an expensive new Receiver just to play a particular movie on Blu-ray. Especially with six audio formats to cover and perhaps more to come! I will rent this movie on DVD and wait for the audio wars to end. Since Blu-ray has plenty of capacity, I do not see any reason why an English Dolby 5.1 soundtrack could not be included to ensure backwards compatibility. Particularly since Dolby 5.1 is already provided on this disk in other languages. From reading various blogs and reviews, I know I am not the only potential lost sale.

Although we enjoyed the movie, it just wasn't as engaging as the first one. They were sillier in this one, which is fun, but you weren't drawn in as much - sometimes things can be a little too light hearted. I probably would've been happy just to have rented the video rather than add it to my collection or at least just got it as a regular dvd rather than blu ray.

What a let down for Hellboy I fans...This movie totally sucked...Hollywood amazingly turned goth camp into surfer bubblegum for a terminally boring ride.