The movie starts in 517 AD, then goes to
modern-day Mexico, Colorado, London, the
English countryside and Siberia. The soundtrack
is a bro-fest that includes entries by Mötley
Crüe, Alice Cooper and the songs seem like they
were chosen by junior high kids being a little
too on the nose, like “The Devil You Know” by
X Ambassadors and “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo” by
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
We meet the ancient Russian witch Baba Yaga,
the evil, Liverpool-accented porcine monster
Gruagach (Stephen Graham), Hellboy’s adoptive
father (Ian McShane), the Queen of Blood (Milla
Jovovich), the wizard Merlin and King Arthur
(no, seriously), a young cool woman with powers
named Alice (Sasha Lane), a cool older sorceress
(Sophie Okonedo) and a fellow agent-monster
played by Daniel Dae Kim with a pretty terrible
British accent.