Yeah, it is fun - I will put in a warning, though: There is a fairly creepy scene early on which involves swarms of little magical flying faerie carnivores, who attack our heroes. Two of the redshirts die, and though it's largely in quick editing cuts, there are one or two shots (maybe 2-7 seconds, which can be long for visuals) that are less than pleasant. Gavi's a young teen at this point (is my ancient and doddering memory correct?) so I don't think it should worry her, but I figured I'd put that out there as a point of information.

You might want to talk to them about what they think of fantasy novels, and about what they find unnerving (I'd never ask a 12 year old boy what he finds frightening, because I'm not sure he'd want to admit to being afraid of anything, but "unnerve" is something else again.)

I also need to emphasize that, after the scene with the Tooth Fairies (yes, they're called tooth fairies!) it is much, much much less viscerally violent, and you're back to reasonable Wild West rock'em, sock'em stuff.

Oh, man, what a smile! The disgusting? Yeah, kinda, but as I mentioned to Maruad, it doesn't last a long time, and goes on to be pretty reasonable rock-em, sock'em stuff. And the fact that there really aren't horrible villains makes it rather more thoughtful than this sort of thing can be.

Ah, Chuck...wait, not allowed to eat you? Well then, what's the point of killing you?

Hmm. Are we talking "high" faerie, meaning villainous-but-cool Prince, or the, uhm, tooth fairies? The latter were inventive, and kind of cutely abhorrent.

I believe I'll be walling your world off from mine if you have all those critters!

Well, hello there! No indeed, you don't have to choose, although if I was going to share a toothbrush with a fairy, it would indeed be Prince Nuada. I loved the imagery of the two "high" elves looking, by turns, as if they were slowly eroding away, or were made of the same wood as the puppets in the young Hellboy's imagination.

I also loved the fact that I couldn't consider him a villain, as such. Oh, yeah, and he was gorgeous, or did I mention that before? Heh.

Thanks for pointing out the mythological nomenclature links; I agree with you that movies can gleefully play fast and loose with such things, although I suspect it could reasonably be termed just another part of the folk process in which gods and monsters partake of each others' natures in human memory....

...and other such pompous, lame-assed commentary. I'm prone to it.

You have an Obama button in your beard!

It kinda stuck out -- I'm not sure I've seen things in your beard before. At least the icon one.

Kewl! (I'm using my only political icon in honor of your button, even though I almost completely disagree with lovely Jane. Politics are so much fun to talk about.)

The extra .2 being for the Barry Manilow sing-along?

You know, I was thinking about you constantly during the movie - I kept thinking about the icon you're using here, and I also had to keep myself from whispering to BB "Now I know what Belsum's handy-swordy icon is from!"