Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American supernatural superhero film based on the fictional Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy, starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair. The movie was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and is a sequel to the 2004 film Hellboy, which del Toro also directed. Perlman reprises his role as the eponymous character. The film was commercially released on July 11, 2008 in the United States and Canada by Universal Pictures. In Christmas of 1955, a young Hellboy is told a bedtime story by his adoptive father, Trevor Broom, involving an ancient war... between Man and magical creatures, started by Man's greed. After years of battle and defeat of the magical creatures' forces, the master of the goblin blacksmiths offers to build an indestructible golden mechanical army for King Balor, the one-armed king of the elves. Influenced by his son Prince Nuada, Balor orders the building of this Golden Army. Soon the humans attack again but the Golden Army devastates them; Balor creates a truce with the humans to stop the bloodshed: Man will keep his cities and the magical creatures will keep their forests. Nuada does not agree with the truce, and leaves in exile.
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| Release date: | July 11, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Guillermo del Toro |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lloyd Levin, Lawrence Gordon, Mike Richardson |
| Editor: | Bernat Vilaplana |
| Music by: | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography: | Guillermo Navarro |
| Screenplay by: | Guillermo del Toro |
| Estimated budget: | $85,000,000 |
| Genre: | Fantasy, Comedy, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure |