Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) (TV)

Directors:

Phil Weinstein
Tad Stones

Writers:

Mike Mignola (characters)
Mike Mignola (story)

Release Date:

28 October 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A professor of folklore opens a forbidden scroll and becomes possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning...

Plot Keywords:

Hell | Based On Comic Book | Dark Horse Comics | Folklore | Spin Off

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Ron Perlman	...	Hellboy (voice)
Selma Blair	...	Liz Sherman (voice)
Doug Jones	...	Abe Sapien (voice)
Peri Gilpin	...	Professor Kate Corrigan (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Liza Del Mundo	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Keith Ferguson	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Kim Mai Guest	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Michael Hagiwara	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Yuriana Kim	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Clyde Kusatsu	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Paul Nakauchi	...	Additional Voices (voice)
James Sie	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Mitchell Whitfield	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Gwendoline Yeo	...	Kitsune (voice)

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:PG | USA:PG | Australia:M

Company:

IDT Entertainment

Trivia:

In the scene were Hellboy is talking to the Daimyo's daughter, the statue in the background is making a 'rock on' hand sign.

Goofs:

Continuity: We see the giant bat creature pin Abe to the ground, then the shot cuts away for a moment and then cuts back to the bat but Abe is now on his feet and several yards away from the creature when there wasn't time for him to get there.

Quotes:

Hellboy: [sarcastic] Gosh, Kate, I feel just awful dragging you away from rotting manuscripts and ancient texts. I mean, you used to research trolls!
Professor Kate Corrigan: It's okay. Now I get to work with one.

Movie Connections:

References Ghost Busters (1984)

hellishly irritating

i luckily(?) rented this movie, and tried to watch it but couldn't do this in chunks of any more than a few minutes at a time and did not make it to the end

there were several reasons for this:

-the voice overs were just absolutely rubbish. i could record a bunch of people off the street and get more inspired performances than these. in particular i hated the cliché Asian accents and apathetic tones

-the animation itself was of a poor standard. totally flat and with no fluidity at all. just lots of bland colours

-the story was very very poor with no focus at all

-the movie is loud, loud and more loud

-the DVD i watched had no subtitles? clearly the makers tried extremely hard to borrow from Asian animation, failed totally and then did not even have the decency to provide subtitles in at least Chinese or Japanese.. or in German, french or English for that matter

if this is the standard of western animations I'll continue to look elsewhere because this is absolutely sub standard