Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23551 in DVD
• Brand: STARZ/SPHE
• Released on: 2007-02-06
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Formats: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 73 minutes

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In this first animated feature from Director Tad Stones (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), and Creative Producers Mike Mignola (creator of HELLBOY comics) and Guillermo del Toro (writer/director of the HELLBOY movie), a folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to a supernatural dimension of ghosts, monsters and feudal mayhem.Now while pyrokinetic Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) and fishboy Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) battle one very pissed-off dragon, a lost and cranky Hellboy must find his way home. Even if he can survive the perilous journey, how much crap does a guy have to put up with from the two most vengeful and ferocious spirits of Japanese legend?

Features:
Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs

Teaser Trailer

Still Galleries

Original Production Art

A New Breed: Creating - The New Hellboy

A VIEW FROM THE TOP - The "Heads" sequence

Also on DVD

Audio Commentary Featuring Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola, Supervising Producer/Director Tad Stones and Director Phil Weinstein

Conquering Hellboy - The Actor's Role

DVD Rom - Live Transcript; Live Transcript Search; Synced Storyboards; Enhanced Script to Screen; Documentary Sync; Kill count - which keeps track of each of the major characters' kills; Character sync; A ""Key Moments"" list; Weblinks

Hellboy Goes East: A Revealing look at many of the inspirations, backstories and secrets of Hellboy: Sword of Storms. This includes: Tale Spin - A deconstruction of the ""Spider Lady"" sequence; Prop Perfecture - A look at how ordinary objects animate to life; Origins - The filmmakers are inspired by Japanese mythology; Samurai Songs - Hellboy's music to live and fight by

Keepers of Hellboy: A Comic Con 2006 Panel Discussion

Motion Menus

To Hell And Back - How Mike Mignola Created Hellboy (Part I)

Customer Reviews

The World Needs Heroes
The world's greatest paranormal detective continues his battle against the forces of evil in "Hellboy: Sword of Storms". When a university professor of mythology opens an old forbidden scroll and becomes possessed by ancient Japanese demons, the secretive Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense sends Hellboy and a team of agents to Japan to investigate. While examining the crime scene, Hellboy discovers a cursed samurai sword and is transported to a supernatural dimension of Japanese folklore. From comic book creator Mike Mignola and director Guillermo Del Toro, "Hellboy: Sword of Storms" is a very entertaining animated adventure that fans of the comic book hero Hellboy will certainly get quite a kick out of it. An engaging storyline, stylized animation, cool action sequences and Ron Perlman's outstanding voice talents highlight this well produced extension of the "Hellboy" franchise. The voice cast also includes Selma Blair, Doug Jones and Peri Gilpin.

"Hellboy: Sword of Storms" is a truly excellent DVD. The animated feature is presented in a 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen format. The DVD contains a rich and colorful video transfer and a great 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The DVD is also packed with an insightful audio commentary with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and production crew, three short but informative behind-the-scenes featurettes (To Hell and Back, A New Breed & Conquering Hellboy), a 42-minute Comic-Con panel discussion, four trailers and colorful interactive menus. Overall, "Hellboy: Sword of Storms" scores a worthy "B".

Terrific animated spin-off movie!
Hellboy (Ron Perlman) with his friends Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) and Abe Sapien (Doug Jones) are sent to Japan to investigate after a professor accidently unleashes an old curse involving two powerful demons of lightning and thunder. Hellboy however picks up a special sword that sends him on a weird trip where he meets and fights weird monsters while Liz and Abe go off to fight a monstrous dragon for he must return back to the real world to fight the real monsters.

The first animated spin-off movie from the popular underground comic character Hellboy does justice to both the comics and the movie! Guillermo Del Toro (director of the first movie) and Mike Mignola (creator of "Hellboy") serve as producers of the film. The animation is quite anime-ish yet works and so does the storyline, this could almost be superior to the Marvel animated movies and is highly recommend for fans of comics, Hellboy and animation alike.

This DVD has very good extras such as audio commentary, trailers especially to the next animated movie, and five featurettes.

Give 'em hell
The first animated Hellboy movie to make it's way onto DVD, Hellboy: Sword of Storms may feature a voice cast comprised of those who appeared in the live action film, but the animated film's story, spirit, and delivery are blatently directly inspired from Mike Mignola's genre bending comic. Sword of Storms begins with Hellboy (Ron Perlman), pyro Liz (Selma Blair), and fish boy Ape Sapien (Doug Jones) assigned to check out reports of a professor becoming posessed by demonic Japanese spirits. Soon enough, Hellboy is trapped in another world and fighting to get out while learning the secrets of the spirits, while Liz and Abe get in over their heads with all sorts of badness. The animation may be an acquired taste for some, but it is what it is, and it's well done enough. The voice acting is superb, and as said before, the overall story and tone of Sword of Storms maintains the spirit of fun and originality that Mignola's comic has done so often. The DVD itself is packed with worthwhile special features which in itself is a welcome surprise, which rounds out a great package that's more than worth it's list price. All in all, if you dig Hellboy, comic or movie or both, pick this up.