Actor Ron Perlman won our hearts as a pure of heart "beast" in the t.v. series "Beauty and the Beast" ten years ago. In Hellboy, based on a popular comic book series, Perlman is again a weirdly-lovable non-human hero but this guy kicks a bit more bad guy butt.

Okay, here's how it goes. Nazi forces during World War 2 decide to dabble in black magic and team up with baddie Rasputin to open the portals of the underworld, unleash some gnarly demons and gain world domination. While the portal is open, a little red, horned demon child comes through. A scientist leads the allies and defeats the Nazi mission. He decides to rescue and "adopt" the little guy, naming him, appropriately, Hellboy.

Flash forward to now. Hellboy is an all grown up good guy and lives at the BPRD (the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development) with his now elderly scientist "dad" and some other not-quite-human operatives. The big red "boy" misses childhood friend Liz (Selma Blair) a firestarter who has been locked away in an asylum hoping to learn to control her powers. Nazi baddies have been reincarnated and Hellboy, Mer-Man Abe Sapiens and Hellboy's new "partner" John Myers (Rupert Evans) are sent to stop the hounds of hell that reproduce like crazy and have been released to conquer earth (or something like that). Of course this involves some major action and a love triangle between Liz, John and Hellboy.