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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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) | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Director: | Phil Weinstein | | Format: | Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Starz / Anchor Bay | | Run Time: | 77 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | February 06, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 45 reviews |
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Better than the live action Hellboy! Jul 10, 2010
Sword of Storms makes the transfer from graphic novel to animated feature brilliantly. This story centers around Japanese mythology, beginning with the BPRD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) investigating a mysterious demonic possession. Hellboy picks up a magic samurai sword and is transported to a magical realm where he must reenact the journey of a samurai warrior (with plenty of creepy Japanese mythological monsters!) Abe and Liz face off against dragons in the real world, while agent Corrigan track down the demon possessed professor. Wielding the Sword of Storms, Hellboy must escape the alternate dimension and prevent the demonic gods of Lightning and Thunder from escaping their prison inside the sword.
Sword of Storms is everything you love about Hellboy. It's well written, creepy, adventurous, mythological, packs plenty of fist-to-face action, and downright hilarious. It utilizes the paranormal and Japanese mythology but keeps itself from getting too weird, making it accessible to a general audience. Sword of Storms success is greatly due to its production team. They worked with Mike Mignola (the graphic novel author) and kept the same actors who worked on the Hellboy major motion pictures. This consistency from graphic novel to film and back to animated feature keeps the Animated Hellboy movies strong and familiar. Overall, I enjoyed Sword of Storms more than the silver screen Hellboy adaptations.
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 horrible Nov 17, 2009
bought this for my nephew for his birthday.he tried to watch it when he got home.the dvd was tried in 3 different dvd players but the dvd was blank.thanks for ruining a little boy's birthday.
 Great Animated Hellboy Film Jul 04, 2009
We love it. It's a great story and well scripted. My 8 yr olds love it as much as I do. It's not dumbed down, so there's enough of a plot to hold adult interest... provided you aren't above watching a cartoon of a comic book hero. ;)
 Oniboy Feb 23, 2009
Japanese folklore is rich with monsters and demons... so it seems appropriate that Hellboy would encounter one or two along his way.
And the animated spinoff movie "Hellboy: Sword of Storms" does a decent enough job ushering some fun Japanese goblins and monsters into Mike Mignola's world. The entire storyline is rather straightforward and bogged down by a tepid tragic-love-story-from-the-past that putters out, but Hellboy's adventures in a menacing Wonderland and the attacking dragons make for a good adventure story.
First off: the team ventures into a green, slimy, root-filled underground temple, where they must battle an ancient bat-deity and a small army of Aztec mummies. Then to the main plot -- a history professor receives an ancient scroll that tells the story of the demonic brothers Thunder and Lightning, and a doomed love between a princess and a young samurai. And when the professor finds the samurai's sword -- surprise! -- he gets possessed by the demons.
But when the BPRD is called in, Hellboy touches the sword as well -- and is sucked into a bizarre otherworld full of monsters, ghosts and magical creatures. In the meantime, Abe and Liz are caught in a typhoon that strands them in the middle of nowhere -- and it turns out that dragons are on the way. To save human civilization, Hellboy must not only escape from the otherworld of Japenese legend, but also deal with the demons and some tragic ghosts....
"Hellboy: Sword of Storms" is not quite the twisty, mysterious tale that its sister story "Blood and Iron" is: it's a pretty straightforward action/fantasy story of monstrous creatures about to be unleashed on the world, and a rather sentimental ghostly "Romeo and Juliet" tale. The latter is the weakest part of the entire movie, actually -- none of the ghosts are very interesting, and the climax of their subplot just sputters out and dissolves like a wet firecracker.
Fortunately the rest of the story is more entertaining -- lots of thunderstorms, very angry dragons, and Hellboy's rather peeved journey through a very creepy world of Japanese legend. Bouncing-head goblins, a vicious kappa ("He really likes cucumbers... WHAT IS YOUR NAME?!"), an eerie spider-woman who spins bloodied threads on an instrument, and a fox that has a knack for turning into a wise old lady all make appearances, and most of them end up at the wrong end of Hellboy's stone fist.
Of note: The head-goblins actually are from a Mike Mignola short story that goes the same way, but the writers managed to sneak in a few other references to Mignola's comics (including Katie rambling about a mythic king and his berserker warriors).
Ron Perlman's vocals make this Hellboy absolutely perfect -- he's sarcastic but good-hearted ("You're lucky we let you be seen with us!"), while Doug Jones is excellent as the resourceful, mellow fish-man Abe. Selma Blair has some trouble (which she admits, if you watch the making-of featurette) making Liz sound lively, but after some initial rockiness she does manage it. And the animation is pretty good stuff -- the jewel-toned landscapes of Japanese legend have a bad habit of turning into spooky nightmares.
"Hellboy: Sword of Storms" suffers somewhat from a padded ghostly-romance subplot, but the rest of it is a solid, straightforward tale of Japanese folklore and the occasional cursed sword. Worthwhile spinoff.
Sword of Storms - rocky start Feb 22, 2009
The good: the special features, the commentraies, it comes with a full color, glossy, 32-page comic book "Phantom Limbs," and it's not a bad story 6.5/10.
The bad: not enough story for the run time so it has a bit of filler and a couple of weak points in it.
Summary: If you're a fan of Hellboy I rcommend it.
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