Funnier than Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. Harder than Michael Keaton's Batman. More sensitive than Tobey Maguire's Spidey. Hotter than Halle Berry's catsuit. Ladies and gents, witness a new all-time-great screen-superhero born from the bowels of Hades. Ron Perlman is Hellboy. Okay, so Guillermo del Toro's winning comic-book actioner basically boils down to a succession of smackdowns with the same ever-multiplying, slobbery beast, but red definitely means GO for this franchise.

DVD Extras:

Quite a two-discer. Kicking off with an intro from the mucho-amusing del Toro (who also fronts the disc's cheeky Easter eggs), there's a lively chat-track from the cast before the director pops up again to explain how the three deleted scenes were all cut for time. The centrepiece, though, is the mighty two-and-a-half-hour Seeds Of Destruction documentary, which takes us through the 114 days of pre-production, principle photography, second unit and post-production - and there's yet more: eight further set-visits, all manner of scene deconstructions (storyboards, pre-storyboard doodles, animatics, multi-angle look-sees), comic-book fact-blasts from author Mike Mignola... Still, chances are you won't buy it. Why? Because you'll be wanting the three-disc Region One extended director's cut. Oh, yes.