Yes, indeed. Time to save the world again: long ago, an invincible army is buried away when a hidden, ancient race builds a truce with humans. It’s not meant to last and a disgruntled prince with killer sword skills (Luke Goss) seeks to reactivate the army and destroy the humans. Now, Hellboy and his team of heroes must stop the powers of darkness from unleashing the Golden Army, an indestructible force of wind-up clockwork people that lurch forward on springs and gears

Doug Jones returns as Abe, the turquoise-tinted fish-man with keen intuition and a taste for Vivaldi. The brainy, watery Abe has Doug Jones replacing David Hyde Pierce from Hellboy. Jeffrey Tambor again plays the jittery bureaucrat who runs the operation, and the vaporous Teutonic boss is amusingly voiced by Seth McFarlane.

The visuals are the star, of course. The creature and makeup effects by Mike Elizalde ("Men in Black") are brilliant. But as freaky and amusing as it is, this sequel wouldn't be nearly as much fun without Ron Perlman who handles Hellboy's gruff charm and outsider angst with equal parts campy humor and heartfelt charm.

Perlman, with plenty of help from Del Toro, makes Hellboy the most dynamic superhero of the summer. With Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Del Toro has simply given us the most delightfully idiosyncratic action fantasy of the summer.