Review – Clash of the Titans

Here’s proof, as if any were needed, that Ray Harryhausen movies don’t dramatically improve with bigger budgets. Though the Medusa sequence is one of the most famous bits of animation Harryhausen ever did, it doesn’t differ radically in quality from the equally well-known skeleton scene at the end of Jason and the Argonauts. And goodness knows Harry Hamlin doesn’t turn in a performance significantly less hammy than any other member of the parade of no-names and minor stars who have done battle with Dynamated beasts. The final product is a retelling of the Perseus myth in which the effects as usual upstage the actors by a considerable margin. Mildly amusing