Review – Jason and the Argonauts

Considered by many to be the height of Ray Harryhausen’s career, this certainly has all the usual hallmarks of a Dynamated production. In other words, show up for the special effects, but don’t feel like you have to stay for the rest of the movie. And as usual, the animated monsters are sprinkled thin throughout a lot of cheap scenery-chewing that would otherwise barely pass muster as a gladiator flick. Talos isn’t bad; indeed, he’s at least a little scary right when he first starts to move. The harpies are cool if a little indistinct. But of course the real stars of the show are the skeleton warriors who don’t show up until the very end. Worth seeing