Review – The Harryhausen Chronicles

Fans of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen will probably enjoy this documentary about his life and work. It’s a little short and more than a little superficial, but it does manage to supply at least some interesting behind-the-scenes insight. The stuff from his early career is especially fascinating, not because it’s outstanding work but because it shows the development of his art through the influence of Willis O’Brien and George Pal, not to mention his own experiments with stop motion. The interviews with Harryhausen are also worth watching. However, most of the rest of it is trivia well familiar to anyone who knows much of anything about the subject. Mildly amusing