Review – Clash of the Titans (2010)

Though I went into this experience with the specific intent of not comparing it to the original, I was almost immediately blown away by how inferior the effects were. I figured with all the sophisticated things film-makers can do with CGI, poor Ray Harryhausen’s work would look clunky in comparison. Sure, the new stuff is slick, but it has all the personality of a Playstation game. The Medusa sequence was particularly disappointing, nowhere near as well-assembled or scary as the original. I was also disappointed in the cast. I figured surpassing Harry Hamlin as Perseus wouldn’t take much doing, but cardboard cut-out Sam Worthington actually manages to fail at the task. The script was also a disappointment, quickly channeling the plot into blind alleys from which it escapes only by ridiculous contrivance. Overall this isn’t a movie as much as it’s a marketing mess, an awkward reanimation of the first version with Frankenstein-esque grafts of 300, Lord of the Rings and a few other popular pictures. See if desperate