Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans has a vigorous and spectacular story to tell. The film has its lulls, and cheesy moments, but for the most part it's entertaining.

One or two setpieces briefly wake up the story -- the visit to Medusa's cave, a parley with the three witches (isn't that Macbeth?) -- but this is generally a hit-and-myth affair.

Aside from the rage of being tricked into forking over extra cash for a third dimension that practically doesn't even exist, it isn't all that bad.

The computer animation looks uninspired after last year's dazzling Avatar. As for the 3-D visuals, they're oddly glitchy.

It's doubtful that records are kept about this sort of thing, but consider the possibility that Clash of the Titans is the first film to actually be made worse by being in 3-D.

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As a fantasy epic, it offers a riot of crappy CGI action sequences and a gratuitous mythology lesson on Greek gods, but overall, it's as flat as a stone carved with the head of Medusa. [Full review in Spanish]

It might not be the best story of the old Greek gods, but it is entertainment and, in this case, like with many films, that is all that is needed really. This version is written and directed for the action, and it works decently well this way.

Clash of the Titans not only doesn’t live up to its expectations, it underwhelms to frustrating degrees of mediocrity.

The filmmakers made a deliberate choice to modernize the story a bit, but also tip their hat and incorporate a lot of these late 1970’s and 1980’s approaches to fantasy storytelling.