I saw it on the weekend, it's an alright movie. There's already been a bunch of people saying it's horrible, but we're all geeks and geeks do love to claim something is so awful or so wonderful, so whatever.
The script is the most noticeable element in the film. It really does have some interesting ideas but just fails to establish or develop them. Man is apparently angry with the gods but we're not really shown why, they just keep saying they're pissed. This kind of leads to an idea about fearing the gods or loving them, and a better script could have worked with these ideas to produce something pretty interesting, or at least something a little more coherent. The movie ends with Zeus and Perseus having a chat they basically fail to address the issue at all, and it just goes to show how incoherent the film was. I suspect it was the result of the film passing through a whole pile of rewrites, with the original premise being lost along the way.
That inconsistancy can be felt elsewhere in the film. much of the first act feels like a slightly camp melodrama as they earnestly spell out all the themes and character relations before the rest of the film then settles in to fairly standard action hero mode, with much of the early work being largely forgotten.
That said, it's a more interesting idea than most blockbusters, as the premise is something more than 'believe in yourself' or similar tosh. I thought Io was an interesting romantic lead, and the grizzled band of adventurers that set off were pretty cool, and I like that they gave a pretty good account of themselves in the various battles and didn't just get wailed on until Perseus saved the day.
The special effects are of the exceptionally high quality you'd expect from a modern blockbuster, and there's some really good action scenes (I really like the fight with Medusa, but got a little confused in the fight with the scorpions - I couldn't figure out for most of the fight if there was meant to be one or more scorpions). The set designs are really impressive as well, the palace layout is particularly lush and would have cost a fair penny.
It's a decent spectacle that, like so many other blockbusters, just needed a tighter hand in the script to make it a really solid film.
Soladrin wrote:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1588-Clash-of-the-Titans
Enjoy.
That was an interesting opinion let down by a really bizarre misreading of Perseus' love interest. The fellow complained that not even Andromeda was developed much... in the original Andromeda was the romantic lead but here she's a side character. In the remake Io is the love interest - a change made as a romance works better when two characters travel through the movie together, instead of the girl waiting at home passively to be rescued. It was one of the better changes made to the original.
's since 1995.