Not good

Rating: 1/10 (1 April 2010)

Just got back from a screening of this. The attached Shrek 3 trailer was genuine 3D, this mess certainly wasn't. As a fan of the original, I had high hopes of something along similar lines but with use of the technical advances available today. Not so, the film is just a poor rip-off of a far superior original. Sure the cgi is there but its nothing special, the original Medusa was far more effective and the Kraken in this version was hardly worth the wait. In '3D' the creatures are not improved at all, actually nothing is improved and I would advise anyone who really needs to see this film to watch it in 2D. The '3D' on show here is not 3D as we would expect these days and nothing at all comes flying out from the screen, except for maybe the end credits.
As far as the acting, well this is not why you would watch a film like this but Sam Worthington sounds like Crocodile Dundee throughout all of this, very off putting and completely wooden. Ralph Fiennes, not too bad with what he is given, Liam Neeson, thought it was Qui Gon Jinn up there in glowing armour, nothing new to offer at all.
I can't come up with any positives about this movie and it is a shadow of the previous version. The whole thing seems rushed, any comedic relief falls flatter than a pancake and did I mention the '3D'...........all in all, buy the blu-ray of the original and let Ray Harryhausen show us how it should be done.