I never thought I'd say this, but the original is better!

Rating: 4/10 (11 August 2010)

And the original was awful.
The holes in this movie are 'Legion', which is funny, because for some strange reason, Greek warriors keep talking about 'serving in the Legion', which is nonsense. This movie is supposed to be set in classic Greece, and Greeks served in the Army, ROMANS served in the Legion. Their uniforms and weapons are also decidedly Roman, what is with this fixation with Rome? Do Americans think Greek soldiers are not man enough?
The story is garbage. Really not sure what Zeus is doing, we never have any idea what he is up to, suddenly at the end Hades his brother 'deceives' him, how again? Oh, the Kraken is going to kill everyone instead of make them worship you, or some such nonsense?
HOW do you fly out of hell? If your trapped on the wrong side of the Styx, your DONE, you can't fly out of Hades, that's just stupid, or all the birds that die would get away. The battle with Medusa was pathetic, he just happens to spot a shiny shield at the last minute, 'Just don't look at her!' is his strategy going in?? The original, where he thought it out and then polished up a shield, is far better.
Where is the ship? Didn't Perseus sail around on a ship, ala Jason and the Argonauts? I guess they blew the budget on the stupid fat Kraken thing, no money left for showing sailing ships. So we are treated to a bunch of Roman dudes wandering through the forest, with some girl in tow that somehow, nobody even questions or asks about.
Then we get giant scorpions. The action is so badly done, too up close and in your face, that I miss him getting swallowed. How does a scorpion, which have very tiny mouths, swallow a guy in armour, anyway? They don't swallow their food anyway.
SO then these weirdo evil looking mages show up. We don't see them tame the scorpions, just the start of them doing that, then next scene they are all riding giant scorpions. WTF??
This movie has: - Horrible writing, full of plot holes, missing info, stupid contrived devices, you name it. - Horrible acting. Watching Liam trying to fumble his way through a horribly written Zeus was cringe-worthy, and I typically LOVE anything the man attempts. - Horrible editing. The scenes jump, there's missing parts that we need to know, etc, just a bad cut job overall.
I thought it was quite telling of them to chuck away the mechanical owl in the barracks at the beginning, an obvious slight thrown at the first Clash of the Titans movie, like somehow we all hated that damn owl and they were telling us NO, we AIN'T DOIN' THE DAMN OWL again, like somehow that would have us cheering from the rafters or something. I was disappointed when they left him behind, I liked the mechanical owl, and to me, this was saying, "We will not get anywhere NEAR as good as the first movie, so we won't even bother to try using the robot owl"
Thumbs down, I want my money back, garbage.