Mythology - with extra cheese

Rating: 2/10 (2 April 2010)

Everyone BUT the two leads (Worthington and Davalos) is just passable in this. I can't figure out all the Sam Worthington love -he's pretty bland in this and everything else. And why does HE get a buzz-cut when everyone else has long braids? Mads Mikkelson walks away with this movie, and when Fiennes and Neeson have a ham-off, it's just good, cheesy fun! The look of the film is good, with the cutest tame scorpions ever. There were a couple of shots that I knew were CGI, but really didn't look CGI, which was neat. The use of real exterior shots helped some, I think. I saw it in 2D, not 3D, which I heard was horrible-looking. Stiil, CGI cannot replace a script.
Why Io instead of Athena helping Perseus? I dunno. Why Io at all? I dunno. Why are humans revolting against the gods when the gods can and do strike them with lightning? I dunno. Since they went to all the trouble to dress up a bunch of people as gods, why didn't the gods (with the exceptions of Hades and Zeus) get any lines? I dunno. Why the Norwegian kraken instead of a Greek monster? I dunno, but at least that was in the first movie. In the end, like all mythology, you just go with it and have a great time, which I did. Don't expect to learn anything substantive about Greek mythology, though.