bad 3d, OK but could have been brilliant

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2010)

This film was converted to 3d at the last minute, and badly. At times everyone had two or three heads, and Pegasus had six or eight legs depending on the angle.Great action, enjoyable, watchable.
Sam Worthington was definitely under-used, as regards ability, but then so were most of this great cast. I dearly love Mads Mikkelsen and Polly Walker. For the spend, I think they could have done a much better job.
I'd have liked it better if I'd seen it in the "flat", but what can you do when such a bone shaking monster of sheer terror as the Kraken, is portrayed as being rather cute calamari. Personally I'd have fed him the silly girl without any inducement, and tickled him under the chin afterward.My enjoyment of the film was enhanced when I was the only person in the theatre who understood the nod to Harryhausen; well I was the only one who laughed, anyway.Plenty of "done before", comic scenes and gags, that do not detract, especially when done by such a lovely cast. Loved the Djinn, and Medusa, but found myself wishing that the bad guys would win... quite bored with the whole "I'll do it as a man" thing.
Liam's shining armour made we want to leap out of the seat crying "EXCALIBUR!!!", lucky there were other patrons present, or I would have. Thin on story, I'd thought up a dozen plot lines to make it better by the halfway point. Took some liberties with the story of Perseus, but what the hey, it's 'Dolly-wood'!!!!