Full of expectation - what a disappointment - terrible

Rating: 2/10 (17 April 2010)

This is the first review I've written on the IMDb but after just watching Clash Of The Titans 3D in my local cinema, i felt i just had to let the movie going public know how bad it was.
As a boy of 12 years of age when the original Clash of the Titans first came out in 1981, i like everyone else in the movie theatre sat spellbound throughout the entire movie. Not just because of the special affects - which were another fine example of Ray Harryhausens work, but because the story and the character development made you care about what happened to Perseus, Andromeda and all those who had helped Perseus in his quest.
Move forward almost 30 years and i still find it hard to believe how badly this film has been remade. Its not really the actors fault, as the fine cast assembled should have been able to produce what we all hoped would be another classic.
What happened! i'l tell you - a terribly written story and cheesy dialogue which bares hardly any resemblance to the original film at all. What you have is a series of blurry, difficult to watch 3d action sequences which don't tie up with one another, and characters that you simply don't care about. The only exception to this is Mads Mikkelsen who manages to look and sound great in a movie that no-one else does. Even The great Liam Neeson and promising new leading man Sam Worthington are completely wasted here and appear wooden, like they simply don't believe in the script themselves. What a wasted opportunity.
Why did they omit the wonderful and creepily suspenseful scenes in the marsh, when Calibos set his impossible riddles for Andromedas suitors. Why did Andromedas character play no real importance in this film apart from being food for a hungry C.G.I squid! (Suposedly the Kraken) No love story, no interest as far as i was concerned.
Without going on and on about the mistakes in this movie ( i could though) i just need to mention the mythical creatures in the movie. Calibos - i like Jason Flemyng but he wasn't right for this part, just not scary at all. The kraken - way to large, the C.G.I looked very cartoonish and boy was it easy to kill. The scorpions - pretty good actually until they were suddenly tamed, a saddle and harness put on them and ridden like docile cows! Whats that all about! Finally though the scene with the Medusa - in the original it was scary, suspenseful and very exciting. In this it was rushed, the C.G.I was poor,(Bring back to the good old days of stop motion clay model effects if this is the best C.G.I has to offer) and overall, what was always the best action scene in my opinion in the original film was completely ruined in this remake.
Supposedly, the director was a big fan of the original film. By watching this you would be forgiven for thinking he actually hated it and wanted to make this film as far removed from the original as possible. In that one aspect he truly succeeded.
Special mention to the most irritating aspect of the film, every time that awful skinny prophet of doom appeared on screen wailing and crying out those silly noises. Why didn't the kings guards simply kill him the minute he opened his mouth.
To sum up, i really didn't care by the end whether or not Perseus, Andromeda and the whole city of Argos was destroyed. In fact, it would have been the one change to the original film, that would have signalled a welcome end to what was truly an awfully disappointing movie experience.
If this is what we have to look forward to from now on from the Hollywood - cash in on every great movie memory we have crowd. I feel very sad. Surely we as the paying viewing public, who pay the wages of all those in the movie industry deserve better. I hope so, or my days of going to the cinema to watch the latest summer blockbuster are numbered.