Evidence Remakes are not always a good idea.

Rating: 2/10 (5 April 2010)

It is a shame that so much money and effort has been thrown at this film especially when the vision and the effort was completely misdirected. To have taken from source material that sits firmly in viewers minds as a lovable piece of filmic history and rework it into a clumsy mash of CGI, badly worked 3D and something lacking character development and story is incomprehensible. Bigger is not always better - in making this so full of giant monsters, the final moment of using Medusa's head was the epitome of anti-climax. And the CGI was almost as believable as the old stop motion creatures in the original. In fact Medusa was more realistic in the '81 film. There was none of the tension, or character depth in the original (and that is saying a lot) lost with too many incidentals such as the religious zealot that cluttered the plot - the original idea of the king of Argos submitting to the gods was more effective - and the two hunters? What was the point in that? And why were the gods helping Perseus with the sword and Pegasus when they wanted Hades to win initially? There were too many holes. And the loss of the love triangle between Andromeda and Perseus and Calibos also left a hole as to why not simply sacrifice Andromeda and be done with it? Why should he care? To bring in the weepy Io instead seemed to pull the story off course. As for the 3D, I was going to see it without the 3D, but it was only showing with at my cinema. It was clumsily down, perspectives were off and at times things that should have appeared closer seemed further away, such as Zeus' beard at one point. 3D does not guarantee a good film. It is a sad time when I can honestly say Bubo - the golden owl mocked in the film in its cameo from the original - was actually the best thing in the film.