Hey Hollywood, you think I'm that stupid? Guess I am I just gave you twelve bucks!

Rating: 1/10 (5 April 2010)

If you don't care about plot or character development, go ahead and watch it.
It was so bad, at the end a few people (who probably aren't very bright, hence their ability to enjoy this waste of film) clapped and tried to get others to join, and no one did.
I was excited when I first heard of this movie but within the first 15 minutes the plot holes appeared. The actors do their best with what they are given but the dialog is rife with bad one liners and is down right cringe inducing. The storyline is non existent. The "love" part of the movie felt shoehorned in.Perseus's issues with his dad were so badly written that I just didn't care. I watched How to Train Your Dragon which is a kid's movie yet they made me care about the father/son problems. Sad when a movie for kids is better written than one made for adults. (if you have kids, you should be even more insulted, Hollywood thinks your children are smarter than you!)I am not religious but there were strong atheist tones saying man is better than God. It annoys me that they're slapping the audience in the face to us "LOOK! LOOK! Look at that dumb zealot trying to get people to worship the gods! Isn't he an idiot? Religious people are stupid fanatics!" I don't go to church, but I went to see this movie for a STORY, not for the writers to shove their beliefs at me. I didn't get the feeling I was watching a movie set in ancient Greece at all. Speaking of Greece, if you have any knowledge of Greek mythology, some of the stuff might bug you, such as Io being all knowing and not a cow, she was an annoying know it all character. Also, the "comic relief" characters that come out of nowhere to join the heroes. So predictable, haw haw, they're funny but what a surprise, they can kick ass.There other attempts at humor that fell flat.The effects were sometimes passable and sometimes lazy CGI. The monsters were not very good either, their faces looked too alike. And the action...well..it was OK... 13 year old boys and people who care not about plot will love the movie for it, I wasn't impressed, it wasn't as epic as I would have liked. Since the story was so lacking a tad more blood would have been nice...
OLD ONE TO NEW ONE Yes, I did like the original. I went into the theater with the mind that these are two different movies so not to judge this one based on the original. I was hoping it to be good story. The old one is far superior. The old effects are campy but were so impressive FOR THE TIME that the movie became a classic. The new effects are not that good by today's standards and no good story to make up for it. Judging STORYWISE and not OMGSPESHULEFFCTS the old one's FAR superior with less plot holes, better acting, and likable characters. I didn't like Calibus's origin in the new one, it sucked. I also didn't like the portrayal of the gods. Humans were their playthings and they used them like chesspieces but in new one Zeus is oddly loving towards them. Wasn't Perseus in love with Andromeda not that cow Io? I knew they'd stray from the story but they'd have been better off if they didn't. Guess they didn't want to make it about love because that's not "badass" enough so instead they changed it into a vengeance thing. And wtf, they made Medusa's face pretty? I thought she was supposed to be hideous! I wasn't impressed with the Medusa battle, the old one actually had more tension and was actually creepier in a way. They added these things called djini which are from middle eastern stories, NOT Greece! It annoyed me that they underestimate audience's intelligence. The old movie did a MUCH better job at portraying the way Greeks viewed their gods and just gave out more of a Greek feel. The new one gives a Christian feel to the Gods Zeus= God, Hades= Satan, Perseus= Jesus. It's a story about ancient Greek gods so make it SEEM like a movie about ancient Greece! They were trying so hard to make it seem cool and modernly kick ass/rebellious they couldn't write the characters to fit into that ancient world. Let's face it, the old one wanted to tell us an interesting story with interesting characters and use effects that BACK THEN made people wonder.The new one simply wanted to make bank by taking an awesome, epic story and stripping it of its soul and replacing it with with empty bravado and run of the mill cgi.