One of the worst films I have ever seen!

Rating: 1/10 (5 April 2010)

I grew up watching the original Clash of the Titans (1981), and although the SFX were not that great (fine for the time the movie came out, but not by today's standards) and the story gets a little slow towards the middle, I always enjoyed watching it and still do. When I heard they were making a remake I was excited because I was looking forward to somebody improving on the SFX and the story, but this remake is no improvement. It is an hour and 46 minutes worth of horrible dialogue, sparse character development and giant scorpions. In fact, to call it a remake requires one to have never seen the original since the only thing the two have in common are the names of the characters and the locations.
In this version of the film Perseus hates the gods since a god killed his family, and his only reason for saving Argos (actually, defeating the Kraken, he could care less about saving the city) is revenge. In the original Perseus falls in love with Andromeda and vows to save her and the city of Joppa (Argos was destroyed at the beginning of the film, and is the city Perseus and his mother are sent from). This newer version credits King Acrisius (never mentions what city he is king of) as the creature Calibos, but the original shows us that Calibos was an actual person who was to marry Andromeda, and is deformed by Zeus for killing all but one of his flying horses, and so that Andromeda would fall in love with his son Perseus.
Granted, both films take liberties with the actual Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda, but how hard is it to watch the original a few times if you are going to make a "remake". If the director planned on changing the entire story and character development of the original he should have called this version an "adaptation", at least then people might not be upset when when they walk out from seeing the latest adaptation of a film from the '80s.