There should be a rule against Remakes.

Rating: 3/10 (31 July 2010)

Seriously, what is the point of even having remakes at all? IF the film was okay the first time out, there is no need to make it again...
I think somewhere, there is a mentality in Hollywood that if you can't see a film with modern special effects, kids won't appreciate it on its own merits.
We have all our old friends from the 1981 version, although the mechanical owl is thankfully only on screen for a second as a in joke. "Take everything!" "What about this?" "Leave it!" The rest of it is paint by number script-writing, complete with the unwilling hero learning to be heroic on a hero's journey. Some of it was silly, such as the stuff with giant scorpions (much too long a sequence).
Also, there were some bizarre religious issues going on here. For some reason, the mortals were attacking the Gods because the Gods weren't holding up their end of the deal, or something, but Hades is plotting to overthrow Zeus, not realizing he's Liam Freakin' Neesom. I think the writers were going for some criticism of religion in general, but it got bleached out in the rewrites...
Oh, yes, you also have a hottie named "Io" who is ageless and provides all sorts of exposition so the audience...oops, I mean the heroes don't get confused. Well, hey, the other guy got Burgess Meredith! Meanwhile the love story with Andromeda is overshadowed because that was the actual romance. This guy has a thing for the babe whose been looking over him since he was a baby! Hey, maybe this should have been about Oedipus... More seriously, what's the point of "saving the princess" if you don't give a flip if the monster eats her or not?
But the real problem is that the human actors are overshadowed by the curse of 21st century film making, CGI.