Clash of the Titans Review

The closest thing you can get to a God of War movie for now

I anticipated the movie after seeing the movie poster earlier this year, because it's one of the remake of one of my favourite old school movie of the same name from 1981 (used to love those kinda movies back when I was a kid, oh how simple stop-motion was enough to captivate anyone that time before CG came in).

Comparison of the 1981 movie poster and the 2010 movie poster. They tried to be true to the original movie, although the new Kraken is awesomely more epic and GoW-ish ;p

I can barely remember the original movie's plot, but I assume it remained mostly the same. With the exception that the main hero/demigod Perseus was the very same Na'vi dude from Avatar as well as the unconventional saviour in Terminator Salvation. So seeing Sam Worthington again in this movie not long after his last two epics, it felt awkward. It felt like Perseus the demigod got immortal and survived the Greek mythology era and lived through WWI,WWII, the Cold War, the War on Terror, then became further immortal by turning into a robot in the War Against the Machines but lost his legs, then went to Pandora to become the hero of the Na'vi in the Humans-Na'vis War (and turned into a Na'vi).

The evolution of Sam Worthington throughout the history of Humanity

But enough about Sam, on to the plot. The plot is simple where the hero is required to go from Point A to Point B in order to save the Princess from the Big Boss, just like a typical Mario Bros. game. However, just like God of War, the journey requires the hero to side track to Point C, D B, back to A etc. With a bit of LotR elements where random side characters tag along the with the hero to complete his quest (and DIES in the end leaving the audience wondering "what's his name was?" at the end of the movie), CotT doesn't really expand the potential ideas apart from reusing older ideas from the original and other relevant movies.

But hey at least the CG saves the day, and the stop-motion Kraken is now a ferocious well-animated 3D beast that is set to come alive and harass you with his tentacles in 3D (yea I watched the 3D version, although most of the time I don't feel the 3Dness).

Overall I'll give positive ratings to CotR (2010). As a GoW fan I'll be a bit biased because some of the elements in the movie are GoW-ish e.g. jumping off the Pegasus midair to slaughter the Harpies(?) may sound familiar to GoW players who have played the similar scene in GoWII. So I'll give the movie:


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