"Clash of the Titans"

Please note that this is not a review of the 3D version of Clash of the Titans. A friend of mine cautioned me that since none of the movie was filmed in 3D, the effects did not match up to those of Avatar, which was filmed in 3D.
The movie opens with a fisherman hauling a crate up from the seas’ depths. The fisherman, Spyros (Pete Postlethwaite), cracks it open to discover that it is in fact a coffin since a dead woman is inside, but so is a very much alive baby. Spyros takes the child in and, with his wife, raises him. They name him Perseus.

Along with an all grown up Perseus (Avatar’s Sam Worthington), Spyros takes his wife and young daughter on a pilgrimage to a statue of Zeus. But when they get there, things go horribly wrong.

***SPOILER ALERT (albeit a rather predictable development) *** The family arrives just as a group of soldiers is desecrating the immense statue. In response, harpees manifest and ravage the soldiers. The harpees meld to reveal that they are a god. The vessel carrying the family is also destroyed as part of the vengeance. All aboard (save for Perseus) drown. Some of the remaining soldiers take Perseus back to their kingdom. Once there, the god who killed Perseus’ family reveals himself as Hades to the court and warns the kingdom that unless they sacrifice their beloved Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) to Zeus, he will unleash the Kraken on the kingdom and destroy it and all within. And so Perseus sets out on a quest to avenge his family and save the princess. [\END SPOILER]

Okay, so I have three words for you: Epic. Cheesy. Goodness. Those three words, in that order, sum up the way I feel about Clash of the Titans, a re-imagining of the even more cheesy 1981 movie of the same name. I went into the movie thinking I’d hate it. I thought it would be just a polished Hollywood turd that I’d cringe at the memory of one day. I’d been picking too many movies that ended up negative (good) on the scale and wanted one in the plus column. But I was entertained, and that’s one of the things movies are good for, right?

Okay, so it’s not going to win any Oscars, but you’ll enjoy yourself if you turn off your brain and not question why
***SPOILER ALERT*** mere mortals would take on all-powerful gods [\END SPOILER].
That’s why I give Clash of the Titans (in 2D) a rating of -5 on the B.E. scale. Avoid the 3D version. By most accounts, it’s horrid.