Most of us remember the days of the bad 3D. It was ugly, gave you headache, and usually wasn't all that 3Dish. Avatar changes all that with a breathtaking 3D view that was immersive, gorgeous and real. Of course Hollywood, in all their infinite wisdom, saw the box office from this monster and went "all our movies need to be in 3-D just for the higher ticket price alone." Thus started the new craze of retrofit. While I have yet to see any of the retrofitted movies myself, I haven't read or talked to anyone who said this movie had good 3D. Actually they said it was terrible. So while the movie is fun in a stupid kind of way, under no reason should you see it in 3D.
The plot is similar to this year's Percy Jackson flick, so this is actually the 2nd remake of this movie I've seen this year. Sam Worthington, from Avatar as well, does fine as the vengeful Perseus and Liam Neeson bellows well as Zeus. The effects are typical CGI but the scenes with Medusa look really fake and both Percy Jackson and the original did better with what they took to the party than this. Uma Thurman was Medusa in the Percy Jackson film and was way better than the blank stared CGI nonsense from this one. There is one clever scene with a sorcerer whose stone gaze doesn't work on him much to the surprise of the Medusa, but that was it.
The film is actually not as good as the original whose Ray Harryhausen stop motion effects still look better than some of the CGI today.
It is still a fun movie, albeit not as much as the first. The plot is almost nonexistent (Perseus must get the head of Medusa to stop the Kraken from killing Athos or the princess. The end.) The script could definitely have used another walk through.
If your looking for a way to kill a couple of hours there are worse ways to spend your time. For the rest, wait to rent it or cable. The 3D doesn't matter so don;t waste your money.
2 stars
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