Since there was nothing that really interested us this week in theatres ("Dinner for Schmucks" might have been alright but "Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" was a definite NO!)...Benjy and I decided to go ahead and rent the most mindless movie that we could possibly find that neither of us had seen. Enter "Clash fo the Titans". A supremely mindless movie about humans wanting to overthrow the God's in ancient Greece. Naturally Zeus and the other Gods do not take very kindly to this and Hades is brought in to re-establish the fear and reverence of the Gods by releasing the Kraken (a supremely vicious looking CG creation from the depths of hell). Little does Zeus know that his brother Hades has this big elaborate plot to overthrow Zeus by gaining strength from people's fears while weakening Zeus' power as people stop loving him (Zeus and the other Gods survive on the love of people). Oh...and then there is Perseus, Zeus' forgotten son who was conceived when Zeus was trying to get back at a king who was defying him. Zeus' disguised himself as the King and went and slept with the queen...needless to say the King wasn't so happy with this so he sent his wife and child to the bottom of the ocean. The queen died but Perseus lived and was adopted by a fisherman and his family. Is this plot confusing enough for you yet? I know nothing about Greek mythology but this movie made me feel like they were taking quite a bit of creative license with some of the stories. Anyways...all you need to know is that Perseus is a demigod and is kinda essential to the human side in their fight against the Gods...And he is motivated by a certain "event" but I wont give that part away...Got it? Good.
This was a fun movie. I think that pretty much sums it up right there. The DVD was especially good because it was viewed in HD on a large TV. There were also a bunch DVD extras that we don't normally get to see in theatres, like an alternate ending and deleted scenes, and it really made you appreciate how much polish goes into making the final cut of a movie. Some of the scenes shot on a cardboard set, which would then be fixed up later with computers, were a stark contrast to what you saw in the final cut...kinda funny actually...or if they didn't even shoot the scene and they just have the storyboard picture...hilarious. From what I have heard, I am glad that I didn't see it in 3D as it seems it was fairly obvious that it was added in post production and really didn't add much to the movie (probably more distracting...similar to my overuse of parentheses). Apparently for the next installment they are planning on 3D from the get go...so maybe that will make it better? I certainly hope so...In which case I may decide to see it in theatres.
As for a rating...lets go with 5 snakes short of a complete medusa head...yup...that sounds about right!
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