The computer animation looks uninspired after last year's dazzling ' Avatar.' As for the 3-D visuals, they're oddly glitchy: Faces often hover in the foreground and leave the heads a few inches behind. The more established stars include Liam Neeson as Zeus and Ralph Fiennes as Hades (hunched and loping like Olivier himself). The new 'Clash' stars another turn-of-the-decade hunk, Sam Worthington, as the demigod Perseus. The stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen, once state of the art, looked quaint in the wake of 'Star Wars.' The creation of Bubo, the mechanical owl, seemed like a rickety rip-off of R2-D2.Īs for the remake, released Friday, time will again be the judge.
Turn-of-the-decade hunk Harry Hamlin led a cast stuffed with special guests like Burgess Meredith, Ursula Andress and, as Zeus, Laurence Olivier. Even on its release in 1981, 'Clash of the Titans' felt like a film from a fading era.
