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Here is a review I have completed for a Northern California Newspaper. She looks just like her mom did in '87
Clash of the Titans / Rated PG-13 for violence between giant monsters and regular sized people, scary images and naughty stuff
This is a remake. The original COTT came out in 1981 and didn’t succeed at the box office. The new COTT hopes to do better. It is made in the real 3-D process. I have been somewhat critical of this process in the past. Calling it Real 3-D is like stringing empty beer cans together then hanging it around your neck and calling it real jewelry. Now we can move on to the Real review. Liam Neeson plays the God Zeus. Other important roles include Sam Worthington as Perseus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades and the beautiful Alexa Davalos as Andromeda. Alexa is the daughter of actress Mom, beautiful Elyssa Davalos. Elyssa is best known for her regular role in the MacGyver TV series in the late 80’s and made a recent unbilled small appearance in the latest incarnation of Nancy Drew in 2007. Alexa is best known for this film. COTT is a BIGG movie with lots of BIG creatures on the attack. It is BIGBIGBIG. About as BIG as it gets. Like Kirstie Alley after her last trip to the Las Vegas Hilton all you can eat buffet. The first thing you are going to notice when you see COTT is a sense of dejavu. The volcano scenes will look strangely familiar. They were filmed at Dinorwic Slate Quarry in Wales. I’m sure that you, like most of us, have visited the quarry but if not you remember it from the films Willow (1988) and/or Street Fighter (1994). It is a really big quarry. This movie follows the same lines as the original. Perseus (like Sinbad the Sailor and Jason and the Argonauts) is on a quest. He and his Special Force fighters must take on evil spirits and giant scorpions to get to a big showdown with the original Medusa. Avert your eyes. After Medusa comes the biggest of the big creatures…. the Kraken. Yes, the same Kraken who took down Johnny Depp at the end of the Pirates of the Caribbean II. As Kraken’s go this one is on a frequent films program. Perseus, according to Greek legend, destroys them all. I cannot confirm most of these things as all I know about Greek legend comes from the movie “Zorba the Greek”, information printed on the back label of Grecian Formula containers and bottles of Ouzo. Good special effects and big fights can’t keep the slow moving quest from being more than average. The first COTT ran 118 minutes and seemed a little long. This they have corrected as the new version runs 118 minutes. According to Greek legend.
Rated 2.5 out of 4.0 questions as to why Anthony Quinn, who was from Mexico, was cast to play Zorba who was from Greece and where will the Kraken show up next?
admin note: I just highlighted the MacGyver mention
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