Wrath of the Titans

WOTT

WOTT


Wrath of the Titans – I went to see this with my son Zen, not having seen either of the previous Clash of the Titans movies, and not expecting too much. This one tells the tale of Perseus, being pulled out of retirement by his father (Zeus, the king of the gods) to help the ailing gods, who are losing power and also betraying each other left and right (there’s a certain appropriateness of that, actually – villainy born out of sheer desperation). There’s a lot of humility and father-son bonding here that is fairly nice, and the rest of the movie is sheer action. Perseus fights a minotaur, a chimaera, some giant cyclopes and a fiery Cronos himself. Nice. Huge gaps in logic, and the general uselessness of Queen Andromeda and her armies don’t entirely hinder from the enjoyment of the brainlessness of the film itself, which has a certain charm to it in the face of the Transformers-level mayhem and noise (and, of course, there is no Shia Laboeuf to be seen). Cronos gets the Galactus treatment by becoming a massive cloudy fire beast rather than a Titan that may have fathered a gang of pouty Olympians.

Bottom line – the movie is okay. Just okay, for adults, but perfect for kids.

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