I don't have any particular reason to resent a remake of Clash of the Titans other than the usual "no new ideas" chorus, but what director Louis Leterrier & Co. have done isn't so much remake the 1981 original as transplant Greek myth into a Lord of The Rings movie. The bulk of the film is the story of the demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) and his journey to kill Medusa and save the city of Argos from the wrath of the Gods. It seems that secular humanism had a previously unremarked upon blossoming in Ancient Greece; prayers to the Gods are down and Zeus (Liam Neeson) isn't happy. In a weak moment Zeus allows his brother Hades (played as Voldemort's second cousin by Ralph Fiennes) to threaten Argos with destruction by the Kraken unless the Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) is sacrificed. Perseus is tapped to lead the group of warriors trying to save Argos because he's the son of Zeus, product of one of the Big Guy's one night stands and rescued from a watery death by a fisherman (Pete Postlethwaite) who home schools Perseus to hate the Gods.
Clash of the Titans clocks in at 118 minutes, thus avoiding Summer Movie Bloat (the padding of running times with needlessly drawn out spectacle). The action scenes aren't anything special, though there is an encounter with giant scorpions that's reminiscient of Ray Harryhausen's effects in the original. As befitting a movie about Man v. Deity conflict, much time is spent getting Perseus to accept his true nature while still being, no pun intended, a regular guy. There are the obligatory scenes of Perseus learning to be a warrior with some help from an Argosian soldier (Mads Mikkelsen) and a team of anonymous fighters. Women don't have much to do here; Perseus gets a few moments of flirtation with Io (Gemma Arterton), who seems to have been granted the ability to regenerate her outfits. Worthington's blandness in the central role is the movie's biggest problem. While Neeson and Fiennes camp it up Worthington's Perseus is a vessel waiting to be filled; his acceptance of his semi-divine nature and the gifts of the Gods leaves him no more interestng than he was before. Clash of the Titans provides decent enough spectacle but there's too little at the center. We're supposed to be in a post-movie star, post-everything else era; I could have used a star's charisma to make this reconstituted stuff go down easier.
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