However, Clash of the Titans is nonetheless more ripe for a 21st century re-envisioning than many other films that have been remade over the years, with today’s advanced visual effects technologies allowing the filmmakers to really do justice to the film’s many monsters. As with any remake of a classic film, there has been a fair amount of backlash aimed at this 21st century take on the 1981 classic Ray Harryhausen stop motion film.

For right now, though, we have the eagerly anticipated remake of classic 1981 film Clash of the Titans. This year has already seen the release of Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief, a children’s fantasy film which provides a very loose interpretation of aspects from Greek myth while in development project Dawn of War aims to provide a more literal take on the mythos. The real hot property, however, is Greek mythology. Mythology is very popular in Hollywood right now, as evidenced in the release this week of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon which plays on Viking mythology and in the May release of Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time which finds its inspirations in Persian mythology.

Clash of the titans rating review