What's it all About? There's these three gods see, Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. A ye olde Larry, Mo and Curly if you will. They fight like brothers do until a line is crossed by the evil one Hades (we know he's evil because he has a pointy black beard). He makes a deal with his nephew Ares, the petulant one and Kronos, the titanous one. It's kind of like a comic book super villain team-up but without the capes. Anywho, these bad boys decide to lay the smack down on Zeusy and Poseidon. It falls to the kiddies to pick up the slack and Perseus (Zeus' son) and Agenor (Poseidon's sprog) must don the helms, grab the cutting devices and venture to the underworld (which seems to be in the centre of the earth!?) to rescue the oldies.
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| Dumbledore makes a surprise cameo |
Best bits? The action scenes are slick, fast and frenetic and unlike films such as Transformers, which use super fast edits, the action is easy to follow.
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| My what big hands you have |
Did it make you think thoughts? Here's the situation. The previous Titans film, Clash of, was pretty bad (although watchable) and I knew coming in, this incarnation would likely ire me as well. The thing is I'm a sucker for a good sword and sandal fantasy yarn with wild overblown creatures and in your face cgi action. But there still has to be an interesting story. The story here is dull as dishwater. In fact, dirty dishwater at least has the fact that it is dirty going for it. Wrath on the other hand has....well.....hhhmm....it had a bucket load of cash spent on it splashed up there on the screen for all to see. But do I care? No not really.
As far as the rest goes I have a new pet peeve. Bad scripts use to be my nemesis but I can now somewhat forgive this as long as the right character/actor is spewing the tosh. What I really can't stand is miscasting. Here we have a corker. Rosamund Pike step forward please. Ros plays Queen Andromeda, army leader and supposed bad ass double hard action gal. Oh dear. She is so badly miscast in this role I cringed every time she did or said anything. Fail. Also, whilst Sam Worthington might look the part, his wooden acting, poor delivery and annoying Australian accent is another fail for me.
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| Is that really how you hold a bow? |
A final thought I had was that the whole film was building towards the mighty powerhouse villain Kronos making an appearance followed by the smiting of his enemies. This didn't really happen and the final battle was way too brief. A missed opportunity me thinks.
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| Here's our bad guy during his 5 minute screen time |
Would you watch it again? Um. I probably would, especially before the inevitable sequel rears it's ugly monsterish head.
Rating (out of 100%): It sounds like this is a turkey and it is but it's my kind of turkey. I give Wrath of the Titans a 'Is that a trident in your pocket?' 65%
Right, now I'm off to be let down by another fantasy film, John Carter. Wish me luck.
