Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Clash of the Titans (Clam) [VHS]







Clash of the Titans (Clam) [VHS] Overview


You have a classic tale full of drama, passion, and adventure. A tale of universal archetypes that speak to everyone. A tale that has remained unfailingly popular for thousands of years. Why not spice it up with a wacky mechanical owl? Such was the thinking behind Clash of the Titans. Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, and Harry Hamlin (one of these things is not like the others...) star in a toga-ripper about a valiant hero, capricious immortals, and lots and lots of giant stop-action monsters. Perseus (Hamlin) is the favored son of the god Zeus (Olivier), but he has unwittingly ticked off the sea goddess Thetis (Smith). Just to make things worse, Perseus falls in love with the lovely Princess Andromeda, who used to be engaged to Thetis's son. Soon Perseus is off on one quest after another, with Zeus helping, Thetis hindering, and lots of innocent bystanders getting stabbed, drowned, and squished. Of course, the whole thing is just an excuse to show as much of Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion animation as possible, and good thing too. It's an old technique, but it still looks pretty darn cool, and it means the cast can just relax and do a bunch of reaction shots. Don't use this one to study for that big classical mythology exam, but if you just turn your brain off and enjoy the Kraken, it's pretty good fun. --Ali Davis


Customer Reviews


The original Clash of the Titans (1981) is perhaps best known as the last film by Ray Harryhausen. The film is often disparaged, but it is truly representative of Harryhausen skills as an entertainer and a must for lovers of fantasy films are cheese. A young actor Harry Hamlin as Perseus wearing a toga demigod, a weather Lawrence Olivier as Zeus, and a series of famous actresses like goddesses, the film was not a big stickler for historical details. Nowhere in the greek myth, for example,a meeting a giant sea monster called Kraken City-destruction (for this we must Scandinavian folk-style). Even this does not seem to steal a scene mechanical owl Bubo name in one of the ancient scrolls of Homer or Hesiod. In 1980, the film by many as a Class B was to be part of feta. However, Ray Harryhausen made masterful stop-motion effects made it popular among young viewers, and became a cult classic almost overnight.



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