“Wrath of the Titans” could have been awesome, but it’s just one more reason not to waste your money on another sequel. Although I enjoyed the last one, I was hoping for something that packed a mightier punch than its predecessor, “Clash of the Titans.”
The storyline was pretty much the same and the action scenes were less than god like. The gods are dying because, like in “Clash of the Titans,” no one loves them again.
Zeus’ son Perseus (Sam Worthington) went back to being a fisherman, and he has a kid that Perseus has promised to keep from a warrior’s life. After Zeus (Liam Neeson) pleads with his demigod son to help, in a worn-out cliché plot twist, Perseus’ village is attacked by a chimera creature, which just looks like a Chinese dragon mated with an angry mole rat.
With the help of Agenor (Tobby Kebbell)- Poseidon’s demigod son, Andromeda (Rosamund Pike) and weapons inventor Hephaestus (Bill Nighy), Perseus fights his way through a labyrinth and the monsters lurking within. After teaming up with his Scooby Doo clan, the audience is left to wonder “will our amazing hero save the day by stopping his evil brother Ares and grandfather Kronos?”
So the movie is called, “Wrath of the Titans,” which implies there’s going to be a huge battle between Perseus and the Titans “West Side Story” style.
There’s just one: Kronos. He doesn’t do anything until the end of the movie because he’s weak and needs the power source of one of his children to come back and exact revenge. This part is possible, but it isn’t a plotline that grabs your attention.
It’s just tolerable. Why couldn’t Hades just release all of the Titans and let them wreak havoc on everyone? Mix that up with all of the Greek monsters, and you got gold. I’d rather have non-stop action with very little story than less than entertaining action and a boring plotline that goes in the same direction as the last.
When I was a kid I loved the original 1981 version of “Clash of the Titans,” and I think that might be the problem. If I would have seen the remake of “Clash and the Titans” and this sequel as an impressionable child, then went to watch the original, I would have cried myself to sleep or begged to go to Discovery Zone.
To go see it in 3-D would probably be a bigger waste. In a dream sequence, you see Kronos’ lava-rock hand smashing and tossing soldiers. This may be the one scene worth seeing in 3-D, but, even then, “Wrath of the Titans” isn’t worth the on-again off-again overpriced 3-D fad. All in all it is probably best to just stay at home and do homework than waste the 99 minutes watching “Wrath of the Titans.”