Hasta La Motion!

First off… a non-technical critique… I didn’t realize that the ancient Greeks had electric hair shears on board their fishing boats to keep their hair nicely cropped to a military buzz cut.

I don’t know what they were thinking, but Perseus looked soooo out of place in that movie. He looked like a Marine in a skirt the whole time. At least Harry Hamlin had the epic locks to back up his character back in the ’81 original.

Now on to the 3D… ugh…

The movie was originally shot in 2D and then retrofitted to be 3D. It shows!

Maybe it was the theater I saw the movie at, but I swear, the ‘3D’ of the characters looked as if they took it into After Effects, duplicated the foreground layer, moved it back slightly in z-space and then said "look… it’s 3D."

Early on, there was a helicopter shot over some mountains that also screamed 2.5D flat layers in a 3D space.

The various ‘sparkly’ shots such as the first shot of Zeus up on Mount Olympus looked like an ad for GenArts Sapphire plug-in presets.

Not to completely dig on them… I did think some of the shots of Hades materializing were pretty well done.

However, the very first time we see Hades when he’s looking down at the fishing boat I could’ve sworn that it was Kevin Nealon in a Hades outfit instead of Ralph Fiennes!

What did you guys think?