Went and saw this last night. Anyone else go see it?
Honestly, i thought it was mediocre at best. I mean, it wasn't terrible, it was quite watchable, but the story was mashed up quite a bit, and it got a firm dose of hollywood "dazzle" on it.
Also: No mechanical owl (outside of a cameo)
One of the biggest things that irked me was the fact that they tried to make medusa look appealing, despite the fact that the movie itself claimed that "medusa was so ugly, men who see her turn to stone". So medusa had like a pretty-looking face, and the upper torso of a curvateous woman, with a snake lower body, and snakes for hair (if they didn't do THAT, i would kill someone)
edit: also, while i'm at it ranting about the movie, there's one other thing that was a fairly sizeable detrement to my enjoyment of the film.
This was the addition of a specific new character, who replaces andromeda as the love interest for perseus (andromeda is still in it and plays all the other same roles as before). They basically added a hollywood generic "Butt-kicking female" character to fill said role, likely to make it so that all the women in the movie weren't like "oh noes! We are weak and womanly, please save us big strong mens!" kinda how the older movie went down.
Now, i know this was likely because of the changes in society from then to today, and i dont have any problem generally with this type of character.
However, i do have a problem with them rewriting a classic, and adding something in only to appease a group of their audience, simply because of the mindset differences from now to then.