Well, yesterday I went to the IMAX for the first time, I don't know why I waited so long :), but that's no the point, the point is the movie, and I'm truly convinced that if I would have gone to a regular theater to watch the same movie would have been an immense waste of time.
Wrath of the Titans is an epic movie about Greek mythology with too much imagination or lack of basic information, so stop reading now if you don't want any spoilers, and still want to watch it on the theater.
It starts with Prietus son of Zeus being left behind because Zeus is accomplishing some sort of mission with Ares and Hades. Ares betrays his father and Hades as it's expected do as well. So they pretty much kill Poseidon and kidnap Zeus and take him to the underworld to be sucked to death by Cronos.
On the town, Prietus is suspicious when they get attacked by chimera, and he goes to the temple to call Zeus, but he just finds out an injured Poseidon which informs him about what happens, and gives him his trident, so he can find his son and give it to him which he actually does, but it happens to be his son is imprisoned for seducing and lying to the Queen.
In any case, they decide to go all together to the underworld to save Zeus. They find some cyclops which try to kill them, but end up helping them and taking them to Frizus (or something like that) the one who made the god's weapons. He decides to help to take them to the underworld through a labyrinth, but he got killed by Ares leaving the party even more reduced. The adventures find they way through the underworld, and liberate Zeus which is helped by Hades as well who feels bad about his actions.
Once on the surface, Prietus defy Ares to a fight so he can gets Zeus spear to kill Cronos, he succeed on this battle killing his brother and flying with Pegasus toward Cronos which is killing pretty much everyone on the surface. Zeus is helped by Hades who gives him part of his power, so they are both fighting Cronos. Zeus protects Hades from his death and Prietus kill Cronos with the lighting spear. He comes back to his father to see him dies on his hand, and Hades retrieves powerless. They all celebrate and Prietus gets the Queen all by himself.
Well, that is an very accurate description of the movie, now if you have ever read about Greek mythology you might know that Hades would never help Zeus, or try to revive his father which tried to eat him when they were little kids. Any human woman would have such a strong presence as the queen had, and the god's blacksmith wouldn't die on Ares hands.
Zeus loved his children, but he never had a favorite one, and in any case he felt more empathy for his god children than his half humans ones. Pegasus is not meant to be black, but that's an evil nice touch. Cyclops wouldn't stop to kill them just because he's Zeus son. In fact, they would never realize it fast enough for understanding the purpose. Cyclops don't speak English (or Greek for these matters)
The worst part is Hades having feelings, and offering his life for helping Zeus, that's the most unlikely thing to happen and I found it like a way of destroying instead of enhancing mythology, and overall the Queen was such an annoying protagonist with all her human talking that I was hoping she wouldn't do it out of the labyrinth.
On the other hand, this movie has awesome graphics and effects which makes it kind of likeable, but if you cannot process 200 frames per milisecond in a 3D environment you might end up dizzy. The amazingly big IMAX screen will definitively make you feel part of the movie, but the constant movement might drive you a little crazy.
The movie is a like a big no sense which awesome fighting scenes, so that might as well help it out, and the protagonist even not exactly being a bad one wasn't really strong enough for making a more appealing Greek hero.
If I would be a movie critic, I would give him 3/5 and 1 of those 3 is strictly a matter of graphics and environment because that story is fast driven but a killer machine for such a rich mythology which can be modified, but I think the director didn't go on the right direction.
You should go to watch it if you like movie effects and violence, but don't expect much of the story it doesn't have much to offer. Not even a comedy relieve which is nice, but it doesn't fit on this topic :)
By the way, I'm forgetting to mention that this is a sequel to Clash of the Titans, which I've never seen, but on my assumption, I would say it's poor continuation because it has some fillers for an unrelated story which I would think is the first part, but it doesn't look like developing the story even more.
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