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Clash Of The Titans [DVD] [1981]

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  • Actors: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom, Ursula Andress, Sian Phillips
  • Directors: Desmond Davis
  • Format: PAL, Subtitled
  • Language: English, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 21 Nov. 2005
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (127 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000B7KXNG
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,231 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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In this star-studded film, the Greek gods on Mount Olympus watch Perseus (Harry Hamlin) and his love, Andromeda (Judi Bowker), in clashes against various mythological monsters. The special effects bring these monsters to life and even enable Pegasus to fly.

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The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, and answering riddles. The result is a timeless adventure that’s a treat for kids and adults.

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As a new breed of filmmakers had arrived on the scene to reinvent the fantasy genre, armed with a mix of traditional and cutting edge special effects, Ray Harryhausen was most certainly 'old school' and his final film as producer/animator looks an uneasy match between more polished looking filmmaking and - let's be honest - slightly outdated animation techniques. Viewing the film recently, it has to be said that some of the monsters in 'Clash of the Titans' are not Harryhausen's best and some animation looks oddly out of place with the rest of the film. As much as I love Harryhausen, and as much as I love 'Clash of the Titans', it was certainly time to go.

Saying that, however, 'Clash of the Titans' is a rollicking good yarn with lots of monsters in! And even though it looks a little creaky, some scenes are heart-stopping - especially the Medusa scene which has to be Harryhausen's finest moment. I forgot how atmospheric and creepy it was. I came face to face with Medusa at a Harryhausen exhibition a number of years ago and she is a wondrous and chilling creation.

The film itself is a series of fragmentary myths and legends healed onto a rather oddly structured quest movie. What should be the main bulk of the film (the search for Medusa and the race back to free Andromeda) actually transpires in the last 35 minutes of the movie. The first hour is taken up with Perseus solving the riddle to win Andromeda's hand in marriage. It's rather languid, but that's not a put down. The second half feels more rushed as a result.

The acting is, generally, fine. The Stygian Witches let the side down with lots of screeching and cackling and OTT campery.
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At the time regarded as a disappointment but now something of a minor classic whose reputation seems to have grown massively in the wake of its recent very loose remake, the original 1981 version of Clash of the Titans is far from the best of the Ray Harryhausen fantasy adventures. A lavish retelling of the Perseus and Andromeda myth with an ill-assorted all-star cast who mostly give the impression of slumming it - Laurence Olivier, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom, Ursula Andress, Flora Robson and a pre-L.A. Law Harry Hamlin - it drew unfavourable comparisons with Jason and the Argonauts on its original release and was overshadowed by the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark that Summer, but now its reputation seems safely assured in the memories of those who saw it often enough in their childhood to ensure its profitability.

Part of the appeal of Harryhausen's films, and the reason the special effects man is regarded as their auteur rather than their generally forgotten directors or his undervalued producer Charles H. Schneer, is their hand-crafted nature. The effects were never photo-realistic, but they created their own sense of magic even if the creatures were always in much sharper focus than the grainy live-action background shots. Despite having the biggest budget of any of his pictures - a then massive $15m that allowed Harryhausen to have assistants for the only time in his career - it has some of the weakest special effects in any Harryhausen film. The stop motion animation is still excellent, particularly Steve Archer's work on the flying horse Perseus, but the integration and compositing is often very poor, giving thick blue outlines to many of the `mythologicals' or setting them against especially grainy live action footage.
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Seeing this a long time after the event, I was initially struck by how dated it seemed. Having said this, Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion creatures still look great, the Medusa especially, and despite the overly groomed and extravagantly coiffured look that is showcased by the cast, Harry Hamlin, Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier and co do a good job with a fairly poor script. Once things get going the story zips along, and for its age it actually stands up very well.
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I hate it when people moan on how out of date this brillant film is, how the moan on about how bad the visuals are, but with out this film and many other of Ray's film effects we would not have the likes of Peter Jacksons "King Kong" today.

Look at the films good points, good story, brillant actors, fanatastic monsters.

This film is a classic and should be respected as one.

Show it your children and let then marvel in a hey day of exellent films made to keep you on the edge of your seat as a child.

One of my all time greats and a treasured memory too.
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage.

Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess's former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis.

In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken...

Greek mythology is a thing of wonderment, anyone can tell you a story about a part beast, part human being with powers that would kill a mortal man until the cows come home, and it wouldn't be boring, all you need is a good moral, set up, and a good wholesome hero.

Which this film has in droves. Admittedly, the first act is a little bit on the boring side, with Laurence Olivier loving every minute playing the God of Gods and barking orders to everyone while sitting in front of some nice strobe lighting.

When the second act starts, thats when the film picks up and we get to see what we all wanted to see, stop-motion monsters!! We do get a sub-plot featuring Burgess Meredith as a sort of ancient Greek Micky, giving advice to Hamlin, but we are more interested in his quest to feat the Kraken.

It runs at an okay pace, but it's just too campy to be boring in any way. So we follow Hamlin on his adventure, along with Pegasus and a robotic owl that is in no way based on R2-D2.

the set pieces are great, and the Medusa scene is still as eerie and tense as i can remember it to be. Although it's not a classic movie, it's still fun and scary in places, but predictably some of the effects look a little dated now, but they still work in some scenes.

A good old fashioned adventure movie.
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