By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel
Here we are, back at the end of the world in 2012. Only this time it’s 2012 BCE, as the gods of Olympus set out to take humans of early Greek civilization back to the stone age in a fit of Olympian pique.
Warner Bros. has revived “Clash of the Titans,” the ultimate ’80s “sword and sorcery” epic, as a vehicle showing off the state of movie special effects in 3D. The new film even references and scoffs at one of the puppet-animation characters (the mechanical owl) from the original 1981 film, as if to say, “Look what we can do now.”
What we can do now makes for a sometimes fun ride, a digital bastardization of Greek mythology with digital eagles, giant scorpions, wraiths and a Kraken — the sea beast to end all sea beasts.