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...they use the handsome carts to labor, seduce, and persecute. As a perfunctory nod to the French national motto, “liberté,” “égalité,” and “fraternité” are scrawled graffiti-like in blood-red paint on banners which loom in the rafters high above the stage...
...Misérables,” particularly in the case of the peasants. The actors are mostly clad in shabby fringed shawls, diaphanous white blouses, snug black corsets, and long, full skirts. Danton’s attire, however, is decidedly anachronistic, for he shambles about like a lazy grad student in untucked button-down and dark-wash jeans...
...motivations in the film are also shallower than one would hope for. Discovering that Ronnie’s dark secret is that she was arrested for shoplifting and that her father didn’t actually commit the crime he was accused of feels entirely anticlimactic. It constantly feels like the film takes the easy way out, resolving conflicts by claiming they were never serious to begin with. The film never embraces the darker emotional toll that one would expect of such a supposedly dysfunctional family...
...often easy to forget which movie is being watched. The visual look of the demons and monsters also seem borrowed from other films. Hades’ flying minions look like the death eaters from “Harry Potter,” the former king of Argos (Perseus’ third dad) evokes the image of Ephialties in “300,” and the steed-like giant scorpions are perhaps too similar in purpose to the elephants in “Return of the Kings...
Despite the bad dialogue, the clichéd characters, and the random tree-man with a grenade-like blue heart, “Clash of the Titans” is generally worth seeing. The film is fun and entertaining, both intentionally and unintentionally. Just don’t watch the film hoping to be awed by anything other than the special effects...