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Wrath Of The Titans

WRATH OF THE TITANS directed by Jonathan Liebesman, written by Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson from a story by Greg Berlanti, Johnson and Mazeau, with Sam Worthington, Rosamund Pike, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. A Warner Bros release. 99 minutes. Opens Friday (March 30). For venues and times, see Movies. Rating: NNN


It may not have a catchphrase as instantly quotable as “Release the Kraken!” but Wrath Of The Titans is a worthy successor to Louis Leterrier’s Clash Of The Titans. Set a decade or so after the first film, it features Sam Worthington’s demigod Perseus trying to live a humble human life only to be dragged back into the pantheistic fray when his half-brother Ares (Édgar Ramírez) betrays their father, Zeus (Liam Neeson), in a plot to unleash the monstrous Kronos from his prison in the underworld.

Like its predecessor, the action is near-constant, with Perseus racing from one mythological adventure to another. This time he’s accompanied by his comic-relief cousin Agenor (Toby Kebbell), son of Poseidon, and Andromeda (Rosamund Pike). And like its predecessor, it’s big and silly and kind of fun, with Worthington’s surly hero scraping up nicely against the loftier likes of Neeson’s Zeus, Ralph Fiennes’s Hades and Danny Huston’s Poseidon.

Director Jonathan Liebesman employs the same vérité style he used in Battle Los Angeles in the effects sequences, which would surely be just as powerful without the annoying post-conversion 3-D. Why they keep doing that only the gods know.

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