Parents' Guide to

Clash of the Titans

By Jeffrey M. Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 9+

Kids will find this FX-heavy fantasy epic a bit dated.

Movie PG 1981 118 minutes
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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Community Reviews

age 11+

Based on 17 parent reviews

age 9+

Trying to figure out constant system

I am planning on watching this movie with my daughter. I came on here to see reviews and what stood out to others, as I haven't watched it in a while. I am really surprised that this movie gets 3 for sex since it has someone breastfeeding her child and a woman nude after a bath (neither of which have anything to do with sex!) and Independence Day (another movie we are considering) gets a 2 when it has a strip club scene. It makes things a bit confusing.
age 13+

Great adventure movie!

This is far better than the newer version of Clash of the Titans. We really enjoyed it as a family, but it should be rated PG-13! There were a few scenes of naked breasts and behinds, and it definitely had blood and violence. There was also talk between the gods of Zeus sleeping with many women, and the words "making love" were mentioned. But there was no more actually shown than kisses. The monsters would be scary to younger children, but not for a 13 year old. We love this old movie. It's a great adventure plot, and good acting.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (17 ):
Kids say (20 ):

Though CLASH OF THE TITANS can hardly be called a good movie, it has a certain quality -- a combination of camp and nostalgia -- that makes it appealing. Ray Harryhausen's visual effects were, and still are, the high point. His old-fashioned stop-motion animation reached a new complexity here, though some of it obviously works better than the rest. A "cute" little robot owl is all too clearly an attempt to copy Star Wars. But the Medusa sequence, especially, is a delightful high point.

And certainly the original mythology is interesting as well. But Desmond Davis' direction lies somewhere between wooden and leaden, the young cast is pretty and vacant, and the veterans, including Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, and Claire Bloom, look bewildered and bored. It all goes on far too long, but the underlying themes of the original story are intact and leave some food for thought, even today.

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