YMMV / Wrath of the Titans

• Anti-Climax Boss: The minotaur was beaten surprisingly quickly.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In the sequel there are a couple of times in the Labyrinth where Andromeda thinks she sees Korrina walking around and Perseus sees Helius. There is a line from Hephaestus referencing possible hallucinations — but it's not drawn attention to that much. Also when Perseus is separated from the others, he's attacked by a minotaur. After he kills it, it's not mentioned again and there are no other monsters put as obstacles in the Labyrinth.
• Broken Aesop: Same as the first movie, it makes a point of "humanity doesn't need gods". The operative issue here is that gods and demigods are, literally speaking, sacrificing themselves in droves to protect mankind and the only thing standing between mankind and utter annihilation.
• Complete Monster: Ares, the god of war, is the disloyal son of Zeus, who sides with Hades as the Titans awaken. While Hades is motivated by his fear of death and ultimately redeems himself, Ares is completely unrepentant and is Driven by Envy of Zeus showing favor to his demigod son Perseus. Ares and Hades sell out Zeus and the other gods to die to awaken Kronos in exchange for being spared, during which Ares needlessly beats and tortures Zeus in captivity. Ares later kills some of his mortal followers, impaling and tossing aside a devout worshiper who prayed to him for salvation and tried to appeal to him. When Zeus manages to reach out to Hades, Ares immediately tries to kill Hades and proceeds with awakening Kronos to wipe out the world, mortally wounding Zeus in the process. During the final battle, Ares takes Perseus's young son Helius captive intending to force him to watch as he kills his father.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Hephaestus, thanks to being a hilarious Large Ham played by Bill Nighy.
• Funny Moments:
  • Agenor and Hephaestus are a riot at times.
    Agenor: I realize that amidst our hostilities this is the last thing you want to do, but... follow me.
    [our heroes follow him as he strides down the hall, takes a right... then reappears and goes the other way]
  • Pegasus hitting Perseus over the head with his wing after they land.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Liam Neeson is the one in danger.
  • Rosamund Pike and Lily James star as friends. Pike had already played Jane Bennett in Pride & Prejudice (2005). James would eventually play Jane's younger sister Lizzie...in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
  • Heck, even the fights against the Titans might get interesting when you find out about Attack on Titan. It even has an arc of the same name.
• Moment of Awesome
  • Perseus taking down the Chimera.
    • Offscreen Moment of Awesome but the Greek army with heavy causalities took down three!
  • Agenor's I Am Not Left-Handed moment. When we first see him he is chained, hands and legs cuffed, and is getting manhandled by a guard, and looks like a bum and a loon. When Perseus's words stir up his daddy issue? He just shrugs his shoulder and the soldier gets Punched Across the Room. Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass indeed.
  • The fight against the Cyclopses.
  • Ares Dynamic Entry as listed in the main page, followed by him utterly curbstomping everyone present, with them escaping with their lives only due to Hephaestus's Heroic Sacrifice was definitely a villainous moment of awesome.
    • The aforementioned sacrifice.
  • The Labyrinth itself.
  • The battle between Perseus and Ares.
  • Hades performing a Heel–Face Turn was one of the most honorable deeds in the entire film.
  • Zeus and Hades against the Legions of Hell at full power.
    Hades: We have no weapons.
    Zeus: We had power before we had weapons.
    Hades: When we were young gods.
    Zeus: Yes... Let's have some fun.
  • The fight against Cronos by Perseus.
  • They might be twisted, Body Horror bad guys, but watching the Makhai run and spin and cut and wound and carve and cleave their way through soldiers as if it were no thing is rather awesome.
    • Andromeda and her soldiers teaming up and taking down one. Not so Puny Humans anymore huh?
    • Few more die to a catapult, and when one shruggs of a spike through its chest, Agenor finishes him off.
    • Blink and miss, but Andromeda actually stops a sword swing from one of the superstrong Makhai.
• Retroactive Recognition: John Bell, who would go on to join Luke Evans in The Hobbit. It also has Lily James as Korrina.
• Strangled by the Red String: Perseus and Andromeda kiss at the end. They hadn't really had much in the way of romantic development, aside from clear tension when they first meet again. In the movie's defence it's entirely a Maybe Ever After situation. Likewise a third film was planned, but eventually dropped, so presumably the romance would have been developed a lot more in that.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: A few audience members were more acceptive than the predecessor, with a few highlights being a whole new story and actually putting effort into the 3D effects.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Poseidon, who dies fairly early.
• Too Cool to Live: Hephaestus.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The film's special effects are spectacular, most notably Kronos, who's essentially a walking volcano of death and destruction. He's truly a sight to behold.

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