It’s all about the hats: “Immortals”

That sound you hear is Edith Hamilton spinning in her grave, and if you don’t hear anything, well, the effects will be felt soon enough, because if in the afterlife she’s seen any of Immortals and its casual butchery of Greek myth, then she’s certainly whirling fast enough down there to create her own gravity well. Bastardizing mythology is nothing new for Hollywood—witness Clash of the Titans or its remake—but its seldom you find one this simultaneously silly and self-important. This is a movie that aims to bowl us over with an epic hero story, while asking us to take seriously actors wearing goofy wire-hats, playing Greek gods.