As they are estimates, there is what to raise the question. Does Date Night truly occupy the first place of the North American box office? With a variation of less than 200.000 $US of receipts between Date Night and Clash of the Titans, we can be certain of nothing.

It will be necessary to await the recorded numbers for the day of Sunday before being able to be sure that the two films are in the good place. It would seem that a difference of almost 1 million $US can be drawn between the estimates made by the production companies and the receipts really made at the end of the weekend.

For the moment, 20th Century Fox announced that its film Date Night had gained 27,1 $US million whereas Warner Bros. post profits of 26,9 $US million for Clash of the Titans.

The action comedy by Shawn Levy, Night Date, has just made its arrival in the North American rooms. The film in which play Tina Fey and the star of the TV series The Office, Steve Carell, tells the story of a couple in the search of a little prickly in their life. A small lie in a restaurant of New York will lead them to live all kinds of adventures through the city.

Even if the race does not seem not finished between the two chief candidates for this week, with the final classification, Clash of the Titans will finishe behind Date Night according to any logic. Considering the fact that the film by Louis Leterrier starts its second week since its release, it would be logic. This modern story of Greek mythology puts in scene the actor Sam Worthington in the role of Perseus, who will try to save his beloved Andromeda (Alexa Davalos).

Another new release this week is the family drama Letters to God. She’s Out of My League and Shutter Island as for them left top 10.

Poor variation on a raving success of the 1981 box-office, Clash of the Titans is all about its fabulous special effects, at the point to completely forget this premise with a high tragic potential concerning the revolt of human against the divine forces.

Perseus (Sam Worthington) is in anger. The gods killed his family and he seeks revenge. Since the malicious Hades (Ralph Fiennes) threat to destroy an important city by awaking the mythical monster Kraken, the young man decides to save its inhabitants. Thanks to the weapons and to the councils of his father, the very powerful Zeus (Liam Neeson), he is able to cut through a path to the three diabolic witches, sailing on Styx until the cruel medusa whose head proves to be the supreme weapon.

Strongly inspired by Star Wars, the first version of Clash of the Titans, directed by Desmond Davis, could charm with its laughable special effects from the legendary Ray Harryhausen. The thing is that the story, already obsolete at the time, proved to be a pleasant but strongly forgettable adventure dominated by the dashes of the heart. Nothing really edifying, only a simple entertainment, a guilty pleasure as well as the movies Legend by Ridley Scott and Willow by Ron Howard.

As recycling is often used in Hollywood, here is a new version more or less faithful to the original which preserves nevertheless the essence of the narrative screen. The mandate was entrusted to Louis Leterrier, and as he had done with its disappointing The Incredible Hulk, he offers a higher bid of special effects, as spectacular as you could imagine. The combat with these giant scorpions is a great purple passage, just like the vibrating confrontation with the girl with the snake hair and these flown away on the back of Pegasus.

All that is quite beautiful (even if the effects in three dimensions are used absolutely for nothing), but that does not make a feature-length film for as much. Not surprising that the Lord of the Ring trilogy lasted more than three hours. It took time to develop its characters, bringing a share of humanity to them, obliging them to make tearing choices. Not at all here in Clash of the Titans. The diagrammatic scenes connect the muscular moments without ever being delayed with the story, which gives the final large damp squib, an explosive stew which does not have anything with what to stick.

The overall result is obviously not too serious and the winks abound. It is however insufficient to spend one good moment and to even be diverted. The characters have even less imposing presence than in the first version (it is a big achievement!) and the good ideas in the scenario (for example this confrontation between Zeus and Hades) never succeed. Seen for the last time in the same sign in unforgettable Schindler’s List, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes sabotage their talent by delivering pathetic involuntarily comic counterparts and. As for Sam Worthington, he proves, a few months after Avatar, that he does not have the charisma of his physique, and even less the imposing presence.

Instead of biting the ambrosia and to reach immortality, this second reading of Clash of the Titans looks like a vulgar Cyclops who, from his only eye, only thinks of threading the maximum of action scenes action in a record time, without anything very solid to offer in return. Not surprising that the foundations collapse with the first clap Olympia’s thunder, and that the spectators, in front of so much interchangeable moments, only think of joining the arms of Morpheus, almost regretting the recent and inconsistent Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Chris Columbus which proved to be a minimally interesting motion picture.

The movie Clash of the Titans produces by Warner Bros and carried out by Louis Leterrier is at the head of the North-American box-office.

This feature film shows in particular the Sam Worthington who played in Avatar. The film was made in 2D format and was transformed into 3D thereafter.

It is remake of a film published on the screens in 1981 which tells the myth of Perseus and his search to fight the Medusa and Kraken with an aim to save the Andromeda princess.

Danny Huston, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Mads Mikkelsen also form part of the distribution.

Another new movie arrives at the second place of the classification with 30.2 $US million. Tyler Perry’ S Why Did I Get Married Too? puts in scene Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson. A couple leaves every winter with friends to give a progress report on their marriage. A young lady will sow the disorder in the small community.

The movie How to Train Your Dragons which was first of the box-office last week falls in the third place with 29.2 $US million. In ten days, the film obtained 92,3 $US million of benefit.

Miley Cyrus arrives at the cinema with a new film The Last Song which collects 16.2 $US million. The story proceeds in a coastal small town of the United States where a father has the chance to spend the summer with his daughter. He will try to approach her thanks to the music.

Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton is still in 5th place with 8.3 $US million. The film obtained 722 $US million of profits in the world from its release.