"Clash of 'Clash of the Titans': When Titans Clash"

How could anyone resist a blog post with a title like that one, by David Itzkoff in today's New York Times? And a first line, italicized: Warning: This post may contain spoilers and/or the Kraken. Itzkoff provides a Medusa-head-to-Medusa-head comparison between the 1981 classic and the current remake, including the following:

STATUS OF THE KRAKEN AT ROUGHLY THREE-FOURTHS OF THE WAY INTO THE FILM
Then: Released.
Now: Released.
Advantage: Draw

NUMBER OF CLASH SONGS USED
Then: 0
Now: 0
Advantage: Draw

IS THERE A SCENE IN WHICH A GUY GETS KNOCKED OVER BY A TIDAL WAVE AND YOU CAN SEE HE’S WEARING MODERN-DAY RUNNING SHORTS UNDERNEATH HIS ROBE?
Then: Yes.
Now: We didn’t see one.
Advantage: Then

The paper of record's full review is here (the plot is summarized thusly: "[T]here are titans, they clash....The finale, which lurches among locations, destroys all notion of time, space, sense.")

But all the Kraken-releasing fun won't lure me to the movie. I get sick in 3D films. Apparently, so do other people. I agree with Mary Elizabeth Williams, in Salon:

[I]f you want to spend 20 bucks to see Liam Neeson release the Kraken right into your lap, I say, knock yourself out. I’d just like the option of seeing that too -- in a format that won’t make me throw up.

Jeff and the kids love immersive movies...Avatar, even the goofy 3D ones you can watch on the basement bigscreen with cardboard glasses. Me, I'll stick to two dimensions and a plot, thank you very much!