Hercules

Yes I know, everyone loves this film, and I like it to. The animations is beautiful and it's vastly entertaining and I like the way they say and outcast can achieve something.. But it's the completely different from the myth of Hercules (or Heracles since that's what he's really called)so I'm going to type the bad points of this film. Boy I'm going to get a lot of bad commentary.

1. Hercules isn't the son of Zeus and Hera. (Or Jupiter and Juno since Hercules is Roman)
This is the big mistake. Zeus was Hercules' father but his mother was a mortal called Alcmene. He was born a demigod. And everyone says Hera tried to kill him several times, so I guess they are trying to avoid the fact his step mother tried to kill him several times, but now they are saying his MOTHER tried to kill him several times.

2. There was thirty-four titans.
In the film they said there was four titans, but there were more than four. Prometheus, Atlas, Kronos, Epimetheus, Metis, Rhea, Krios, guess which one of the titans are mentioned in this film. NONE OF THEM! They decided to make up titans who were the embodiements of lava, volcanoes, ice and tornadoes. None of the titans in actual myth was representing any of those georaphical catastrophies.

3. Megara wasn't a servant of Hades.
In the film, Megara was a woman who selled her soul to Hades to bring back her lover, but her lover was smitten by someone else, so now Megara is forever in Hades' grasp. That's an interesting story guys, but uh, there's a problem with that, what's that problem? Ah yes, THAT NEVER HAPPENED! She was a Theban princess who was given to Hercules because he helpt the Thebans fight against the Orchomenus. He married her because she was a gift. Not a servant to the god of the underworld and precious metals. (Yeah, no one else knows about that for some reason).

4. Philoctetes was not a trainer of heroes.
In the film Philoctetes is a satyr who trained heroes like Odysseus, Achilles, Jason, Perseus and Theseus. Now all the heroes are true mythological characters, but there is another problem. PHILOCTETES IS MADE UP. Yes I know eveyone else in this movie is made up but I mean like a film based on a video game has new characters nobody recognises. Philoctetes in actual myth was a famed archer in the Trojan war. He was mortal! The trainer of the gods was a centaur called Chiron, who was also the son of Kronos. What is Philoctetes doing in this film? Go away Phil!

5. The monsters aren't the ones Hercules fought.
In a cartoon montage, Hercules fights Medusa,a minotaur and a centaur. Er, Medusa was slayed by Perseus, not Hercules. Plus, why was the centaur evil? There friendly creatures, what's the producers' problem with centaurs?

6. The titans weren't released.
Hades meets 3 hags (who for some reason are a cross between the fates and the graeae). They predict that the titans will come back when the planets align. That didn't happen. The titans were trapped in Tartarus were there is no escape. How does the alignment of the planet release the titans any way.

7. Hercules didn't destroy the titans.
This is impossible. How can one demi-god, I repeat, ONE demi-god destroy the titans when in the war between the gods and titans (the titanomachy) was only able to destroy three titans? The gods were able to make punishments but that was all, if it was an army of demi-gods along with mythical creatures defeated the titans that would be believable, but just one!? And it wasn't the titans Hercules defeated, it was the Thracian giants, and it was the demi-gods working along with the gods who defeated the Thracian giants, not just one. He a demi-god, his immortal strength is limited.

So thats the problem (though there is a few more but this is my first blog and I don't want to much complaints). And I know everone hates me because I made a review against Disney's greatest animated film, but aparently, Greece was offended by this film. A Greek news article said "another case of foreigners distorting our history and culture just to suit their commercial interests" so I kind of understand why they are offended. Okay, so you probably hate me but I'm sorry, that's what I think of this film.