'Greek Tales: Perseus' is best known for being Dingo Pictures' first animation and also for it being the only one to be fully digitally animated. Dingo Pictures' output was relatively obscure for some time, until they gained a deserved reputation for producing some of the worst animations to exist. Their output is universally reviled and one can see why, there are not many companies, animated and not, that have work that is consistently awful and only very bad at best. Dingo Pictures is one such company though.
Although 'Greek Tales: Perseus' is not their all time worst or quite one of them in my view (yes they did do even worse than this), it is still awful and absolutely nothing works. No wonder Dingo Pictures themselves were ashamed of it and had nothing else to do with it subsequently. All the usual flaws of Dingo Pictures' work are here in 'Greek Tales: Perseus', done as abominably as one expects, and there are even more flaws along the way. The idea was good, but the execution was sheer laziness in every area and its cheapness borders on disrespectful. If anybody wants to see some form of adaptation of a Greek legend, make sure it is not this one and make sure it is not your introduction.
Where to start? The animation is unspeakably bad, dreadful and visual eyesore-worthy at worst. It has flat colours, very simplistic backgrounds and lack of detail and derivative, shoddy, unfinished recycled and creepy character animation as well as a style that makes art of primary school children who draw, craft and paint in half an hour or less seem more accomplished. Medusa should be hideous and mysterious, but she certainly shouldn't look intelligence-insultingly ridiculous and cheap.
Music always sounds misplaced and never fitting with what's going on, not to mention that it has little breathing space even in scenes that are in dire need for it. The script is incredibly repetitive and juvenile, some of it making one question who the target audience was meant to be, that it will insult any adult is bad enough but even young children will feel dumber after hearing some of the dialogue here.
Absolutely nothing exciting or thrilling in this story, no tension, no suspense, no urgency. Just over-stretched, often aimless thinness that is so disorganised in structure that coherence can be an issue. The more action-oriented scenes look as cheap as one can get and have no lustre whatsoever.
Characters are excruciatingly irritating and a few irrelevant to the story. Not a likable or interesting character among them, with a lead character that has the personality of cardboard. Meanwhile, the sound effects are bizarre and randomly placed and the voice acting is amateurish even by low-budget animation standards, often being annoying, poorly recorded, creepy-sounding and incomprehensible and even ill-fitting.
In conclusion, awful and the most deserving recipient in months of my rare lowest possible rating. 1/10.
