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After saving the life of his royal father's usurper, Jason is encouraged by the conniving murderer to lead a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.
"Jason and the Argonauts" features some of Harryhausen's most memorable stop-motion creations, including the giant bronze statue Talos and a creepy army of swordfighting skeletons.
The $3 million film has a workable scenario and has been directed resourcefully and spiritedly by Don Chaffey, under whose leadership a colorful cast performs with zeal.
This absurd, unwieldy adventure -- if that's the word -- is no worse, but certainly no better, than most of its kind.
May 09, 2005
TIME Magazine
The straight story of Jason's exploits, told with magic and imagination and a minimum of studio trickery, might have been delightful. This version is more bull than Bulfinch.
Special-effects buffs generally cite this 1963 effort by Ray Harryhausen as the master's masterpiece, and his work does a great deal to enliven the tired plot and vacuous stars.