Perseus

The myth has everything. First, the rash promise to the king that must then be fulfilled. Then the divine gifts: winged sandals so the hero can fly, a cap to make him invisible. For monsters, there is not only the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa, but also the Sea Serpent, and the Gray Women, two old hags who share one eyeball between them. Finally there is the daring rescue of Princess Andromeda, daughter of the darkly beautifuland evilCassiopeia. Into this realm of fairy tale, however, steps a very ordinary and rather inept young man, a self-proclaimed agnostic who doesn't believe in Zeus or any of the whole "criminal pantheon" as he calls the Olympian gods, and yet he is the one chosen by them to be an epic hero. Sparks fly as myth crashes into reality, nowhere more evident than when Perseus in one of his early experiments with flight nearly crashes into the nude Andromeda, chained to the rocky cliff. Rocky also is the relationship formed by this unlikely pair as they are thrown together for the remainder of his journey. Yet, out of their improbable romance an offbeat love develops. And Perseus, reluctant hero though he may be, is ultimately transformed, having ventured into the landscape of myth.