I'm growing bored with people judging this movie on how it looks. Get over it. I've seen plenty of awesome movies that had terrible art direction. Spirits Within had considerably better CG and was a much worse movie.

And it's more the trailer trying to cash in on 300 than anything else. Considering the movie was written a few years before anyone had even heard of 300 (the movie, anyway). There's a few epic battle moments in the movie that remind me of it, but 300 is certainly not the first movie to be epic.