Unless the 2011 Oscars plan to introduce categories for Best 300 Imitation or Most Bafflingly Highbrow Cast In A Film About Some Giant Scorpions, March's Clash of the Titans remake doesn't look as if it will trouble too many award ceremonies.

But the Clash of the Titans trailer? Different matter entirely. Because if the Clash of the Titans trailer isn't recognised for its sterling contribution to the canon of shriekingly awful movie taglines, then there's simply no justice in the world.

First, let's just put the movie into context. It's a film called Clash of the Titans. In Clash of the Titans, a number of titans take it upon themselves to clash with each other, to presumably spectacular effect. Now, knowing this, what do you think the producers chose to use as the movie's tagline? Remember – there are titans in the film, and they mainly clash in it. Give up? It's – brace yourselves – Titans Will Clash.

Titans Will Clash. That's genuinely the best thing that anybody in the whole of Warner Brothers could come up with. Titans Will Clash. Repeat it all you want, it doesn't get any less idiotic. In fact, Titans Will Clash doesn't work on any discernible level. If you've seen the original movie, or heard of the original movie, or heard of the remake, or have the mental capacity to read the words "Clash of the Titans" and understand that the film will probably have some clashing and some titans in it, the tagline becomes utterly redundant.

And if you've settled down to watch the trailer with no prior knowledge or understanding of the film's central premise – despite all the relentless images of titans and clashing contained within – then it's bound to come as a gigantic spoiler. Titans will clash? Oh great, no point seeing it now. Thanks a lot, idiot.

This trend for pointlessly literal taglines had better not catch on. Alice In Wonderland had better not run with the tagline Alice Will Go To Wonderland. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader had better not run with Dawn Will Be Trodden On. The DVD release of Avatar had better not run with A Blue Thing Will Sort Of Swing About For An Unnecessarily Long Time And You'll Ooh And Aah And Then Go Home Feeling A Bit Empty. Or maybe it should. It'd be accurate, at least.

Needless to say, Clash of the Titans isn't the first movie to employ a gormless tagline. Rocky II's Rocky Shows He's A Champ… And Wins! gave away the movie's ending to anybody who happened to stroll past a poster, like if The Crying Game was advertised by the line OMG! She's Got A Todger! Then there was Crank 2's He Was Dead... But He Got Better, which seemed to infuriate the website for about half an hour last year. And my personal favourite from 1982's Silent Rage – Science Created Him. Now Chuck Norris Must Destroy Him. But for sheer breathtaking inanity, Clash of the Titans is up there with the best of them.

A good tagline should do one of two things. It should either provoke curiosity or wry amusement – like In Space No One Can Hear You Scream from Alien or You Won't Believe Your Eye from Monsters, Inc – or it should trumpet the film as the most magnificent picture ever, like Gone With The Wind's tagline The Most Magnificent Picture Ever. All Titans Will Clash does is alert you to the fact that some titans will clash, which has already been communicated by all the clashing titans in the trailer and the fact that the film's called Clash of the Titans in the first place.

We could do a better job of creating a tagline for Clash of the Titans. And we should. What would get the film's message across better? Liam Neeson Is Basically Playing God ... Again? Yes, We Liked 300 Too? Let me know your ideas below.