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Simply A Masterpiece

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Crappy film

A Masterpiece!

Watched recently with my daughter who is a huge fan of the books. She had sworn she would never watch it because she was so aggravated at the first one. For some reason she decided she wanted to see how bad it was. She ranted through the entire movie. It's been a while, but I read the first series. She is rereading them so it was fresh in her mind. We both decided they rewrote almost the entire movie. Much has been covered in other reviews, so I'm going to stick mostly with what I haven't seen mentioned, 2 points of which we thought were the most aggreageous. First, how do you get the mythology wrong, in both movies? Admittedly the first movie was the more glaring. Having Persephone in the Underworld at that time of year destroys the entire myth, but this one wasn't much better. Kronos was not just evil. He swallowed his children to prevent a prophecy that one of them would overthrow him. However, he did not swallow Zeus as his wife tricked him into swallowing a stone instead. Zeus grew up in hiding and then freed his siblings from inside Kronos and then they defeated Kronos. They completely destroyed the character of Luke along with the story of the cursed blade. Luke's story is tragic and complicated, but there are 4 events that lead to his being vulnerable to Kronos, each one making him angrier and more bitter. One of them, however, is the death of Thalia, which could easily have been covered. While he does poison Thalia, he does not intend for her to die. He planned to return with the fleece and cure her once he resurrected Kronos. He believed she would join him. Note too that Kronos appears in his dreams and plays on his anger. There is some indication Kronos may even be influencing him. He also doesn't die here. Near the end he resurrects Kronos by serving as his vessel. But Luke then fights back. Eventually he sacrifices himself to prevent Kronos full return and is recognized as a hero. His last words are a plea to Percy to take care of the others like him to make sure this never happens again. The cursed blade is celestial bronze and steal molded together, so it can kill both nonhumans and humans. It's an abomination and should not exist, but is given to Luke by Kronos. He calls it Backbiter. It is not Percy's sword, and neither Percy nor Thalia is the child in the prophecy. The child is Luke, and he saves Olympus with his sacrifice. Why they changed the story I cannot fathom. It's a much more powerful story as written. I understand that changes have to be made in transferring to film, but the Harry Potter series did it and managed to not only keep the main plot and spirit of the books, but by starting with actors of the right age, also covered the entire series. Having seen that it can be done just makes the Percy movies all the more disappointing. Our only saving grace is it has been confirmed there will be no more. Maybe a few years from now Fox, who owns the film, tv, and game rights, will get a clue and redo the series properly. My daughter and I think it would make a great animated series for television. There are no limits or time pressures in animated, so they could pretty much stick to the story, treating each book as a season. Then we could all get together and burn the discs for the movies.

Just like others said: the movie has nothing to do with the books! Event though usually the books are better than the movies, in this case the movies are a great embarassment for the books. The movie team could do better with so many little details that count very much!

Hollywood, the news and even the government are bombarding us with anti bullying campaigns, which is fine by me. However, this imbecilic film opens with some girl, 1/2 half daughter of a forgotten deity pounding bullying comments, on this Percy Jackson character, another hero (1/2 son of another forgotten deity), with apparently no powers bestowed on him. Her tirade goes on for the entire film, until at the end, this shy hero that would put Achilles, Hercules or any of the like to shame, saves the day. But, what bothers me more than anything, is that in these 20 pages of extended comments, by a bunch of (actually I don't know who you people are) did not notice. I understand that Clarisse is the bully of the camp and so on; but really, if Hollywood actually omitted so many things from the books, Hollywood should have omitted this distasteful character. STOP THE BULLYING Hollywood!

PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS is a follow-up to PERCY JACKSON & THE LIGHTING THIEF, itself an adaptation of the debut novel in the popular young adult series by Rick Riordan. I mildly enjoyed the first film in the series, but this unfocused sequel is a lot worse; despite the plethora of on-screen action, not much actually seems to happen and it all rings rather false and hollow.This time, Percy and his buddies old and new find themselves embarking on a quest narrative to retrieve the Golden Fleece, of all things. There are various MacGuffins in the film, none of them particularly interesting or plausible, but what is apparent is the debt this series owes to Harry Potter. There are kids on the run, flying cars, magic sprays that change appearance, and plenty more besides. Inevitably Harry Potter got there first and did it better, leaving this all rather redundant.It doesn't help that the characterisation is kept to a bare minimum. Logan Lerman's hero is a dullish type and Alexandra Daddario struggles to shine as the token love interest. Speaking of tokenism, the comic relief black sidekick is still really clichéd and unfunny. The big guest stars have gone from the original film to be replaced by the likes of Anthony Head and Stanley Tucci, alongside a cameoing Nathan Fillion. For 90% of the running time, PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS consists of CGI-heavy action. Some of the effects are pretty good but as is generally the case with such films, it becomes tiresome very quickly.