This movie has great effects, true, but the story is very different from the book, practicallly it doesn't make any sense anymore :-/ It starts with Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Zeus (Sean Bean) fighting because Zeus accuses him of using his son to steal his Lightning. "don't steal my thunder!" :lol: okay he didn't say that! :lol: Poseidon says he hasn't seen his son since he was born, and it's Zeus' fault for forbidding it. Then we meet Percy Jackson, who likes to be in the water, and can stay at the bottom of the pool for seven minutes no problem, which is quite a stupid thing, actually, because he can't hold his breath for so long. In the book Percy could breath under water (not hold his breath forever) but here Percy doesn't do that because he doesn't know that he can!! From time to time Percy hears his father's voice in his head, helping him. At a museum, Percy is attacked by his teacher Mrs Doods, who trasforms into a fury, but goes away simply after teacher Mr Brunner alias Chiron (Pierce Brosnan) threatens her, which is very simple, right? Go away! and she goes away... wow. easy! Percy is played by Logan Lerman, who was already 18 and although he can pass for 16, they never say clearly his age, but for sure it's not 12 like in the book!
Anyway, like in the book, we meet his mother Sally (Catherine Keener) and Gabe (Joe Pantoliano), then Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) tells them they have to go. Sally Jackson leaves immediately and drives them , but they are attacked by a Minotaur. They run away, but she can't enter the Camp HalfBlood because she isn't one, she's completely mortal: she seemed to know so much and yet she didn't know this?
The minotaur gets her, but she disappears in light, and Percy goes back out of the camp to fight him.
Once back inside, he watches Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario) fighting, and that was just embarassing :lol: she was very pretty for sure, but couldn't even pretend to fight :lol: That won't be much of a problem though, since it appears that in this film Percy can also cure others, not just himself, with water, even pool water!
At the camp, they all already know who he is , a demigod, son of a mortal and a God. During a campfire, Hades appears among the flames because more special effects can do no damage in a film like this, specially if you consider that they are the best thing about it.
Our trio wants to sneak out at night to go to the underworld to get his mother back, there's just a little detail: they have no idea where to go or what to do... so Annabeth gives her only contribution: let's ask Luke!!
Luke (Jake Abel) gives them a pair of flying shoes that he stole from his father Hermes, a cool shield and a map with the locations where they can find three magic pearls, the only way to get out of the underworld. Apparently Hades doesn't have a faithful wife, here, and she gives these pearls to her lovers to be able to get out afterwards. So just like in Dragonball they're off to find the pearls and collect them all! It's a pity that none of them can count, not even Annabeth daughter of the goddess of wisdom and intellectual work, could figure out that if three persons want to take someone else out of the underworld maybe three pearls might not be enough... anyway, they start their search following what the map tells them: place n.1 Auntie Em's emporium, they meet Medusa (Uma Thurman) which is a very cool monster, really cool, I mean this is the stuff that makes this film! She made stone statues out of people, but a kind of stone that can be broken with a simple crutch... Anyway, I was saying: Medusa! Their comment: maybe Luke didn't know. Okay, it's possible, let's see what is at the other places, shall we? Place n. 2: five men turn into a hydra with five heads, which soon become more when Percy cuts them off, oviously knowing nothing about hydras... doesn't he read comics??? Percy covers himself creating a wall of water, until Grover saves them all by using Medusa's head. By now, I was already annoyed as hell with these kids, because Grover is so so loud! and Annabeth does absolutely nothing!. Place n.3. the Lotus Hotel in Las Vegas, where they eat some strange but good looking thing and forget everything until Poseidon helps them again. Thank you Poseidon, the sight of Grover dancing was really too much to bear, as if listening to him yelling wasn't enough! He's so annoyingly excessive!
They still didn't think there was anything wrong with the map Luke gave them, apparently, because they go on all confident. Finally they meet Hades and Persephone (Rosario Dawson) with her "what will you do to me? I'm already in hell" although to be fair her hell isn't all that bad, all things considered. Okay she can't get out, but aside from that, she's doing pretty nicely, things could be a lot worse! Percy can hug his mother again, and Hades finds the Lightning into Percy's shield, the shield Luke gave him. Do you think they understand now ?? yeah, finally Annabeth says something right, although too late.
Persephone saves them by taking the lightning off Hades and only now they discover that three perals are not enough for four people! so Grover stays behind, with Persephone, because apparently they like this kind of jokes a lot! yeuch. The real Grover is a sweet, good guy.
They run to the Empire State Building, where the entrance of the Olympus is, and apparently Sally knows this very well, how can she know the right spot, the right buttons!!! Luke comes to fight him, and after that Percy goes to see Zeus, right at the last second, in the best of traditions. He hands him the lightning, meets his dad and makes a long speech :-/
At the end, Mom has kicked out Gabe, no longer useful now, and Percy goes back to the Camp. Grover is again so excessive and loud, and Chiron says the worst line "you disobeyed my orders, that's why you're mmy favourite student " how stupid is that? Is he saying that every kid should disobey orders? Especially kids this stupid? They were lucky! Not everyone is so lucky! What he did was stupid and wrong, but being lucky is better than being smart, for them.
Oh my, the book is so so much better, this is complete b****hit! Makes no sense from start to end! Great effects though, medusa was cool :-)
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