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Movie Review: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

On By robowindycityIn Books, Movies, Review3 Comments

Image I’ve been reading a series called Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan. I’m really liking the books. The book I’m current reading is called The Battle of the Labyrinth.

I just saw the movie called Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief last night but it was horrible because they skipped so many good parts. There were too many bad parts on my list that I couldn’t fit all of them in this post so here are the basics:

  1. We didn’t see Ares, God of War.
  2. They don’t fight the hydra until book two but in the movie Grover beat the hydra with the Medusa head in Nashville. It created one heck of a statue!
  3. Luke isn’t revealed as a bad person until book two but in the movie he revealed himself as a servant of Kronos the Titan Lord.
  4. In the book, Percy, Annabeth and Grover don’t look for the pearls to help them get out of the underworld. Instead, Poseidon gives Percy the pearls.
  5. They don’t see Hades, the God of the Dead, until they get to the underworld. That was a big mistake by the movie makers. In the movie he just popped out of the fire in Camp Half-Blood.
  6. They don’t go to the Lotus Casino on purpose in the book.
  7. We don’t get to see Cerberus, the three-headed dog, in the movie.
  8. The Medusa head was supposed to be in a meat loaf surprise to turn Gabe Ugliano into a statue. Instead, they put it in a refrigerator with a lock and a note that said, “Do not open this refrigerator under any circumstances.

There were only two things that I like about the movie:

  1. I liked the scene where Percy, Annabeth and Grover were traveling in the underworld to see Hades. I liked it because there was a bunch of garbage floating in the air beside them as they were riding in the boat to Hades’ castle.
  2. I liked Grover’s actor. I like him because the actor really acted like I expected him in the book to.

As you can tell, the movie makers got the whole plot of the story all wrong. I’ll bet that the author of these books gets so mad when he watches the movie because they skipped a bunch of parts. So for future reference do not watch this movie. I give this movie 0 out of 5 stars.

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