Synopsis: Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school - but that's the least of his challenges. It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod - half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.
Yea, The JustVim Crew was there to witness Chris Columbus’ downfall in his latest Greek mythological Film starring no A-listers but some pretty greenhorn actors/actresses. There was the typical boy-meet-girl scene, bikini-clad babes and teenage show-off show-down (between Percy and the Son of Hermes), so yea, it was pretty predictable and mild.
The movie’s generic CGI monsters represent no technological advance. Such creatures are so prolific nowadays that even this movie’s hounds of hell elicit a ho-hum response. Maybe the advent of the 3-D era can help restore the scare factor. But then again, it was plain in its effect and with so much new CGI and animation intriguing our minds, we were not impressed.
The quest takes the three teenagers to the lair of Medusa (Uma Thurman), a place festooned with statues of those whom she has turned to stone for daring to gaze into her eyes. Clad in black leather and wearing dark glasses, Ms. Thurman’s Medusa is chilly, uncannily overdoing her sex appeal to a teenager and unfortunately by no means terrifying.
Next stop is the Parthenon in Nashville, where the security guards metamorphose into a hydra with whom the teenagers do battle in very lame and uneventful combat. There was a little hope when Percy busts up the water cooler, but that was where the fun ended, nothing special came out of it. We really expected the giant Athena to come alive and wreak some havoc or maybe pass some words of wisdom to her daughter, but nothing really happened so the Crew was kinda dampened.
In the magical land of sex, lies, dreams and gambling, Las Vegas, where a blue pearl is found lodged in a roulette wheel; they linger for nearly a week in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, which only seemed served to add urgency to the scenario. The hostesses dispense memory-erasing lotus-flower canapés and beautiful showgirls swarm over Grover. It’s the movie’s most fully realized sequence, but the idea was juvenile and played out very unprofessionally.
Well, remember the first time you saw Harry Potter on the big screen? This is more like the boring third time you saw him but with bigger effects and Greek mythology replacing the occult. Don’t worry, you still have your unappealing, dull-faced “Hermione” as Athena’s Daughter and the pesky “Ron” as a Satyr, which surprisingly is cool with the ladies. So Pretty Ladies out there, how many of ya actually like Hairy legs and smelly hooves?
Maybe if you're aged between eight and 12, or exceptionally dim-witted, you may not notice that this is a tenth-rate rip-off of Harry Potter, with Greek mythology taking the place of magic, low-class acting with really dampening speeches, though the special effects are somewhat good, it was not much of a bang given the potential of the “Greek Mythology, Titans, Olympian Gods and whatnot” plot. A lot more could have been unveiled and explored in this movie.
In short: “Digitisation reigns – spectacular visual effects – while the dialogue drizzles and sploshes.”
It is a bit hard to see quite where Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief's market lies. Too adult for juveniles, too juvenile for adults. Go catch it only if you like some action after all the festivities and if you like Percy’s Blue Blue eyes.
Ratings: 2/5
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