Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Chapter 1 of 99
Lots of big names there: Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean, all for about five minutes. In the rest of the screen time we get three teenagers. One of them is the son of Poseidon and is able to do lots of cool things with water. That’s about it. There is of course a girl who will inevitably fall in love with Percy and vice versa. In the sequels, of course, because, boy, there are going to be lots of those. She is the daughter of Athena, ergo very smart, wise, etc. Or at least should be. Because she is as dull on the inside as on the outside. At least they could have chosen a blonde one, so that her lack of intelligence would have been understandable. The third teenager is actually a Satyr who, besides being a black guy also has goat legs. The three of them are set out to save a bunch of idiot Olympian gods like Zeus and Poseidon from going to war with each other. The story itself is an outrage to the gods, I mean just how thick are they? Lots of Harry Potter in it, after all JK Rowling’s books are a real source of inspiration, is it not? All in all, a boring copy of Harry Potter and an insult for the Ancient Greeks.
Stars on my movie meter: two out of five.
Attila Andrasy
22/02/2010
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