Teen Spirit
Film: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Cast: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon Jackson
Directed by: Thor Freudenthal
Duration: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: * *
After a
considerably lukewarm response to the Lightning
Thief, Percy Jackson is back, this time to battle the sea of monsters.
Considering that the popularity of this teenager is a fraction of Harry Potter,
the hesitation of the studios to put in big money is understandable. After all,
it is pretty much familiar territory and too many heroes of the same mould
doesn’t necessarily work well with kids.
Even Chris
Columbus who has a few credible films to his resume could not do much with the Lightening Thief. So unless you are fan
of the franchise or a teenager (usually the two are the same), for the average
audience sitting through this is an uphill task.
Percy
Jackson (Logan Lerman) son of Poseidon and half God and half human has taken
refuge at the Half blood camp, along with others of his type. There he meets
his half brother who is a cyclops, he has just one eye in the middle of his
forehead. There is a barrier around the camp which gets destroyed so the
mission is to find something called the Golden Fleece which will help restore
the barrier. The villain is Luke Castellan who wants to destroy Mount Olympus
among other things. Percy embarks on a journey along with his friends Annabeth
(Alexandra Daddario) and Grover (Brandon Jackson) to save the day.
Like yours
truly, if you are not familiar with the franchise, there is way too much
goobledygook in the film. There isn’t a great deal of excitement in the story
nor do the action scenes grab your attention. Since the film was converted and
not shot in 3D, you wish they would have stuck to the conventional 2D instead
of messing it up.
Bottomline: this one is strictly for die hard Percy Jackson
fans only.
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