Do you love the Percy Jackson & The Olympians, The Lighting Thief and thought the movie from Warner Brothers was going to be amazing? Well, I suggest you read this paper before you see it if you do not want to be disappointed as I was.
First of all, the Gods were not taller than the Empire State building when there are humans around; originally they were just a little taller than a regular height of a man when Percy meets Poseidon on Olympus he likes so tall and you’re like what the heck? It makes Percy’s actor, Logan Lerman a shrimp.
Another reason it should be remade is that they didn’t even follow the plot line of the book! It’s not that hard to pick up the book and read it in the first place! Geez!!! They took the plot and totally ripped it to pieces! My little sister, Jessica said that the only thing they got right was their names and I don’t even think they got some names said right. The plot line wasn’t followed at all. Everyone in the movie knew Percy was the son of Poseidon except Percy. In the book, no one knows who he is except Poseidon and his mom, Sally Jackson. Annabeth, Grover, and Chiron knew he was a demigod but didn’t know he was a son of Poseidon until the Capture the Flag where Clarisse scares Percy into using his powers that he didn’t even know about. That’s when Poseidon claims Percy as his son. But in the movie, Annabeth comes in and is like, “I’m the daughter of Athena, and I’m better than you.” And all that crap. And Poseidon, who is not allowed to have any contact with Percy, except to claim him; says “go to the water” and I was like, “HELLO! THAT DOESN’T SCREAM SON OF POSEIDON, PERCY!” and he STILL doesn’t know it and anyway, it sounded so stupid.
They made the plot even more different, they took away Thalia’s pine tree. Thalia was the daughter of Zeus and was turned into a tree so she wouldn’t die and she is a mega big part of the second book, The Sea of Monsters so they just took away the second book. Percy was claimed to be the thief of Zeus’s master lightning bolt and that was in the book but Hades’s helpers, the Fates just look for the bolt and not what Hades wanted, which was his helm of darkness; that Ares, the god of war was suppose to take!
Also, Luke who turns on the demigods to bring back the Titan Lord, Kronos gets drowned by Percy at the movie, they murdered the whole series.
My other concern, they made Annabeth and Percy totally like each other and they are only supposed to be sort of friends. Her mom, Athena and his dad, Poseidon don’t like each other and so they are not suppose to like each other and Annabeth is just annoying the movie! She had her moments when she would be annoying but than she would redeem herself and by the end of the book, you’d like her character again. And also, with Percy’s best friend, Grover who is a satyr is black and he is supposed to white. They took his character and changed him into a ladies man, which Grover isn’t. He is shy, sweet character who cares about the safety of his friends. He doesn’t get into girls until the fifth book.
All and all, this movie didn’t follow the book at all. It is a disgrace to the amazing Percy Jackson series that Rick Riodran created. It should be remade and follow the book.
