In the book, Percy is a rather fly 12-year-old while in this film he's a calmer, cooler and more confident 17-year-old. Having spoken with the aforementioned tween and a few other young people while exiting the theatre, it becomes apparent that Columbus has taken considerable dramatic, or not so dramatic, license with Riordan's source material including a smoothing out of Percy's rough edges and a significant reduction in the book's edgier and more entertaining scenes in favor of a more Hollywood-style bastardized and whitewashed approach that will likely please a wider audience yet disappoint fans of the book series. Despite dazzling special effects and a story that should delight, much of the film plays out like Zoom that actually works or, alternately, a far less entertaining version of Harry Potter sort of along the lines of when Adam Sandler gets together and produces an obviously less entertaining film (aka Grandma's Boy) to keep his buddies working.Įverything about Percy Jackson & The Olympians- The Lightning Thief feels like a blue collar version of the Potter adventures and, unfortunately, with Percy and his entourage director Chris Columbus is working with a far lower budget and less talented leads than when he directed the first two Potter films. Therein lies the problem with the entire film. He further expressed that cinematic Percy (Logan Lerman) was nothing like he was in the box, not as much fun and "not as cool." Centered around the adventures of a seemingly normal boy who discovers he's the half-human, half-divine son of the Greek god Poseidon, Percy Jackson & The Olympians- The Lightning Thief was pronounced to be "not too good" by a young tween sitting nearby as the closing credits rolled. Having not read the five-volume 'tweener series by Rick Riordan upon which this film is based, it is impossible to surmise just how faithful director Chris Columbus and screenwriter Craig Titley are to the original source material for Percy Jackson & The Olympians- The Lightning Thief.
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