twilightshadows-428-400303 Watched recently with my daughter who is a huge fan of the books. She had sworn she would never watch it because she was so aggravated at the first one. For some reason she decided she wanted to see how bad it was. She ranted through the entire movie. It's been a while, but I read the first series. She is rereading them so it was fresh in her mind. We both decided they rewrote almost the entire movie. Much has been covered in other reviews, so I'm going to stick mostly with what I haven't seen mentioned, 2 points of which we thought were the most aggreageous. First, how do you get the mythology wrong, in both movies? Admittedly the first movie was the more glaring. Having Persephone in the Underworld at that time of year destroys the entire myth, but this one wasn't much better. Kronos was not just evil. He swallowed his children to prevent a prophecy that one of them would overthrow him. However, he did not swallow Zeus as his wife tricked him into swallowing a stone instead. Zeus grew up in hiding and then freed his siblings from inside Kronos and then they defeated Kronos. They completely destroyed the character of Luke along with the story of the cursed blade. Luke's story is tragic and complicated, but there are 4 events that lead to his being vulnerable to Kronos, each one making him angrier and more bitter. One of them, however, is the death of Thalia, which could easily have been covered. While he does poison Thalia, he does not intend for her to die. He planned to return with the fleece and cure her once he resurrected Kronos. He believed she would join him. Note too that Kronos appears in his dreams and plays on his anger. There is some indication Kronos may even be influencing him. He also doesn't die here. Near the end he resurrects Kronos by serving as his vessel. But Luke then fights back. Eventually he sacrifices himself to prevent Kronos full return and is recognized as a hero. His last words are a plea to Percy to take care of the others like him to make sure this never happens again. The cursed blade is celestial bronze and steal molded together, so it can kill both nonhumans and humans. It's an abomination and should not exist, but is given to Luke by Kronos. He calls it Backbiter. It is not Percy's sword, and neither Percy nor Thalia is the child in the prophecy. The child is Luke, and he saves Olympus with his sacrifice. Why they changed the story I cannot fathom. It's a much more powerful story as written. I understand that changes have to be made in transferring to film, but the Harry Potter series did it and managed to not only keep the main plot and spirit of the books, but by starting with actors of the right age, also covered the entire series. Having seen that it can be done just makes the Percy movies all the more disappointing. Our only saving grace is it has been confirmed there will be no more. Maybe a few years from now Fox, who owns the film, tv, and game rights, will get a clue and redo the series properly. My daughter and I think it would make a great animated series for television. There are no limits or time pressures in animated, so they could pretty much stick to the story, treating each book as a season. Then we could all get together and burn the discs for the movies.

ciocolata_dementa Just like others said: the movie has nothing to do with the books! Event though usually the books are better than the movies, in this case the movies are a great embarassment for the books. The movie team could do better with so many little details that count very much!

kmtwalsh I had watched the first movie without knowing anything of the characters and stories in the book and found myself really enjoying the first film so I was really excited to watch the next in the series.The story continues with Percy Jackson and friends back in camp. Percy is worried about his legacy compared to Clarisse, his competitive camp mate who is making a name for herself in the demigod world. When their camp is attacked and the barrier is weakened, Percy and his friends go on a mission to retrieve the Golden Fleece they think will restore the barrier. Percy also has to deal with a half-brother he never knew existed.What a disappointment it turned out to be. The film was boring, it dragged too much and it suffered from the lack of star power that enhanced the first film. There is Stanley Tucci as Mr D, God of Wine etc who I thought made the film a lot less dull especially when his wine was turned into water by Zeus for a misdeed he committed. Anthony Head pops up in the Pierce Brosnan role and does as good a job as he can with the script. Ron Perlman is one of the voices, although you don't see him on film. The one actor I struggled with was Nathan Fillion as Hermes. Love him in Castle but I just didn't think he was any good in this.It is a shame that it lost it's way through mostly the script and as there has been no mention of a third film, this movie has stopped anymore being made so far.

georgina-43012 I found this movie the worst movie ever over half of the movie was not even true. I have read all the Percy Jackson books and onto hero's of Olympus.If you enjoyed the book please don't even look at the cover of the DVD. The trailer fools people into watching it. Watching the movie was my biggest mistake I have ever made. I could go past a hundred negatives. Negatives 1. Kronus does not come back 2. Dionysus's does not like his job. Zeus punished him, making him camp director 3. They don't get eaten by Charybdis. 4. Dionysus does not cheer he sulks. 5. Kronsus does not get his Scythe. 6. Kronusus's coffin does not even touch the golden fleece. 7. Where was the Scylla he was nowhere in sight. 8. What happened to the start. In the book he starts at a school not the camp and he meets Tyson there.Positives 1. The information about the CSS Birmingham.