PERCY JACKSON & THE LIGHTNING THIEF Film Review - 14/2/10

Saw the Trailer for this whilst watching another film and it looked mildly amusing so I gave it a go. Going by a different title in the States (As per the poster) over here in the UK it's just "Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief" - Up pops Pierce Brosnan in the first 20 minutes plus a rather brief cameo from Sean Bean. Throw out the Harry Potter tone and replace it with ancient mythology and you have a far more entertaining film than anything JK Rowling has churned out. In fact it reminded me a lot of 'Jason & The Argonauts' or 'Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger' but obviously the creatures are CGI instead of Stop-Go Animation. Slacker Percy Jackson turns out to be anything but, when his whole world is turned upside down when he gets attacked by a Fury. Well what do you know? It turns out Percy (Perseus) is a demi-god son of Poseidon and Zeus thinks his lightning bolt has been pinched by the aforesaid Percy; if he doesn't get it back sharpish, all the Gods go to war. Time for a road trip as Percy and a couple of friends try to find a way down into Hades domain - All manner of monsters cross their path to try and stop them. (There's another 4 books yet so we may see more?)

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