![]() Percy is… well, a lot angrier than he is in the book, and he’s given a lot of shining moments in the movie that didn’t belong to him in the book-while having a lot of his cooler accomplishments in the book taken away from him.īasically, I don’t know what Columbus was trying to do with this film. ![]() Grover the satyr is the cool, funny guy, instead of what he is in the book-a nervous wreck who has trouble getting things right when put under pressure. Annabeth has over-inflated mommy-issues that don’t appear in the book at all, and is too confident overall for kids to have much of a connection with her. All their endearing foibles in the books have been overlooked entirely and glamorized in the true Hollywood style. Let’s ignore the fact that Percy and Annabeth are supposed to be about twelve in the first novel (and that girl in the movie is far from twelve years old), but all three characters were made to be… I guess you could simply say “cooler” than they are in the books. The problem I had was that even the characters were fiddled with a little too much for my opinion. ![]() The fact is, Percy and his friends have run into more monsters in the first half of the book that I’ve read than in the whole movie, so understandably budget and time had to be considered in which parts to keep in and which to leave out. Now, I don’t really blame him with messing with the plot a little bit. Personally, I would have thought that someone who’d ever been involved with the Potter franchise would realize how much fans appreciate when a film is as faithful to a book as it can manage-but Chris Columbus did not follow through here. After all, the advertising campaign told you as many times as they could that this movie was from the same man who’d given us Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I have to confess, I was a little disappointed. The film swerves off-path of the book early on-in vital, plot-moving ways. Oh the beginning is the same, and (I’m presuming) the ending is probably not all that far off, and there’s an echo or two of major scenes… but that’s about it. As it turned out, though, that was kind of okay, because I’d read enough to know that the movie was not remotely like the book. I broke one of my cardinal rules with the new Percy Jackson movie-namely: I didn’t finish the book before watching the film.
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