Jackson), who, it turns out, is actually a goat-boy satyr, Percy also teams up with Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), the fetching warrior daughter of Athena. There, already accompanied by a wisecracking best friend named Grover (Brandon T. Why Zeus suspects Percy rather than the child of any other god is never explained, but such an early, gaping plot hole is in keeping with the subsequent incoherent action.Īfter being attacked by a harpy (masquerading as a substitute teacher) and a minotaur, Percy is guided to Hogwarts, er, I mean Camp Half-Blood, where a Dumbledore-ish centaur (Pierce Brosnan, looking drowsy) explains the nuts and bolts of humans’ relationship to gods.
Rowling’s saga every step of the way to Mount Olympus, the film (based on Rick Riordan’s popular kids-lit series) concerns high-schooler Percy (Logan Lerman), who suddenly discovers not only that he’s the demigod son of Poseidon (Kevin McKidd), but that he’s been accused by Zeus (Sean Bean) of stealing his lightning bolt.
#THE LIGHTNING THIEF MOVIE MOVIE#
Knockoffs of Harry Potter don’t come more transparent and slapdash than Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a wannabe-franchise jumpstarter directed by Chris Columbus with the same flat, crane-shot-obsessed aesthetic blandness that he brought to his first two Potter movie adaptations.
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