Review of LT the movie

AWESOME!!!!!!
THE MOVIE IS DEFINITELY NOT THE BOOK!
But I definitely liked it. It was very funny,action packed, and satisfying. You must go see it, but do not expect it to be mega faithful to the book. Be optimistic and keep an open mind, and you will have a great time.

SPOILER ALERT

The movie has a great and stormy beginning, that sets the mood of conflict. Next we see the meeting of Zeus and Posidon at the top observation deck on the Empire State Building, and the conflict is in place. From the start you know this is not going to be like the book. However, that is not a bad thing. Honest devoted fans it is not bad.

The entire tone of the movie is more mature and that will widen the appeal of it for older audiences. It is action packed and immensely entertaining. You will be constantly in the back of your mind saying, that is different; but the movie does not give you time to sulk about it.

The look and feel of Camp Half Blood is more millitaristic. You find no nectar or ambrosia here, and campers get injured from training. The cabins have an open and airy feel to them. Hades pays a visit to the camp, and the helm is never mentioned or seen. Percy knows from the moment after his encounter with Mrs. Dodds who he is and what he has to do and find. The trio sneak out of camp to find the bolt and get Percy's mom back. Again no Oracle or prophecy here.

You clearly see and understand why the things are missing. They have 2 hours to tell the story and they have to keep it moving - quickly. A map to find the three pearls to get out of the underworld is what guides them to each new location across America. You'll understand why Nashville was better that St. Louis for finding a pearl. Percy instinctively knows how to use his powers. Annabeth is more warrior than thinker and Grover has more confidence and personality with the ladies, and yet still has his timid moments.

My only down point was in the underworld and who was left, and how can anyone eat there and leave. Otherwise, they have done an excellent job bringing the overall story to the screen and have kept the integrity of the characters. There is no mention of Kronos or Tartarus. However, Luke is clearly a villian and somehow you know he couldn't be working alone. The ending has a surprise in it so don't walk out of the movie too quickly.

Do go see the movie, you will enjoy it and be encouraged that if this does well, we will see Sea of Monsters on the screen. It gets 4 from me. It is a hit.

LOVED IT!!!!! it was really awesome! they changed alot of stuff though, but like Pendragon said, keep ur mind open and u will have a great time. this movie was AMAZING and alot of things did change, but it is still my #1 movie Oh and Grover was HALARIOUSE!

SWEET!!!!!!!!!! CANT WAIT FOR 4:15 TODAY!!!

The movie only gets better with each viewing.

SPOILER ALERT: i agree with PosidenDaughter about the part when they have to fit it in in a 2 hour time period. its was an awesome movie overall. its worth going to see!!

i think that anyone who will or already did watch this movie will or did enjoy it. I am going to watch it over and over and over again until the Sea of Monsters comes out

im sorry to be mister rain on the parade, but i thought it was terribly cliche and had really akward percabeth and was missing central characters that are important parts of the other books. Here's mister rainclouds review:

that movie was ugly and akward and made me wanna cry and laugh at them and scream epic fail all at the same time. Im sorry. The casino scene everyone looked high. And they played Poker Face?!?!?!? Wat was that? Don't eat the flower... so cliche. Annabeth's conflicting emotions about percy was cliche more than anything and it was so pathetic and akward. They dint mention kronos. They didnt mention ares. They didnt mention clarrisse. as far as i am concerned they killed luke with a... trident? What happened to riptide? The special effects were cheesy, especially in the underworld. The pearles weren't a central part. Persephone was not there in the book, yet she is in the underworld IN THE WRONG SEASON. the underworld didnt have cerberus. the underworld damned ALL people, and did not include elysium/isles of the blest. Charon was a lame character. They didnt have the waterpark. They didnt have St. Louis. Luke gave him flying shoes, yet they were not cursed, even though Luke wanted to kill Percy, so in other words Luke gave his worst enemy a kind present. Lotus casino was jacked up times a million, i have to say that again. "The flower dilutes your senses." Percy's cabin was messed up. Percy was supposed to be on annabeths team in capture the flag. Clarrise was supposed to beat him up and cause him to find he is from poseidon. Percy knew he was poseidon's son way to early. When Sally wuas captured, it was so fake acting and lame special effects. Percy beat the minotaur by luck. The voice of poseidon inside his head was lame and cliche and akward to watch. The opening graphic of Poseidon climbing out of water had horrible special effects, and it looked stupid and you couldnt figure out what was going on for like five minutes. The whole height difference was so obviously animated and messed up with green screens and such. Lord of The Rings did a way better job on that. Grover is NOT good with the ladies. He's only good with juniper, who doesnt show up until the fourth book anyway. Gabe wasn't a fat enough actor. Gabe wasn't supposed to be beat up by GROVER.

There's more too, i just am getting way to depressed.

And guys i knew it would be different form the book. I knew it was a directors take on it. But the central elements of the movie itself, the basics of good directing and screenwriting, were not there. I didn't feel like I could relate to these characters. They all seemed inhuman. The speical effetcs were bad enough to where all i could think about was how bad they were, not what they represented. The actors would do a bad job in reacting to a characters lines, so it looked like a high school play. And they swore a lot. What was that about?

I totally will see the next movie though. Just to laugh at them for doing such a terrible job and see what they are going to do considering they DONT HAVE THE CHARACTERS THEY NEED TO FOLLOW IT! What are you supposed to write a sequel about if they never mentioned Kronos? They mentioned Hercules more then him! I honestly don't know wats going on in their heads, but there was something extremely OFF about this movie.

There were quite a few squirm in your seat moments where Chris Columbus throws in ANOTHER cliche and you wish he had done something more subtle. A lot of times self-inflated ideas of how th emovie turns out causes that and they think "Oh, even if it is cliche, it's Percy Jackson, nobody will CARE." They need to know that just because it has good potential doesn't make it a hit.

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE MOVIE:wow i agree with you on a few parts, demi...gawd!, but for me, I think they couldn't help it to twitch it up, i guess. i mean ya they had a lot of changes, but for me, i think they didn't mess it up ALL the way. It was a really awesome movie, ESPECIALLY the fighting, and i guess us fans will have to enjoy the movies just the way they come out. EVen though they changed ALOT of things, i still think it is a really awesome movie

* oh and btw, the lotus casino was a little jacked up with the flower and everything, but i though that was creative of them. But the car part was weird because they are only supposed to be tweleve and not supposed to drive yet. oh well... hollywood. i still liked it

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE MOVIE: oh and another thing, i think the cabin looked pretty cool and i think the next movie will turn out good- i mean if they do the next movie

thanks percyjackson101, i agree. What really got me was the whole voice in his head thing... just kind of weord to watch. All the other parts of the scene were preety creative though.

SPOILER ALERT: oh yeah the voice..... Annabeth said that her mother guided her during her way into Camp Half Blood when she was seven, but other than that, it was weird to have his father talk to him- but then again, a bit creative how his father got them out of the casino- the casino was like a really kool part for me. it was better than what i imagined


OH!!! The whole thing with the, "Godly parents can't have physical contact with their children" kind of confused me, but I still <3 the movie

Spoiler Alert

Demi...gawd, your review makes you seem the movie's demonization of Hades. (both his apperance in camp and in the underworld) Pendragon and I think you have a point, in some of your comments. But you seem to have been hell-bent on trashing this movie before you even saw it. We went in optimistic and remain so.

I wrote this under another topic, but felt it needs repeating.

I am not thrilled with the changes they made. However, they did an excellent job presenting the story in their form of it. Again, they only had 2 hours so there had to be expediency in bringing the story along. Like with Mrs. Dodds; she comes back in book 5. So in having her not die saved the whole they never really die and come back scenario. By their having the truck from Medusa's, and the map to get the pearls enabled them to get across the country and to reach LA, ahem, Hollywood.
I was annoyed with Grover being kept in Hades, and his talking about having had dinner with Persephone. What about the whole eat in Hades stay in Hades. It was how Hades trapped Persephone.
The movie does leave the fans with a hundred questions on how to get the rest of the stroy told. Now we shall have wonderful debates and hypothesizing until the next movie comes out.

SPOILER ALERT: i agree with you- especially the fact that LT will keep us busy until the Sea of Monsters comes out.

Also, I think the map thing with the pearls was kind of creative so that they don't have to do the whole "Blow up a nation monument and battle a Chimera" part and the part when he gets the pearls from the lake spirit. Pretty smart
I agree with the "dinner of Persephone". That was pretty like a "duh" moment for the director from the fans. but no matter how much i critisize the movie i will always end up loving it

I posted these comments on Favorite Scenes topic, but they need repeating here.

1) The Island of the Lotus Eaters is a Greek Myth that they would lure mortals there and have them eat lotus petals and be trapped. So the casino scene was accurate giving people flowers to eat. And Percy not eating would help his head to clear. 2) The parent voice/thoughts are individual preference - I liked it. 3) Good point on Persephone being in Hades at the summer soltice the PHD in Greek Myth blew it. But she was great being there. 4) Yes, we cringed too when Annabeth yelled, yea Percy! 5) Luke wanted him to make it Hades so no curse needed - I guess; but flying in Zeus' domain? 6) Brandon had to play Grover up on his toes, maybe the crutches were to help him out or maybe to give Grover a weapon - he certainly used them well. 7) No prophecy - yes, but they can easily bring it into the second movie, and credit Luke's actions to Kronos's influence/control. Okay, they should have used contacts - I found Annabeth's bright blue eyes very annoying. Percy's eyes looked more gray than blue or green 9) Not mentioning the Luke & Annabeth relationship, obviously they had to leave all that background info out. Plus it would have brought in Thalia, and then explaining all that. They are also showing her attraction to Percy, too. They are older after all. 11) Leaving Grover in Hades, this one got me too. I also do not like the fact that Grover said they dined. Hades trapped Persephone by getting her to eat pomograntes. You eat you stay.

I am not saying by any means that this movie was perfect. Craig Titley mentioning his PHD in Greek Mythology just puts egg on his face for each myth error he makes. What I am saying is that we have a Percy movie and hopefully they will make more and fill in some of the things left out and hoefully stay a little closer to Sea of Monsters story. As in Thalia, a couple minute explanation will catch us up with her.

I'm with demi...gawd on this one. I think my family who hadn't read the books enjoyed it. But I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie of a popular book change the story quite so much. They completely skipped one of the key theme elements of the whole series: Annabeth's feelings for Luke! She didn't call Percy "Seaweed Brain" even once! There were great lines from the book that were replaced with lame ones in the movie. I can understand changing some scenes to make things less confusing; I can even accept the completely new added scene in Tennessee. But telling Percy straight out who his father is? Annabeth immediately figuring out how the bolt got in the shield? Leaving Grover in Hades instead of Percy's mom? Wow. On an upbeat note, my kids liked it so much they are currently running around with swords playing Percy and Annabeth, and discussing demigod powers. But still! This is one case where I wish I had seen the movie and THEN read the books. I'm not holding my breath for any more being made into movies. That said, I think the casting was great, most of the effects were great, there were funny parts (but the book Percy is much more humorous.) Grover was definitely not a victim in the movie. That was probably an improvement.

im sry, but i think the movie didn't harm rick's story. the movie was a COMPLETE WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY but with the same charecters and most of the same things. i personally loved the movie for that!

I guess if I hadn't JUST read the books, maybe I could have looked at it as a "completely new story" But there were so many parts from the book I was hoping to see in the movie -- and didn't. This was definitely not a movie for the fans. Still good though. I think.

hahaha yea i thoughth they should've had more parts from the book in the movie- more awesomer that way

rite more awesomer-- the begining when posiedon talks to zues, he's like "he doesn't know who he is or who i am because of you"..zues didnt interfer in the book

but in a way- not directly- he does, i mean if you think about it. He causes the weather to change, and the whole reason for Percy to go to Hades for the Lightning Bolt

It got an estimated 31 million at the weekend box office. (2nd place )

WOAH!!!!! DANG! that is alot for something new. i guess the Sea of Monsters will be huge then, and so will the rest of the series. we mite even get more users on MN

That makes me feel better. We went and saw it for the 4th time at 9:30 Saturday night and there wasn't even 20 people in the theater. It frightened me that the movie wasn't going to get good opening weekend numbers. What was it second too?