When i first saw the trailer for this movie i automatically knew it would not be a masterpiece but more of a funner, more action packed harry potter, and yet i had a feeling that a nice afternoon spent on going to see this movie would be a relaxing experience.Well I could not have been more wrong.
Lets start with the begging shall we ? The script, story and ideas, well the script has a very poor continuity, with everything happening very fast, with absolutely no profoundness neither in the characters feelings nor the actions themselves. It simply is a giant mixture of "things" happening, a giant mix-up of events with the continuity that only a 2 year old could possibly create. The story itself is a giant cliché of course.
OK so we've cleared out the fact that the script is bad do to 0 continuity, lack of dialog, lack of profoundness or meaning, now come the characters, i have rarely seen such bad acting in my life. First of all let me just say that at 1 point Percy's mother is believed to have been KILLED BY A MINOTAUR an yet he sheds no tear and seems to not feel any emotions about that, he simply carries on and shows not 1 drop of emotion, that and the fact that his best friend, is a satyr(half man half goat), O and of course do to political correctness, the satyr is an African-American (an African-American,hip,cool, "gangsta"-talking satyr?!... please...). His love interest is nothing out of the ordinary with the same acting skills as her "counterpart".
Now back to the story, the plot is simply childish, and on almost every level it seems to much, even for a fantasy film. Let me just ask how in the world does someone steal Zeus' Lightning Bolt, he most probably holds it in his sleep. Now, after escaping a minotaur and having his mother seemingly killed (thing for which he sheds not 1 bit of emotion... lame) he reaches a camp were demi-gods train, all the demi-gods of world, or something like that.There the stupidity of the story/script will astonish you again. First of all Percy is a city kid with no fighting skills whatsoever. There he at 1 point fights the very girl which consists of his love interest, she has been training for years at the camp and still he manages to combat her at first, HEALS with his "water powers" and then he manages to defeat her and other demi-gods ?! come on ....they were ALL demi-gods, the others had fighting skills, he had zilch, yet he beet them. Now thats what i call childishness, and stupidity on the director, writer and practically everyone's part.
OK the script is awful, the story is childish, devoid of emotion and lacks any kind of intelligence, characters that do not evolve in the movie in any way, OK maybe the cool effects help the movie?.No, even the special effects and costumes are simply ... bad. The costumes and effects look like they were taken out of the 90' Xena and Hercules shows. Which frankly for a 2010 movie that anyway is bad in every other way, this simply makes the movie unbearable.
All in all, i simply cannot understand how anyone could like this movie, it simply has nothing to offer, no story, bad script, awful characters, and same with he special effects, and depth of the plot and emotions. I seriously suggest that you DO NOT watch this movie, it will simply be a waste of your time. Other than laughing at the movie because of how bad it is (thing which i have done) you simply have nothing to gain from watching this peace of garbage.
Lets start with the begging shall we ? The script, story and ideas, well the script has a very poor continuity, with everything happening very fast, with absolutely no profoundness neither in the characters feelings nor the actions themselves. It simply is a giant mixture of "things" happening, a giant mix-up of events with the continuity that only a 2 year old could possibly create. The story itself is a giant cliché of course.
OK so we've cleared out the fact that the script is bad do to 0 continuity, lack of dialog, lack of profoundness or meaning, now come the characters, i have rarely seen such bad acting in my life. First of all let me just say that at 1 point Percy's mother is believed to have been KILLED BY A MINOTAUR an yet he sheds no tear and seems to not feel any emotions about that, he simply carries on and shows not 1 drop of emotion, that and the fact that his best friend, is a satyr(half man half goat), O and of course do to political correctness, the satyr is an African-American (an African-American,hip,cool, "gangsta"-talking satyr?!... please...). His love interest is nothing out of the ordinary with the same acting skills as her "counterpart".
Now back to the story, the plot is simply childish, and on almost every level it seems to much, even for a fantasy film. Let me just ask how in the world does someone steal Zeus' Lightning Bolt, he most probably holds it in his sleep. Now, after escaping a minotaur and having his mother seemingly killed (thing for which he sheds not 1 bit of emotion... lame) he reaches a camp were demi-gods train, all the demi-gods of world, or something like that.There the stupidity of the story/script will astonish you again. First of all Percy is a city kid with no fighting skills whatsoever. There he at 1 point fights the very girl which consists of his love interest, she has been training for years at the camp and still he manages to combat her at first, HEALS with his "water powers" and then he manages to defeat her and other demi-gods ?! come on ....they were ALL demi-gods, the others had fighting skills, he had zilch, yet he beet them. Now thats what i call childishness, and stupidity on the director, writer and practically everyone's part.
OK the script is awful, the story is childish, devoid of emotion and lacks any kind of intelligence, characters that do not evolve in the movie in any way, OK maybe the cool effects help the movie?.No, even the special effects and costumes are simply ... bad. The costumes and effects look like they were taken out of the 90' Xena and Hercules shows. Which frankly for a 2010 movie that anyway is bad in every other way, this simply makes the movie unbearable.
All in all, i simply cannot understand how anyone could like this movie, it simply has nothing to offer, no story, bad script, awful characters, and same with he special effects, and depth of the plot and emotions. I seriously suggest that you DO NOT watch this movie, it will simply be a waste of your time. Other than laughing at the movie because of how bad it is (thing which i have done) you simply have nothing to gain from watching this peace of garbage.