The young American Percy Jackson in reality is the son of a Greek god and a mortal woman.
Ah, the Harry Potter rip off. I honestly don’t know if the books were specifically written to be the American Harry Potter but we know for certain that the guys at Fox were looking for a new Potter like franchise, they even hired the same director who kick started the original, Chris Columbus! I still think that his Potter movies are the worst iterations of that franchise and I can’t change my mind watching this one. Is not like this is actively bad but is just a competent effort made no spark of imagination or creativity.
The main problem anyway is not the director, is the base material. I haven’t read the original books and therefore I must admit that maybe an incredible misunderstanding happened when they wrote the screenplay but really the material is terribly derivative.
Of course the Potterverse is also full to the brim with second hand stuff but at least there was a little bit more work on it. Case in point where Harry Potter gets a magical train that start from Platform nine and three quarter to arrive to a huge castle in Scotland Percy simply drives his car to “camp Half Blood”, basically a stupider version of a Boy Scout camp. There he nominally follows the lessons of the centaur Chiron but in practice they do a live action capture the flag and he becomes all kind of awesome after five minutes. Before dinner he even start his own personal quest with a plan so poorly conceived that even in the movie they acknowledge it.
Probably this movie got at me the wrong way also because I happen to know something about the originals myths so seeing mount Olympus on top of the Empire State Building really grates me, and I could make many more examples. It is depressing that getting a deep and meaningful myth and making a shallow modernized version of it is a road to a bestseller and a blockbuster.
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