Review of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) by Boyd — 14 Feb 2010

My sons and I read all 5 books, they are very good! That said, this movie was not good. First off major character changes was a big red flag! Grover is not black! The problem I had with that is whenever Hollywood throws in an ethnic character such as Grover, they suddenly become "urbanized" in thier speech, and over sexed in their behavior which plays into furthering the stereotype of the horny (literally in the case of Grover) black man.

Really it's not necesaary! By the way I am a Father of three wonderful sons and I am black. This isn't a race issue as much as cultural.