Review of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) by Brittany S — 11 Mar 2014

Not very good. The first film was so much better. The three main characters from the first film are portrayed pretty well here, but with the exception of Clarice, who's pretty awesome, the rest of the new characters are pretty stupid.

That goes double for Tyson the cyclops...interesting character but the actor is terrible, and so are the attempted comedic lines the writers gave him. Aside from that, the story is pretty boring...the only two bright spots are the scenes in the stomach of the guardian of the Sea of Monsters, and of course when the group meets Hermes, played by Nathan Fillion (obviously the best part of this film).

The story itself is horribly predictable...I'm sure it's much better in Rick Riordan's book, but every supposed plot twist is telegraphed, so there's next to no suspense. My biggest problem though is with the movie's namesake: the Sea of Monsters.

For something that sounds so awesome, it's so disappointing. The Sea of Monsters is shown for a couple of minutes, and there's only one fucking monster shown. Admittedly, that monster is pretty cool, but underused.

There's no major fight or anything...it just eats them and then they escape by blasting a hole in its stomach like 2 minutes later. No suspense at all. Also, where the fuck are the gods? They couldn't have had Sean Bean or Kevin McKidd show up for like a couple of minutes? They didn't even get them for voice acting.

Anyway, see this if you liked the first film, but don't expect it to be better than the original, because it's sure as hell not.