When talking about contemporary
fantasy movies like Percy Jackson, one should take and appreciate them for what
the film is without looking for hidden meanings and deeper plot. Sea of
Monsters is fun, interesting, engaging and, more or less, educating, as it
revolves a lot around Greek mythology. However, with the first movie, which
came out in 2010 Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the
producers set the tide quite high… perhaps even too high for Percy Jackson: Sea
of Monsters. And it’s not that the film is bad; it’s just that it’s not as good
as its ancestor. The Lightning Thief was very thorough in establishing the
whole idea of gods and half-bloods and mythical creatures living amongst us, so
that even in its humorous moments it felt somewhat epic and future-making. And
while Sea of Monsters was really funny and the level of humor in the dialogues
was brought to a whole new level, the story moved at a way too fast of a pace
for the epic-ness to be felt. Having read the book sequence, I realize what a
challenge it’d be to squeeze in so much emotion and heroism and adventure in a
two-hour movie (106 minutes to be more accurate), but they did it once…
Watching Percy Jackson: Sea of
Monsters didn’t really change my life and outlook, but it wasn’t a waste of
time, either. It was enjoyable and funny; it had the action, it had the story,
it had the dialogues. And even though it didn’t meet my expectations, it’s a
good film in its own way.
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