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But, at the same time, I have to give Guggenheim credit for not littering the film with “topical” gag lines meant to illicit chuckles from older viewers. There might be a couple, but they are tied to the movie’s universe, such as the place where Percy and the gang find Hermes, and integrated well enough into the flow of the movie. The shame in it, though, is that he never found a way to develop the absentee-parent theme into a satisfying element for the grown-ups. It is touched upon, but never really gets resolved. I suppose it may get more focus in a subsequent Percy Jackson film. So while kids may enjoy Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, it is not an entertaining family movie with the sort of repeat appeal the Harry Potter series — yes, even Chamber of Secrets — provide. Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online Free Streaming Although well-crafted, its world is not as well-realized and its characters not as appealing to adults. These key elements are essential to great family movies, but maybe they’ll get it worked out in time for Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse.”You’re more than a one-quest wonder,” someone tells Percy Jackson at the outset of his next adventure. Not by the looks of his sequel, he isn’t. The teenaged demigod returns in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, after dispatching with a lightning thief and exhausting much of the franchise’s charm three years ago. That first movie was obviously a calculated grab for Harry Potter-type movie success but didn’t feel like a rip-off. This one skews younger, to an easier-to-please demographic, closely resembling other fantasies since. The Potter similarities remain intact, with the quasi-Muggle — sorry, mortal — Percy (Logan Lerman) joined by an intrepid demigoddess (Alexandra Daddario) and a comic relief sidekick satyr (Brandon T. Jackson). Hermione and Ron shouldn’t worry about their legacy being one-upped. They’re part of the half-blood culture, echoing one of J.K. Rowling’s book titles and that saga’s clan jealousies.There’s also a Hunger Games vibe, with Stanley Tucci overseeing another bone crushing athletic competition among children as the story begins. A gigantic brimstone demon at a key juncture could be a less anatomically correct version of the one in This is the End. For a series inspired by Greek mythology, from which all stories spring, Percy’s new movie seems awfully derivative.
The quest this time is to locate the legendary Golden Fleece, stashed in the Bermuda Triangle and guarded by a nearsighted Cyclops. The fleece’s powers can revive a tree fertilized by the corpse of a half-blood who sacrificed herself for others. Then the protective shield around Half-Blood Camp can be restored, after an armored robo-bull smashed it. That rampaging bovine is one of several artfully designed creatures popping into Thor Freudenthal’s movie, and deserting it soon after. A sea horse — literally a horse with fish tendencies — is lovely, while a scorpion-werewolf hybrid and fanged Charybdis whirlpool provide scary cameos. On the other hand, too much time is spent Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online Full Movie with three cackling, eyeless witches driving a “chariot of damnation” designed like a New York City cab, in scenes playing like outtakes from that lame Lemony Snicket movie. Other effects are just too silly to be taken seriously, like a Thermos bottle providing jet propulsion, a magical packing tape dispenser and Confederate zombies sailing a ghost ironclad ship. Believe it or not, those aren’t the qualities of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters that really irritated me. One is the ease with which dead characters conveniently come back to life. If that happens once in a fantasy it’s a cheap way out. Here, it happens three times. The other is Percy’s newfound half-brother Tyson (Douglas Smith), the offspring of Poseidon — who can’t keep his trident in his pants — and a sea nymph. Those genetics somehow make Tyson into a Cyclops, although without one trait that would assist Smith’s emoting. Can a Cyclops get an eyebrow around here?
Beloved actor Nathan Fillion climbs aboard the Percy Jackson film series in Sea of Monsters, and director Thor Freudenthal says working with the star was a treat. Like many, Freudenthal was a big fan of Fillion’s body of work – most notably Firefly and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. “I was a huge fan of Nathan Fillion, and now that I’ve worked with him I’m an even bigger fan of Nathan Fillion,” Freudenthal told us. “I watched an old episode of Firefly after I watched all of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog in one sitting and his work is just amazing.”
The director said that Fillion, who plays Hermes, brought a lot of what fans already love about the actor to Sea of Monsters. “He’s got razor sharp comedic timing. He does a lot of his own tweaking of dialogue and writing. Literally you can tell him ‘Okay you have to cross from here to there, but we don’t have enough words to fill that.’ So he’s like, ‘Okay I’ve got something’ and then it’s the funniest line in the scene.” Sea of Monsters wanted to balance action with light-heartedness, and Fillion was the ideal person for the latter. “I think he fit the tone very much of the whole movie. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but also this character of Hermes has deep regrets when it comes to his son Luke who is clearly the bad seed. Hermes would rather forget about the wrong choices he made with that kid. But it sort of weighs him down.” Fillion has one moment that fans of Firefly will particularly love: Hermes makes a direct reference to his beloved science fiction show. After we noticed it during our screening, we asked Freudenthal how that line came to be. “I worked with a great writer on this film, and I told him that we would cast Nathan. And he instantly went back to the computer and revised lines. He actually wrote a very direct Firefly reference into it that had Hermes say, ‘Hey, the best show ever is Firefly.’ And that really takes you out of the movie. So while it was a great sort of general direction to go in, Nathan came up with ‘Greatest television show ever so of course, canceled.’”
Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online Free Putlocker Returning from sleep-away camp, my teenage daughter, who’d hitherto declared reading a foreign pursuit, announced that she was now a “bookie.” Ruthlessly suppressing my inner jig, I nodded casually and asked how this literary epiphany had come about. A cabin full of reader-girls, it seemed, had turned her on to Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. And so it came to pass that, over the next few weeks, my child holed up at the library and indulged a burgeoning obsession with Greek mythology. So it was in a spirit of knee-bending gratitude that I took the teen to a screening of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the second (and, to judge by its open ending, far from the last) episode in a young demigod’s quest to rise to all manner of occasions. I haven’t read Riordan’s well-regarded novels, and anyway these days most movie fantasies for kids — stacked with souped-up special effects in place of character and story — aren’t really my bag. Nor had I seen Chris Columbus’ Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, which blew away the box office but won middling reviews.
Well, maybe not quite the underworld, since a trip down there presumably wouldn’t feature droll quips from Stanley Tucci and Nathan Fillion, who play small but enjoyable supporting roles in this desperately-trying-to-be-epic adventure. But even likable actors can’t obscure the fact that, holy gods on Mount Olympus, this thing is a slog, a movie that dutifully hits its plot points involving prophecies and fleeces without evoking a whiff of spirit or imagination.
It’s a shame that the millions of readers who fell in love with Riordan’s classic-meets-contemporary children’s stories have been handed such limp adaptations of the material. The first, 2010’s “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief” — directed by Chris Columbus, who leeched some but not all, of the life out of the first two Harry Potter movies — was respectable but dull, while “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” as directed by Thor Freudenthal (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”), is both dull and awkwardly executed. It’s less a theatrical release than a Disney Channel special that got dressed up in CGI clothes and was shoved into a multiplex. Like its predecessor, this “Percy” sends its teen hero, played by the likable Logan Lerman, on a quest, this time one that requires him to obtain the coveted Golden Fleece in order to restore life to a dying tree that protects Camp Half-Blood from evil forces. (Camp Half-Blood, for those who missed the first movie or the books, is the training facility/safe haven for offspring of one Greek god parent and one mere mortal. Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online That includes Percy, son of a human mom, and Poseidon.)
Operation Fleece Pick-up inevitably puts Percy and his band of Zeussian friends in contact with (duh) some massive beasts beneath the sea. It also briefly zips them through the District — or rather Vancouver with a digitally inserted U.S. Capitol jammed in the middle of it — in what qualifies as one of the most laughably inaccurate cinematic portrayals of our nation’s capital in the history of moviedom. The special effects look clunky and unrealistic, whether they involve depicting the mammoth maw that is Charybdis or the single eye on the forehead of Tyson (Douglas Smith), a cyclops and half-brother to Percy who makes his first appearance here. Perhaps recognizing that the eye looks a little off (or lacking the budget to make it look on all the time), the filmmakers frequently mask it with a pair of sunglasses. The result: the moppy-headed fellow son of Poseidon spends most of the movie looking like Brendan Fraser in “Encino Man.” But even Tyson is more pleasant-looking than the cab-driving Gray Sisters (Mary Birdsong, Yvette Nicole Brown and Missi Pyle), who also share a single eye but spew groan-inducing lines (“Oh no, we didn’t!”) that confirm that even the attempts at comedy in “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters” can’t hit the right notes. Well, that’s not entirely true. Fillion gets the one genuinely funny piece of dialogue in the movie, but it’s one that fans Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online Megavideo of his old TV show, “Firefly,” are most likely to get. Presumably, they won’t be coming to this movie. And, in case this wasn’t clear, fans of the Percy Jackson books shouldn’t bother either.
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Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online I noted many children in the audience enjoying it, even gasping in moments meant to create tension. But while the plot failed to surprise, there were a handful of elements that left me smiling. First and foremost is the characterization of Tyson: As played by Douglas Smith, he isn’t a grim, broody monster, but something of a hayseed, minus a broad accent. It may surprise some to know that a sequel to 2010’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief actually exists,
but a hefty overseas Download Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Movie box office made it inevitable. In Fox’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the story of a well-meaning scion of Poseidon (Logan Lerman) continues as he learns about his godly powers to save a woodland setting that tries its hardest not to remind audiences of Hogwarts.
And that may be the key problem with the film: We’ve seen way too much of this before. Percy’s friend Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario) may use a tablet instead of musty old books, but she feels like Hermione in a couple of key ways. The primary antagonist would like to be Draco Malfoy, but for reasons I’ll get into later, he never quite rises to that level. In director Thor Freudenthal’s adaptation of Rick Riordan’s bestselling fantasy novel, Percy is introduced to his half-brother Tyson. At first, he’s happy to have family, but reconsiders his position once he sees that Tyson is a Cyclops. But before Percy and Tyson can engage in Parent Tra- like antics at Camp Half-Blood, an enormous bronze bull attacks, and the magical tree that protects the camp is mortally wounded by outcast Luke Castellan (Jack Abel). Discovering the tree has been poisoned, camp directors Chiron and Dionysus — called “Mr. D” throughout the film — dispatch their best to recover the Golden Fleece, the only magical item that can heal the tree. Soon after, Percy, Annabeth, Tracy and their satyr pal Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) head out on their own quest to recover the Fleece.The tropes will be familiar to anyone who grew up in the 1980s, when the adventure flick was king. As in those movies, Sea of Monsters operates in a video game-style level-progression structure. I don’t want to call it tedious, but it’s pretty close. Plot-wise, there are no surprises, as every twist and turn is recognizable from a hundred other similar stories. Granted, that’s a problem primarily for those raised on a diet of adventure movies; He’s awkward, but always cheerful and happy to be on the adventure. He enjoys being with kids his own age for the first time in his life and displays a legitimate awe and astonishment in discovering the wider world. Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online Full Movie These days, even in kids’ movies, characters must be blasé about the world. Tyson is anything but that, and a pleasure to watch. Special credit should also be given to the effects team for making his eye pretty seamless.
Similarly, the more monstrous creature effects are well-realized, from the bronze bull to the full-bred Cyclops the group encounters. There’s pizzazz and flair, even in purely CG creatures like a seahorse the group rides; an encounter with Charybdis is also entertaining. The Cyclops sequence appears to use every available trick — from CG to practical effects — to create what I consider the best action sequence in the entire film. It’s just a shame this island of clever craft is adrift in an ocean of halfhearted teen angst. As I alluded to earlier, the primary antagonist, Luke, fails to become a direct parallel to Draco Malfoy because his scenes are dead on arrival. Any time Luke or his comrades appear, they stand at attention while dressed all in black and spout the most obvious teen-villain dialogue. They come off like refugees from The Covenan, and it feels at odds with the lighter tone the movie is otherwise successful at striking. I suppose there’s some irony in that the more serious scenes feel dopey and the dopier scenes have weight to them.The best example of this is Nathan Fillion’s all-too-brief appearance as Hermes: The actor brings his effortless charm to what could be a campy cameo. Indeed, the sequence has some goofball elements, but Fillion raises the material and manages to find some pathos in it as Hermes, Luke’s father, admits he regrets not being the best parent. It really runs the gamut of what a screenwriter, in this case Marc Guggenheim, and an actor of Fillion’s talents can do with the messenger of the gods in a children’s adventure film. As with the Cyclops confrontation and even the final battle, I just wish more of the film had found this balance of concerns.
But, at the same time, I have to give Guggenheim credit for not littering the film with “topical” gag lines meant to illicit chuckles from older viewers. There might be a couple, but they are tied to the movie’s universe, such as the place where Percy and the gang find Hermes, and integrated well enough into the flow of the movie. The shame in it, though, is that he never found a way to develop the absentee-parent theme into a satisfying element for the grown-ups. It is touched upon, but never really gets resolved. I suppose it may get more focus in a subsequent Percy Jackson film. So while kids may enjoy Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, it is not an entertaining family movie with the sort of repeat appeal the Harry Potter series — yes, even Chamber of Secrets — provide. Although well-crafted, its world is not as well-realized and its characters not as appealing to adults. These key elements are essential to great family movies, but maybe they’ll get it worked out in time for Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse.”You’re more than a one-quest wonder,” someone tells Percy Jackson at the outset of his next adventure. Not by the looks of his sequel, he isn’t. The teenaged demigod returns in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, after dispatching with a lightning thief and exhausting much of the franchise’s charm three years ago. That first movie was obviously a calculated grab for Harry Potter-type movie success but didn’t feel like a rip-off. This one skews younger, to an easier-to-please demographic, closely resembling other fantasies since. The Potter similarities remain intact, with the quasi-Muggle — sorry, mortal — Percy (Logan Lerman) joined by an intrepid demigoddess (Alexandra Daddario) and a comic relief sidekick satyr (Brandon T. Jackson). Hermione and Ron shouldn’t worry about their legacy being one-upped. They’re part of the half-blood culture, echoing one of J.K. Rowling’s book titles and that saga’s clan jealousies.There’s also a Hunger Games vibe, with Stanley Tucci overseeing another bone crushing athletic competition among children as the story begins. Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online Free Streaming A gigantic brimstone demon at a key juncture could be a less anatomically correct version of the one in This is the End. For a series inspired by Greek mythology, from which all stories spring, Percy’s new movie seems awfully derivative.
The quest this time is to locate the legendary Golden Fleece, stashed in the Bermuda Triangle and guarded by a nearsighted Cyclops. The fleece’s powers can revive a tree fertilized by the corpse of a half-blood who sacrificed herself for others. Then the protective shield around Half-Blood Camp can be restored, after an armored robo-bull smashed it. That rampaging bovine is one of several artfully designed creatures popping into Thor Freudenthal’s movie, and deserting it soon after. A sea horse — literally a horse with fish tendencies — is lovely, while a scorpion-werewolf hybrid and fanged Charybdis whirlpool provide scary cameos. On the other hand, too much time is spent with three cackling, eyeless witches driving a “chariot of damnation” designed like a New York City cab, in scenes playing like outtakes from that lame Lemony Snicket movie. Other effects are just too silly to be taken seriously, like a Thermos bottle providing jet propulsion, a magical packing tape dispenser and Confederate zombies sailing a ghost ironclad ship. Believe it or not, those aren’t the qualities of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters that really irritated me. One is the ease with which dead characters conveniently come back to life. If that happens once in a fantasy it’s a cheap way out. Here, it happens three times. The other is Percy’s newfound half-brother Tyson (Douglas Smith), the offspring of Poseidon — who can’t keep his trident in his pants — and a sea nymph. Those genetics somehow make Tyson into a Cyclops, although without one trait that would assist Smith’s emoting. Watch Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters Online Megavideo Can a Cyclops get an eyebrow around here?
