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The long-anticipated sequel of Percy Jackson was, to be brutally honest, a huge letdown.
While I personally did not have high expectations, I was still slightly let down.
Let us begin by comparing the movie to its book counterpart. While I fully understand that basing a movie off of a book does not mean the events will be exact in any way, I was still surprised with how much had been changed.
CAUTION! SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE BOOKS AND THE MOVIES LIE BEYOND THIS POINT!
(also a superbly unbelievably long list of everything that was different int he movies than the books)
The first fifteen to twenty minutes were completely foreign to me in every way expect for the story of Thalia's tree and the entrance of Tyson. Instead of beginning in Percy's school with the cannibalistic dodge ball team, we saw the stars in Camp Half-Blood. We were introduced into a sadly beautified Clarisse and Tyson, who seemed to have simply arrived at camp.
While I could go into most details of the movie and how they were changed, I'll attempt to just go into the basics. Here are the biggest things I noticed after what was mentioned above:
No Tantalus
Chiron stayed at Camp
Grover was taken while Percy, Annabeth, Tyson and he were in Washington, D.C. after catching a ride from the Sisters from Luke's cohorts. He was not missing from the beginning and did not star in any dreams whatsoever. (He did, however, wear a wedding dress later on, but we'll get to that.)
Hermes was seeked out by the trio of Annabeth, Percy, and Tyson in order to find out where Luke was.
They received the thermos and, instead of chewable vitamins in fun Minotaur and hydra shapes, a matter-desolving tape roller. (Bonus points for Nathan Fillion and the slightly obscure Firefly reference that had me laughing for at least two minutes.)
The Mist was kind of nonexistent. Now this had me really confused, but outside of Camp, Tyson still had one eye. This was only remedied when Annabeth gave him her sprayable Mist.
Tyson was very different. This made me rather angry. He spoke perfectly well and normally, whereas in the book he had a specific speaking pattern that I felt fit his character perfectly.
They caught Luke's yacht the Andromeda off the coast of the Chesapeake bay and escaped on that lifeboat
They were eaten by Charybdis and met up with Clarisse and her zombie-staffed Confederate ship in her stomach
The Sea of Monsters was hidden by Circeland, an abandoned amusement park built by Circe (no C.C., no guinea pig pirates and Percy)
They got into Polyphemus' lair through a ride (with the most creative name) that led them underneath the park and straight into it
They all managed to get away with the Fleece only to be captured by Luke
Tyson feel into rough water and assumedly died (he was revealed as alive a few minutes later after saving Percy form Luke's sword)
Luke brought Kronos back to life (yes, full-on resurrection) and was then eaten by Kronos (along with Grover and some other half-bloods that followed Luke)
Percy defeated Kronos with his sword, rescuing those who were eaten and sending him back to the chest his parts were contained in
Annabeth was killed by one of the bear monsters (of which I believe there was only one) and then revived by the Fleece immediately thereafter
Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Tyson, and Clarisse returned to camp together
One of the biggest things that happened before Percy left to get the Fleece was the revealing of the Prophecy. He spoke with Luke after defeating the Bull and then questioned Chiron about it; he spoke with the Oracle, who told him part of the prophecy. The whole thing wasn't heard by anyone. I'm not sure if this was purposeful and the rest will be revealed at a later point or if they changed the prophecy to only include what was heard. It was changed and completely unexpected.
Holy shit, that was waaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than I intended.
Basically, the people who made this movie didn't read the books.
Besides all the changes made, it wasn't the best of movies in any manner. While the effects were cool, it wasn't exactly riveting. My unbiased father stated that it wasn't that good of a movie and he would've been perfectly happy waiting for it to come on TV to see.
TL;DR: Not a very good movie overall and especially odd for fans of the book.
