Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief Movie Reviews

Teenie boppers have been eagerly waiting for Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. And so have all the Harry Potter fans. With good reason! This film belongs to the same 'magic' genre. Also it's been directed by the master storyteller Chris Columbus, the 'wizard' who gave us Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In the interim apart from the Potter series we've had The Chronicles of Narnia

The film is supposed to be in competition with the Harry Potter series. Let's just say, it offers no competition, even though it's directed by Chris Columbus who directed the initial films in the Potter franchise. And that's primarily because the plot fills you with a sense of deja vu. Based on the first book from Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the five-book young adult series by Rick Riordan, the plot featuring a bunch of demi-god heroes

Greek mythology barges into the sanitised ethos of High School Musical in the frenziedly busy screen adaptation of Rick Riordan’s popular 2005 novel, The Lightning Thief. Because it is the first in the five-book Percy Jackson & the Olympians young-adult series, can a franchise be far behind? I should add that although there is no singing and dancing in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the friendly scuffles at Camp Half-Blood