Percy sometimes acts like a bit of a jerk, but he gets over it. Pierce Brosnan, Rosario Dawson, Sean Bean, Joe Pantoliano, and a bunch of other familiar faces are used effectively. Percy is Perseus, Medusa ( Uma Thurman) sells statuary at Auntie Em’s Garden Emporium, the Land of the Lotus Eaters is Las Vegas, and Hades. The story’s connections to Greek myth are not exactly consistent, but often amusing, nonetheless. Jackson) and Aphrodite’s hot spawn ( Alexandra Daddario). Soon he takes off on a quest to both save his abducted mom and convince Zeus that he’s innocent, accompanied by his satyr best friend ( Brandon T. Zeus thinks Percy has stolen his lightning bolt, so the boy is whisked off to Camp Half Blood to train with all the other demigod kids. Percy ( Logan Lerman) is a high school misfit, who discovers that his absentee dad is Poseidon ( Kevin McKidd), thanks to an Atlantic City fling with Mom ( Catherine Keener). Chris Columbus, who directed the first two “ Harry Potter” films, takes on similar material with this adaptation of the first of Rick Riordan’s “ Percy Jackson” series.
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