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Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Prone to series of life problems, the life of teenager Percy Jackson gets a lot more complicated when he learns he's the son of the Greek god Poseidon. Percy learns to harness his divine powers and prepares to prevent a feud among the Olympians from erupting into a devastating war on Earth, and rescue his mother from the clutches of Hades.
9 May 1979, New York City, New York, USA
23 March 1959, Miami, Florida, USA
14 February 1981, Yalta, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Crimea, Ukraine]
29 August 1987, Toronto, Canada
10 July 1989, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
July 31, 2012
It provides a great adventure movie for the family audience.
April 25, 2011
Percy Jackson is simply uninspired in every single meaning of the word. It's probably the crassest, most obviously derivative work of this sort since Eragon.
February 12, 2010
Dutifully Potteresque it begins, and dutifully Potteresque it ends.
August 04, 2010
Manages to pay its respects to the Greek myths and actually convey them as fun.
January 09, 2015
The plot uses the presence of the Greek gods as an indistinct outline to influence teenagers who are more interested in the prestige and glamor of their connection than the responsibility that comes with it.
April 04, 2011
It kind of just builds up to a lot of Not Much.
February 16, 2010
I thought it was mischievous and witty and amusing and I was just sort of drawn into it.
November 05, 2011
The premise of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief holds great potential potential the film never realizes.
February 12, 2010
Has all the CGI sorcery of a Harry Potter pic, but none of the magic.
February 16, 2010
It's not enough to compensate for the computer-game-style plotting, which is largely based on us picking up narrative nuggets that mechanically slot into place later on.
February 18, 2010
The Greek gods had outsized powers and petty grievances. These Gen-Y demigods are no different - it's a whole generation of kids with daddy issues
February 12, 2010
Director Chris Columbus has brought together the modern and mythical spheres with sharp pacing and a nifty sense of fun that atone for the film's dippier moments. It's his most enjoyable effort since Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.