We’re
looking now at the second of the Percy Jackson film series and the one
that would end up being the last of them. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
Though the
leads are still familiar, much has changed around them. Thor Freudenthal (whose
name will never stop being funny, when he’s directing a movie based around the
Greek gods) has taken over directing and Marc Guggenheim is the new and still only
writer of the film. Marc Guggenheim’s last and first project as a writer for
film was Green Lantern, and we all know how much I love that film.
I’m a little
more lenient to this book however, it has its flaws, it takes too much time
explaining things anyone who read the last book already knew, but the story
gets moving more quickly, and it isn’t all as melancholy and depressing.
Sadly
though, in the spite of the change of talent, the result was much the same. A
mixed reception and less money at the box office than its predecessor. Let’s
take another look and see if we can work out why
