Rick Riordan has written some truly fantastic stories. Who knew you could make Greek mythology so accurately modern? And, even better, they're simple enough stories to adapt to the big screen! Or at least one would think, upon reading the books. What Disney has done has messed everything up. The first movie made it seem impossible to continue the series in any way, but this one does make up for that in some ways.
They bring back the prophesy that is the whole driving factor behind this first series, though they do have to edit the dates because the characters started the first movie at 15, they fix Annabeth to actually have blonde hair and not look like a 22 year old, they actually try to stick to the story a little bit! I was excited. It was already looking better than the first movie! The acting was fine, the story was progressing, they could turn this into a whole series after all! And then something changed.
Half way through the movie the acting turned vapid and removed. It seemed like they were doing nothing more than reading idiotic lines off the page when they were supposed to be in the middle of life or death situations to save the camp. And then came the CGI Kronos that looked eerily like This is the End's devil (minus the swinging male appendage). At that point, I just had to laugh. Disney had done it again! They teased me, got my hopes up, made me believe that I would like Rick Riordan's story in a movie, and then popped the balloon with a horrifically rueful smile.
It's still not as bad as the first movie, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, which was truly horrible, but it was still pretty bad. You could definitely skip the Lightning Thief, and you could probably skip this one too. In the end, I give this a 5 out of 10, maybe just stop watching half-way through and pick up the book to see how it ends!
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