Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters...... Why?

Recently released into box offices was the 2nd iteration of the Percy Jackson Series, “Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters”. This movie is very questionable however for many reasons which I’ll be discussing today. But to start here’s a trailer for those of you who haven’t seen it.

So the first issue with this is this film is that the time between the first movie, “Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief”, is a whopping three and a half years. Now this may not seem like a big gap of time for a sequel however this is for a movie that in while it was very anticipated ended up as a huge flop in the public’s eyes. It currently holds a 5.2 rating on iMDb and the sequel currently only holds a 6.2 rating.

On top of that this sequel has a lot of errors both in it’s writing and shooting. First of all there is a huge plot hole error that while the story revolves around the Golden Fleece and it’s power to “heal anyone and anything” Polyphemus still has poor eyesight even though he wears it over his shoulder. There are also very strange changes to the original story that don’t add to the story or help make filming this movie any easier so they don’t really make sense (I will refrain from giving such examples for the sake of spoilers).

Also there are continuity errors throughout the film. First of all during a taxi scene Percy is seen putting his seat belt on but when it is cut open he is holding onto both sides of the cab no longer with his seat belt with no logical time or reasoning for it, just a plain continuity error. Also in a scene where Annabeth runs to Percy to show him something on her tablet you can see the tablet is completely blank. Plus in the D.C. scene there are skyscrapers in the background which are obviously not found in D.C. On top of all of this these are just things found in the short time it’s been released.

So it seems that this movie was done in a complete sense of let’s make money. Not nearly enough thought process was put into this for being a book turn movie and to help revive a series whose launch movie flopped.