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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Thor Freudenthal | |
| Actors: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Fantasy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 22.01.2014, DVD | |
| Synopsis: In order to restore their dying safe haven, the son of Poseidon and his friends embark on a quest to the Sea of Monsters to find the mythical Golden Fleece. | |
| Review: The story is not as full of new characters and mythologies as the first episode Percy Jackson and the Olympians, but has a couple of very good ideas. The directing is then a bit chaotic. I like to have different types of scenery and graphical esthetic in one movie and Freudenthal manages to do it. But the story line seems sometime very chaotic, very long scenes in the Sea of Monsters, very short scenes with people talking, in particular with Clarissa. Well, as a fan of mythologies, I had to watch it, but seing it more rationally, it is quite average. The SFX are not so good except still the amazing centaurs and the cyclopes. The green screen SFX are too obvious and done as in the 90s with rough image connections. The picture was not so well thought except for the "sharks" and in the cave of the cyclope. The acting of the semi-gods is basic, even if I like the acting of Brandon T. Jackson. And there is still no use of the music, while this kind of movie could be much better with epic music. The time of the peplum is definitely gone. The DVD is also quite deceiving because there is no more extras about the Greek mythology as I have seen in the DVD of the Olympians. |
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Rating: 4 /10
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Percy Jackson: Sea of monsters (2013)
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This sounds very much like the first movie. Not very tempting...
ReplyDeleteI wrote previously that I was not very tempted by it, but I watched it anyway on 21.06.2014 in HD VOD on my Home cinema. I actually preferred it to the first one, in particular because less time is spent in the "school for demi-gods", a concept which I found ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI found that the characters have a little more depth although I agree with you that their acting is not exceptionnal. I also appreciated that the movie is a quest, but it doesn't look like a road movie in which the teenagers look for mythological creatures played by kown actors, like in the first.
I liked some of the special effects, like the mechanical bull at the beginning (reminding Guillermo del Toro's Golden Army in Hellboy 2) and Chronos at the end.
But in the end the movie still looks like a popcorn movie for American teenagers, and not a modern peplum like you could have expected. My rating is also 4/10.