Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is one of the latest offerings to try to capture some of the magical success the Harry Potter series has had. Yet it doesn’t offer much uniqueness in its story to keep references to its predecessor series out of people’s minds. It’s its subject of Gods and Greek mythology that offers the slightest difference.
Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) is a teenager who excels at swimming for his ability to hold his breath underwater. He doesn’t see anything peculiar about it and starts to just see it as a skill. At home he is bullied by his mother’s lazy boyfriend and as far as he knows his father is dead. On a school fieldtrip the life that has been hidden from him is revealed when he is almost killed by a fury. His teacher and his friend reveal themselves as a satyr and a centaur who take him to safety to Camp Half-Blood, which is just a bit too similar in name to its competing series. There he gains control of his full abilities and meets Alexandra (Annabeth Chase), daughter of Athena. Later Percy ventures out to rescue his mother and take find the lightning bolt that will clear his name with the help of Alexandra and Grover (Brandon T. Jackson).
The film is a clever distraction yet it doesn’t quite reach an individualism that makes it unique. The way the films villains are presented such a Lotus Eaters at the Lotus Casino in Las Vegas show that there was some potential in the film. But it falls flat without having much to sustain itself on without the support of the Harry Potter series.
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