Percy Jackson Movies are the American feature-film series that is based on Rick Riordan’s novel. It consists of two installments, which is produced by 1942 pictures and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Directed by Chris Columbus, the first film ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’ released on 12th February, 2010 and the second film ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’ released on 7th August, 2013 which was directed by Thor Freudenthal. The second installment of the Percy Jackson Movies, earned $430 million worldwide.
In December 2017, The Walt Disney Company acquired the rights from 20th Century Fox for $52.4 billion and it is not known if Walt Disney will revive the series. The movies received mixed reviews and averagely got 45% of rotten tomatoes on IMDB but it earned huge box office success.
The two installments of the Percy Jackson Movies are discussed below:
2. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
The second installment of the Percy JacksonMovies, it is based on Rick Riordan’s second novel ‘The Sea of Monsters’. Douglas Smith, Leven Rambin and Stanley Tucci joined this second film of the franchise while Anthony Head and Nathan Fillion replaced Peirce Brosnan and Dylan Neal. Produced by Karen Rosenfelt and Michael Barnathan, the second part of the Percy JacksonMovies was also directed by Chris Columbus. It is a stand-alone sequel to Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, this movie received mixed critical reviews but turned out to be commercially very successful at the box office grossing over $202 million worldwide. The second feature film of the Percy Jackson Movies was also released on Blu-Ray, 3D Blu-Ray and DVD.
The plot revolves around Percy who recounted Thalia and her sacrifice while Luke, Grover, Thalia and Annabeth were running to camp half-blood while being chased by monsters. Thalia’s father Zeus, converted her into a pine tree to create a border around the camp so that the monsters can’t invade in and others reach safely. However, the camp got attacked by Colchis Bull who was defeated by Percy and an injured Luke visits Percy to confront and convert him into his cause, however, on Percy’s refusal he disappears.
Percy visited the Oracle and learnt from Chiron that he is the only human half-blood alive, when he went to learn about the prophecy of half-blood of the eldest gods for protecting or destroying Olympus. Thalia’s tree was poisoned by Luke and was vulnerable to attacks and to heal it, Annabeth and Grover starts to learn about the Golden Fleece which has the power to heal anything. Mr. D agreed to help Annabeth and Grover and both of them were joined by Percy and Tyson. Percy threatened the 3 drivers (the Graeae) to tell about their prophecy and earned the coordinates of the Bermuda Triangle or the Sea of Monsters while, Annabeth hailed the Chariot of Damnation because they lacked money.
Grover got kidnapped by Rodriguez and was taken to Luke. With the help of Hermes, Percy, Tyson and Annabeth located Luke and rode a hippocampus to his yacht named the ‘Andromeda’. Luke revealed his plan of destroying Olympus by reviving Kronos, on using the fleece efficiently. Percy and his mates were caged but could escape later on when Percy manipulated the water using his powers. However, they again get attacked by Charybdis and figures out Clarisse in the monster’s stomach. Percy and Clarisse paired up as a team to shoot out from the monster’s gut and landed up at Circeland. They all reunite here and escape from this place with the fleece which later Luke wanted and on Percy’s refusal, he shot an arrow which Tyson took for Percy but survived it. Kronos consumed Luke and Grover, rising from the sarcophagus but Percy dominates it with the ‘cursed blade’. Annabeth got stabbed by Manticore, but Percy successfully handed over the fleece to Clarisse who gave it to Thalia and transformed her to human form. Percy realises Thalia could be another child of prophecy and this part of the Percy Jackson movies ends with Kronos glowing to imply he might have some power left and might return soon to destroy Olympus.
IMDb 5.8 / Release Date: 2013
Trailer / Director: Thor Freudenthal
1. Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2010)
The Lightning Thief (2010): Directed by Chris Columbus, this fantasy film is based on Rick Riordan’s novel named ‘The Lightning Thief’. Starring an ensemble cast, the first part of the Percy Jackson Movies took $95 million to be made. In the first weekend, it ranked as the second highest grosser and earned $38.8 million. The critics gave mixed reviews, but the movie earned $226.48 million worldwide. The film also released on Blu-Ray and DVD and a video game was also released based on this movie by the Activision. The sequel to this film was released on August, 2013.
The plot of the first film of Percy Jackson Movies revolved around Zeus and Poseidon who stood on the top of the Empire State Building, Zeus accused Poseidon’s demi god son, Percy Jackson of stealing his master lightning bolt. To defend his son, Poseidon claims that he is unaware of Zeus’ original identity, but Zeus does not agree to it and asks him to return his power to Mount Olympus in two days’ time, otherwise there war will be inevitable. Percy, a 16 year old boy has a unique ability to stay underwater for a long time and appeared a bit dyslexic to his friends. He was attacked by Fury when his friends saved him and his mother, Sally and his Latin teacher Mr. Brunner gave him a pen and asked him to use it with his own discretion.
Minotaur attacked Sally and killed her but Percy used the pen (which was a sword) and killed Minotaur with his own horns. Percy learnt Grover and Brunner were disguised and he starts to train himself to use his Demi-god powers. He also learnt that Sally is alive and will be returned only after he hands over the lightning bolt to Zeus. The trio headed out and got the first pearl from the garden center, the second from Parthenon in Nashville and the third from Lotus Casino is Las Vegas. With all three pearls they headed to Underworld, right behind the ‘Hollywood’ Sign. Hades revealed that Luke is the lightning thief. On receiving pearls, Sally was set free and they all teleported to Empire state Building. Luke attacked them, but got killed by Percy and returned the lightning bolt to Zeus thus reuniting with Poseidon. In the post credit of Percy Jackson Movies, sound of Ugliano is heard and screen turned black.
IMDb 5.9 / Release Date: 2010
Trailer / Director: Chris Columbus
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