Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Jackson:_Sea_of_Monsters Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is the sequel to 2010’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. The principal cast of the first movie reprised their roles here with the notable exception of Pierce Brosnan as Chiron and is replaced instead by Anthony Stewart Head. In fact Brosnan is not the only big name actor from the first film who did not return for this one. In the first film it presented the gods of Olympus played by big name actors but the gods weren’t seen in this film hence the big name actors not being in this film although according to IMDb Sean Bean reprised the role of Zeus voice only and uncredited. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s Nick Dent in his review of Sea of Monsters noted that with Head playing Chiron he was for all intents and purposes reprising his old role as Buffy’s mentor Giles. (So I guess by the same token when Brosnan played Chiron in the first movie he was basically like Q to James Bond which is ironic since Brosnan used to be Bond himself.) Head is not the only Whedonverse alum in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters as it also featured former Firefly lead actor Nathan Fillion playing Hermes. As Hermes, Fillion makes an obvious reference to Firefly in the form of a fictional show that had a similar lifespan to Firefly. Other members of the cast includes Yvette Nicole Brown as one of the Gray sisters and I am also seeing Ms Brown in the Community TV series. Sea of Monsters had an intriguing beginning with a backstory but the storyline becomes somewhat slow. Overall it is OK with adequate resolution for the main plot but ends thrillingly which sets up on what is to come for the next instalment in the Percy Jackson series The Titan’s Curse. In Nick Dent’s aforementioned review of Sea of Monsters he gave it three stars with the verdict of “Solid fantasy sequel”. In his concluding paragraph Dent said that clever “as the story often is, the dialogue is glib and silly and [Thor] Freudenthal’s direction is flat. There is magic but not a sense of wonder” but says that “youngsters have to watch something in school holidays, and may as well acquire a grounding in classical myth while they’re about it.”
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:14:23 +0000
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