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But the weak middle section of the film is an earthbound road trip with the three teens as they travel by car from New Jersey to Nashville to Las Vegas to Hollywood in a quest to find three magic pearls that will help free Percy’s Mom. The gods are introduced at the beginning of PERCY JACKSON, their dynamics are established, and the story begins in a world populated by a hodge-podge of mythic beasties ranging from centaurs to satyrs. Jackson) and Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), a beautiful demi-goddess he meets while training at ‘Camp Half-Blood’, and they set off on their otherworldly adventure to save Mom. Percy teams with his young half-goat protector Grover (Brandon T. Percy is accused of stealing the lightning bolt with which his Uncle Zeus (Sean Bean) rules the world, so his other Uncle, Hades, drags Sally to the underworld, holding her hostage in exchange for the bolt. On a class field trip Percy learns that his real dad is Poseidon, the god of the sea, which makes him a demi-god and explains his handy superteen water-driven powers. PERCY JACKSON tells the story of Percy (age 12 in the book, played here by 17 year-old Logan Lerman) who, when we meet him, is a typical teen living with his mother Sally (Catherine Keener) and abusive stepfather Gabe (Joe Pantoliano).
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There’s enough CGI-enhanced spectacle to keep this rather lightweight action movie entertaining and the clever way its story is tied to trivia about Greek mythology could work as a primer for tweens the way the NATIONAL TREASURE films did with American history. Still, despite its ‘been-there-done-that’ trappings, there’s a lot to like in PERCY JACKSON and I suspect the many young fans of the books by Rick Riordan (a series of five) won’t be disappointed.