Shirleon joins Melvin in summarizing Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the forgotten sequel to Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Mythical monsters abound in this YA-flick, and the two have a fun time chattin’ what works and what doesn’t in this swan-song of the Percy Jackson theatrical film series.
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 22-minutes playing a Disney Trivia Game that has some pretty dang difficult questions. Can you guess more correctly than Shirleon? (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- The first 10-minutes of the film are expediently-well paced, which for Melvin was a good sign.
- The “Fantasy Racism” from Annabeth to the cyclops Tyson gets to be a bit too much. It’s very one-note.
- When the Three Fates Taxi scene took place, despite evoking Harry Potter 3, Melvin thought to himself, “Oh, I think I’m going to like this movie.”.
- Percy’s character arc is simple, and not all that explicit, but it’s very much about the confusion between a found-family and a born-family, as well as concepts of faith.
- Tyson’s cyclops CGI is off-putting, which is made worse when we see a cyclops in a flashback and it looks awesome.
- Jake Abel plays Luke as this character who likes being the irritating antagonist but is also really, really chill.
- Rewriting scenes, because that’s what you do on a podcast.
Recommendations:
- One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware (2024)
- Shesmadeofwords Podcast
- Lake Mungo (2008)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is Rated PG for fantasy action violence, some scary images and mild language. It features Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, Nathan Fillion, Douglas Smith, Levan Rambin, Jake Abel, Anthony Head, and Stanley Tucci. Directed by Thor Freudenthal. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is available here.
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