Plot;
A teenager discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.

If you read the books be prepared to be disapointed. All in all the effects were great. the story line was good. A few spots where it got a weak . Having watched it I will give it a 4/5 . The Acting was damn good.

Kids, teens and adults who can get past the Harry Potter brain-freeze will love this adventure.

This is not a Harry Potter flick so dont compare it to the Potter movies in your head, just go in open minded and you will ENJOY it .

Alexandra Daddario (annabeth) is a 10 on the Meter!.

The idea of a kid learning he's a demi-god has such possibilities, & the special effects were pretty good, but the story seemed to fall flat in places. While the acting was very good, & the story line captivating, it still seemed to be missing that certain something that would put it over the edge into greatness.

Didn't think this movie was going to be all that great, but I have to say that it was more than I expected. I love greek mythology and have always been fascinated by the idea of greek gods and beasts. Was dissapointed that they left out some key monsters, one in particular by the name of Cerberus, that I would have expected to see.

This is another case where my presumptions almost made me miss the film entirely. I thought it was going to be a stupid kid's movie, but it turned out to be very good.

Percy Jackson is a normal high-school kid who discovers he's the son of a mortal woman and the Greek god Poseidon, thus making him a demi-god. He's then recruited to train his warrior abilities at Camp Halfblood. With the help of a satyr named Grover (comic relief) and Annabeth, Daughter of Athena (love interest), he sets out on a quest to save his kidnapped mother. He is to collect three of Persephone's pearls - one for each of them - in order to escape the Underworld once he's gone there to rescue his mother. Along the way he encounters Medusa (Uma Thurman), the Lair of the Lotus Eaters, a Hydra, and even Hades himself.

The visuals are as stunning as you would expect from a 2010 movie, but viewers are so accustomed to this that it's not really even impressive anymore, is it? Fight scenes are well-choreographed and fun to watch, and character dialogue is well-written and feels natural.

Some of the jokes are lame and corny, but it's a family movie so that is to be expected. Everything works out for the hero in the end and everyone lives happily ever after (boring), but again, it's a family movie.

Once you get past all of the flashy lights, the movie has a moral: Believe in yourself and never lose faith in your friends, and you can do anything. Not very unique as far as morals go, but it gets the job done.

All in all, my complaints stem from the fact that family movies just aren't my favorite genre. But from a more objective viewpoint, the movie is actually quite good. I'd recommend it to most people, especially those who like feel-good fun-for-the-whole-family types of films.

Every movie involving superheroes requires an origin story, and "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" has a doozy. The Greek gods on Mount Olympus sometimes descend to earth to have children, you see, and these half god, half humans are demigods. They live among us. One is Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman), who is the teenage son of Poseidon and Sally Jackson (Catherine Keener). But he doesn't know this. I wonder if his mom noticed. Kind of a letdown to discover Greek gods are runaway dads.

Percy finds he can think best when underwater for 10 minutes at a time. Poseidon was the god of the sea, you will recall. His best buddy is Grover (Brandon T. Jackson), who is revealed as a sort of assistant demigod assigned to watch over him. His teacher is Mr. Brunner (Pierce Brosnan), who is actually Chiron, a centaur. Give Brosnan a lot credit for wearing the back half of a horse as if he'd been doing it for years.

The movie, based on a novel by Rick Riordan, has fun working out modern parallels for Greek mythology. Percy, for example, thinks he is dyslexic, but it's only that his eyes instinctively turn English into Greek letters. That's no help in class. After learning of his real identity, he goes off to Chiron's demigod training camp with Grover, and he becomes friends with Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), a demi-goddess if ever I've seen one.

The plot heats up. Zeus (Sean Bean) and Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) meet atop the Empire State Building to discuss Zeus' missing lightning bolt, which he believes Percy, Poseidon's son, has stolen. (The story requires a certain suspension of disbelief.) Why, when or how he allegedly might have done so begins as a mystery to Percy, but eventually the situation leads to slam-bam special-effects sequences, as the gods and demigods do battle.

Undoubtedly the biggest attraction among the gods is Medusa, and Uma Thurman demonstrates she can wear a snake-covered head as gracefully as Pierce Brosnan can trot around with a horse's netherlands. There is also the advent of Steve Coogan as Hades. Yes, Steve Coogan. Hades, you recall, is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon.

Or maybe you don't recall. It's one of my weaknesses that I was never able to work up much of an interest in the Greek gods, who made for discouraging fiction because they were entirely defined by their attributes. They had no personalities to speak of, but simply went about doing what they did. You can understand why Zeus is so upset about losing his lightning bolt. That's what he does, hurl that lightning bolt. What is Zeus without his bolt?

Director Chris Columbus has fun with this goofy premise, but as always I am distracted by the practical aspects of the story. Does it bother the Greek gods that no one any longer knows or cares that they rule the world? What are the genetic implications of human/god interbreeding?

And, forgive me, I'll have to double back to Sally Jackson, Percy's mother. How did she meet Poseidon? At the beach, I suppose. Did he reveal his true identity? If a guy picks you up at the beach and says he's Poseidon, do you say, fine, let's not date, let's just mate? Then when the bastard dumps you and disappears, leaving you pregnant, what way is that for a god to behave?

My remaining question involves the title. Call me foolish, but I don't consider "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" an ideal title. The movie's original title was "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief," which at least has the advantage of sounding less like a singing group.

From the moment I saw this movie advertised I wanted to watch it and I must say that I enjoyed watching it. It was simple, with good acting, and a good cast to carry the movie. I liked the story line and enjoyed how everything played out. i you haven't seen it you should.

Percy Jackson is like a step up from Harry Potter. It can be enjoyed by a bigger market than harry potter can be. It has great graphics an GOOD story....the only thing is that the ending could have been a bit better..but it follows a book..so i guess she should have wrote it better...hopefully they continue the series and make more movies..but overall its a movie to see...it gives u a whole mew perspective on mythology and teaches u things too! goo see it now!