It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I thought I would mention my thoughts on the new movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. This movie is very difficult for me to rate, as I really enjoyed the novel. Unfortunately, it seems that someone along the way decided that the novel wasn’t good enough to make a great movie, and decided to do some major tweaking in the screenplay adaptation.

I find this very unfortunate. The novel was great, I give it 4 out of 5 stars. While I realize that it isn’t easy to translate the written word to the big screen, I feel they cut out some very important parts of the novel, and changed the basic premise. With the premise of the novel being changed, I don’t see how they can continue to make the rest of the series into movies without straying farther and farther from the author’s original intent.

My final rating comes in at about 2 out of 5 stars. The movie was at least enjoyable, but it should have been so much more. If you haven’t read The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, I highly recommend you check it out.

Matt’s Rating: (the movie)

Matt’s Rating: (the book)

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