PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNIN' THIEF : Harry Potter with a HOT girlfriend ?

Feb/19
2010

PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNIN' THIEF : Harry Potter with a HOT girlfriend ?

I have read the three or four first books of the series.

They are quite good. You have action all along the way, you never get bored as you did when reading the Harry Potter doorstoppers. Yeah, I often got bored reading what this English brat had to say about anything, which was often nothing.

It does not mean that this Percy Jackson has more to say. But in a way, he is a little more likable than the teenage wizard. Of course they have many things in common : the sad childhood and the crappy families. Potter's is better in a way, because his parents are both dead, whereas Jackson's are alive.

There is this problem with him : he is a fuckin' demigod, which means that his dad was a whole God sonofabitch. And his mother is just that : a bitch.

He has got a buddy : the guy is a bloody cripple and although he is supposed to be his protector, he is really lousy at protecting anyone, including his own sorry ass. And there's the second common feature with HPotter. Percy has a male buddy and a female one. Dontcha think it really looks like the Harry Ron Hermione love/hate triangle ?

It fuckin' does.

BUT, this girl is HOT. In the movie, at least. She's the daughter of Athena, meaning she's not too stupid, either. Well, their adventures are, unfortunately, because they have to rescue Percy's mother, who's been kidnapped by Hades, God of Hell. And to go down there, they have to find three pearls, and blah-blah-blah. I won't need my sleeping pills tonight.

But on the way, they stumble upon a fuckin' HOOOOOTTT Medusa, played by Uma Thurman, even HOOTTEERR than her usual natural combustionness, if I may say so. Fucker decapitates her. And don't even use her mouth post-mortemly for a little blow-me-the-jobby. Stupid bastard !

Well in this film there's also ex-James Bond Percy, sorry Pierce Brosnan, in the role of a centaur.

But although I tried as much I could, I could not locate his hanging family jewels when he was in his centaur guise.

So the film sucks a bit, unfortunately.
And Uma doesn't suck at all, which is even more unfortunate.