WATCHING A FILM: PERCY JACKSON

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

The Greek gods are alive and kicking in TWENTY-FIRST-Century New York.

“ Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood. I never

asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a

normal kid, going to school, playing basketball,

skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally

vaporized my maths teacher. That’s when things

started really going wrong. Now I spend my time

fighting with swords, battling monsters with my

friends and generally trying to stay alive.”

Based on Rick Riordan’s incredible book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and with stunning visual effects, Percy Jackson’s story is brought to life. Percy (Logan Lerman – cool name, right?) is a twelve year-old boy, living in New York with his mother. The first twelve years of his life have been fairly normal, although kind of troubled – his dad left when he was a baby, and he’s been in and out of schools ever since. Normal, that is, until Percy discovers that his Latin teacher, Mr Brunner (Pierce Brosnan), is an immortal centaur in disguise, that the foul-breathing creature who has been dogging him is actually a minotaur and that his dad is still very much alive and just happens to be a Greek god!

What does that make Percy? A demigod of course . . . Taken to a top-secret training camp for demigods called Camp Half Blood, Percy’s training doesn’t go quite to plan. For Zeus (Sean Bean), god of the sky, thinks that Percy has stolen his almighty lightning bolt – his signature weapon. And making Zeus angry is a very bad idea indeed. So begins a mad quest by Percy Jackson and his friends, Grover and Annabeth, to find the real lightning thief.

Along the way, they become entrapped by a slithery Medusa (Uma Thurman), meet a leatherjacketed biker going by the name of Hades, god of war, and descend into the fearful Underworld to meet Hades (Steve Coogan), god of the dead.

But will Percy find the missing lightning bolt and return it to Zeus before a fully fledged war of the gods erupts ...  

 The trailer:  http://youtu.be/xko1Mx5w4tg

 The film:     http://www.percyjacksonmovie.co.uk/

More information:    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/

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