Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
August 7, 2013 in theaters
Percy Jackson and his friends travel into the Sea of Monsters -- the mythological equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle -- to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood from a poisoned barrier. The second film in the Percy Jackson series adapts the second book of Rick Riordan's middle-grade fantasy.
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QUOTE
"Half-bloods are stronger together."
DID YOU KNOW?
The Hippocampus creatures required months of testing to design a convincing fish-horse in CGI.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
A sequel that arrives with a smaller budget and a more modest ambition than the first film and is mostly consistent with both. The Cyclops sequence and the Charybdis set piece are the film's action highlights, and the mythology expansion is handled with reasonable care. The franchise never found the creative momentum it needed to distinguish itself from the field, and Sea of Monsters confirms that the adaptation would not recover the ground lost in the first entry. A functional but unremarkable continuation.