The monsters are just large and scary, but there isn't enough suspense provided. Also in the action scenes, it makes the audience think that a certain sequence is thrilling, which is actually not. These special effects really did a great job covering the laziness of depicting the plot, it's not much of a merit, but it's a sneaky trick the filmmakers have made. They can still be generic, but in an eye candy way. Well, at least they tend to make the aesthetics look a bit better. It feels too easy for these demigods to walk along even at the most seemingly difficult situations. It's just going one spectacular looking place to another, giving away facts to the heroes then proceed. The overall journey is not really that compelling. I think that is what they normally do, which forgets to actually develop them. It is once again has the characters explaining stuff throughout their adventure, even the lessons they have to learn are suddenly burst out in the third act. But further more, it suffers in storytelling. The film is now more interested in presenting the extraordinary elements of this fantastical world, inviting us to something bigger than what we could imagine, since this is what fantasy movies usually need. The sequel easily forgets a lot of the first film's flavor and tries to make a new one.
There isn't much new about this sequel except its colors, but even all that are not enough to get this series any better. The storytelling still relies on over explaining every detail the audience should know. It's now in a whole new direction, the biggest difference is it added a lot of CGI and elevates the scale which may forget the uninspired vision of the first one, but those wonderful visuals hardly improves anything at all. Now they continued the story in the big screen with Sea of Monsters. The books, I bet, are obviously better, despite of not reading them yet. Admittedly, it's still uninspired in the way it tells its story.
The tone pretty much reminiscent the eighties/nineties blockbuster, and then the likes of the big stars and the adventurous feel. Personally, I kind of enjoyed the first Percy Jackson movie.
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