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Percy Jackson & the Olympians : the Lightning Thief

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Based on the novel by Rick Riordan.
DVD release of the 2010 motion picture.
Special features: 5 deleted scenes; Discover your powers quiz; "The book comes to life" featurette.
Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Melina Kanakaredes, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman.
Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager, he's the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt, and prevent a war among the gods that could destroy our world!
DVD; region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; dual layer.
Contents: Percy Jackson & the Olympians.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

yikes! submitted by andyer on August 20, 2010, 11:08am Really bad acting by young Percy. I couldn't stand to watch the whole movie....

meh submitted by manz on August 24, 2010, 12:19pm Well, I like YA fiction, and I like Greek Mythology... So why didn't I just read the book? I can't answer that. I checked it out before, if that counts, but I know it doesn't.

The movie was okay. I was not excited with the actors, and I am wondering what all I missed, as movie adaptations are such watered down versions of the books.

Rest assured, I am indeed on hold for book 2 in the series!

Not Bad submitted by pkooger on October 6, 2010, 9:10am I had heard terrible things about this film, but I really loved the books, so I resolved to watch the film anyway. I was prepared for the worst, but was pleasantly surprised. The acting was not masterful, no, but how many teen actors are actually great actors? Has anybody seen the Disney channel or Nickelodeon lately? Come on.

I think my favorite part of the film was their depiction of Hades (the place, not the person). I really liked the river of lost dreams and the god Hades' mansion over a fiery precipice. I also liked their use of Lady Gaga's "Pokerface" as the theme of hedonism at the Lotus Casino.

I'm looking forward to the next film, and as long as they don't have too many of Annabelle's horribly scripted fight scenes, it could be a pretty good movie.

How are they going to follow this? submitted by SarahRose on October 6, 2010, 3:17pm Despite a star studded cast this movie has some supremely bad acting and I really can't see a way for the other books in the series to ever become movies because of the vast plot changes they made in this one. How can you have a sequel when one of the main characters is left completely out of the storyline? I'm a little depressed that there won't be a sequel because I think the books are quite fun.

BAD submitted by sangeun on June 18, 2011, 8:43pm Thje movie just messed up on the book. Ares wasn't there. And Percy just finds out that he's the son of posiden!

So-So submitted by Smiles on June 18, 2011, 9:24pm The movie is that good- not as good as the books. They don't have Clarisse, Luke, and many other important characters!!!

Horrible submitted by mysterio on June 19, 2011, 7:14am They totally messed it up!

awesome submitted by tcaldera97 on June 22, 2011, 11:28am this book is amazing, as fo th others who say its okay i understand but still amazing

bad submitted by cinderellariley on June 23, 2011, 7:11am I couldnt finish this movie......

It's ok submitted by nlemerand on June 24, 2011, 2:37pm If you hadn't seen this movie you would have thought it was the best hit of the summer. But If you did see then it was really messed up.

Awzome submitted by TripleH123 on June 26, 2011, 8:18pm This movie is great! I almost liked it as much as I liked the book!!!!!!!!!!

Not as Good as Book submitted by Ying Zh on June 30, 2011, 5:36pm In the movie, they were missing some important characters (like Mr.D) and the movie truly isn't as good as the book. However the side affects were pretty good and overall of a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give it a 8.

awsome submitted by omar on July 3, 2011, 5:01pm just awsome

ehhh submitted by pbapat on July 5, 2011, 3:15pm They did no justice to the books

Not Good submitted by ColeenT on July 12, 2011, 9:52am It's not good compared to the books

... submitted by sophie104 on July 12, 2011, 2:55pm It's good for a movie, but a let down if you've read the books. They totally butchered the story: important characters missing (mr. d, clarisse, **kronos*).

Interesting.... submitted by northeorg on July 12, 2011, 8:11pm I've watched this movie and in my opinion i think that its awesome...
but a lot of people said its NoThInG compared to the book,
so i guess the book is better but i still really like this movie so
go watch it if you haven't :) I want to read the books because
people said they were really good :D


~Noora

UNFAITHFUL! submitted by Zeineb on July 15, 2011, 3:29pm okay, so as a movie on its own, its okay. but compared to the book, it is horrible! it has absolutely nothing in common with the book except for the characters names, that's it!

okay submitted by readingking on July 15, 2011, 8:15pm it's not as good as the book

ok submitted by foxridgect on July 16, 2011, 2:26pm they didn't include a lot of characters like Mr. D and Clarrise. The book was much better

Ok submitted by lec.dank on July 23, 2011, 12:24pm It was ok. Not that good.

Eh submitted by haanhl on July 27, 2011, 4:07pm I was excited to see this movie, but it really wasn't that good. I've never read any of the books, but I've heard that they're better. When it first came out, lots of people said that it was like Harry Potter, but I don't think so. I did like certain parts of the movie though, like when they were in the Lotus Casino, but overall I wouldn't suggest it.

highly disapointing submitted by ferdoble on August 2, 2011, 4:40pm This is of the vain of book movies that isn't that good in its own right and not even faithfull enough to the book to get that demographic to like it.

Bleh. submitted by 0liviap0pp on August 13, 2011, 10:37am This is not the best of the movies I've seen.

Great submitted by Morgsush on August 21, 2011, 9:29pm This is a great movie.

A Work of Fan Fiction - Not Perfect but Trying submitted by jcdriver on September 2, 2011, 5:28pm This movie is not exactly like the book, although it tries and - to some extent - succeeds in presenting the emotional impact of the Percy Jackson series. While I disagree with some choices - for instance, - they should NEVER have had Percy use the flying tennis shoes (that is against the cannon in the books that Percy, as Poseidon's son, does not do well on airplanes as the sky in Zeus' domain), other choices such as substituting Nashville's Parthenon for the St. Louis Arch, actually enhance the story.

It will be interesting what they do in the just recently green lighted sequel, since they have potentially killed off Luke (hey - he could have survived the watery trident to the throat - maybe Kronos will pick him up at sea in his cruise ship).

Logan Lerman is a good choice for Percy. While older than Percy in the original volumes, he has a boyish face that still lends some innocence and sweetness to the character. Loved the ancillary casting with Sean Bean as Zeus.

Sit back and enjoy it as a movie and as long as you don't expect it to be the same as the book - you might actually enjoy it!

ready for part eight! submitted by lekendrick on February 29, 2012, 7:09pm it's wonderful! A whole movie about greek & roman gods only debate can be had paints otherside right of the 700 club I'm honestly fine such entertainment! It's issues, but largely fine I'd wonder at closing scene gods zeus larger than life behind rope oppose demi-gods magical stuff other side small or human size is that really going hold up or is it old now, but free of edge in such things you least can say such fare has tradition...

eh submitted by chunhonglin on March 31, 2012, 7:26pm I don't see how there could be a sequel. There wasn't even a mention of kronos. Percy Jackson without Kronos is like a Harry Potter movie without Voldemort.....

huh submitted by Maha Ali on June 20, 2012, 7:19pm most of the reviews are wrong. thats the best movie in the world

Ehh, it's ok submitted by VickyB77 on July 10, 2012, 1:48pm I need to stop reading books before seeing the movies. It never works out well, and this is no exception. They didn't even mention a few major characters (Dionysus, Thalia, Clarisse, Ares, etc.) and the characters they DID have weren't right (Percy is supposed to be 12, not able to drive; Annabeth should be blond; Posideon should be a beachbum, not a warrior; etc.). The story was different, too. In fact, I don't think they got any part of the movie exactly right.
That being said, it was a pretty good movie. The acting wasn't bad, and the special effects were great. In short, I'd rate it better if it hadn't been "ruined" by the book! ;)

Not as Good as Book, but still good submitted by vadnala on July 11, 2012, 4:05pm Almost as good as book. Movie was okay

Read the books instead submitted by cherylo on July 20, 2012, 9:57pm Having read the book first and been thoroughly enthralled, and being a fan of Kevin McKidd (Poseidon) and Sean Bean (Zeus), I was looking forward to this movie. However, I spent most of the film yelling at the screen. The effects are excellent. The performances are equally wonderful. However, the script writers, producers, and/or meddling studio execs absolutely butchered the story and many of its details. I am not hopeful that the further adventures of Percy Jackson will be filmed, and I'm not even sure how they would reconcile the differences in the story arc if they attempted to make a series of it.

I therefore only recommended this for the completist, or possibly the movie fan wanting to see the performances of the particular actors involved, which are actually quite nice.

Updated to add: the second book, Sea of Monsters, is being made into a movie. I will watch it if only to see Nathan Fillion (Castle, Dr. Horrible's Siing-Along Blog, Firefly) as Hermes, but my expectations for the story itself are very low.

Disappointed :( submitted by philiptv on June 17, 2013, 11:21am I was disappointed. The books are way better and the way the plot goes, there can't be a sequel. :(

Good submitted by Memoria1224 on June 17, 2013, 11:57am This was a good movie, but the book was a lot better.

AWESOME submitted by FionaNgai on June 24, 2013, 4:10pm AWESOME

ok.... submitted by bookworm12345 on June 27, 2013, 11:14am Pretty good movie. However, the person that plays Annabeth chase is a brunette..... Annabeth is supposed to be blonde

pretty good submitted by nwall24 on June 27, 2013, 6:01pm I thought this was pretty good. Though I've never read the book so I had nothing to compare it to.

Horrible! Who directed this!!?? submitted by xiwang on June 30, 2013, 5:24pm This movie is absolutely downright horrible! I read the book before I watched the movie and I found it hard to believe that it was the same story. Absolutely horrible! They didn't follow the story at all! Scenery and pictures suck! :(

Book is much, much better submitted by Josie Brown on July 8, 2013, 12:06pm I highly recommend that you read the book before you watch this poorly made movie.

Not Good submitted by wulfflynn on July 13, 2013, 8:21pm The book was waayyyyyyyyyy better

The Movie submitted by mwallagm on July 16, 2013, 10:28am A thrilling kid's movie, this is a fun flick to watch. Sadly, I was disapointed with the final result.
I am a big Percy Jackson fan, and the movie didn't follow the book as well as was expected.
However, it is pretty good on it's own, so give it a try!

The movie for the second book (Percy jackson and the Sea of Monsters)is coming soon!

Ok submitted by rlmorgan on August 22, 2013, 5:29pm The movie isn't bad, but the best thing about it was it got me reading the books. The books are much better. The movie does change quite a bit. Rick Riordan is amazing at working greek mythology into very entertaining fiction.

too easy to understand submitted by catgirl12 on March 15, 2014, 3:13pm where is kronos? and i wanted the whole "hail persus jackson" and all.:[

Diappointing submitted by wendylawrencemorgan on July 30, 2014, 8:43am With such great books, they had a chance to make a great movie. They didn't. They changed the age of the character, which was extremely lame, and didn't follow the story very well.

Ok submitted by shailu on January 17, 2015, 7:45pm ANNABETH IS BLONDE!!!'!!!!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise it is ok

Lightning Thief submitted by SBNB on June 30, 2015, 1:42pm At the beginning, I thought it had the potential to be better than the book. Even though I liked both Grover and Percy more in the movie than in the book, it still wasn't enough to make this movie great. A lot of stuff was changed, but they weren't positive improvements in my opinion. Not good.

Fun to watch submitted by kjshaffer on August 9, 2015, 4:34pm I like Percy Jackson because it has lots of action. The Greek Mythology is very interesting to learn in a fun way.

liked it submitted by Jackie77 on August 9, 2015, 10:02pm I really enjoyed the movie. Must say I have not read any Percy books though, so that could be why I feel different than most of the reviews. Nice acting and scenery.

Movie was okay submitted by tbbrown76 on June 19, 2016, 4:50pm Book is better. They don't develop characters enough in the movie. Especially the brother of Percy.

Camp Half-Blood submitted by Alex Hannah on July 5, 2016, 7:12am Good movie, great story.

Mediocre submitted by toschag on August 2, 2016, 11:00pm An okay movie, pretty generic YA content.

THE BEST MOVIE!!! submitted by rawan on September 3, 2017, 7:18pm This movie and book are really good to watch and read

Lets down the books submitted by evelet on June 17, 2018, 8:53pm I loved this book, so I was disappointed when I saw the movie, as it was not great acting, and it strayed from the book. I'd say it's not worth watching.

GOod submitted by Zaneeba on July 1, 2018, 6:07pm this was good i liked it

Good movie! submitted by Xris on August 28, 2018, 9:16pm This was great to show the kids at school after we'd read the book. Some of the changes they had to make because they adapted it to the screen weren't my favorite, but it was a good movie!

Nice movie! submitted by wookeny on June 19, 2019, 9:00am The movie was great, but it wasn't similar to the book. I was confused in some of the parts, but other wise it was a great movie!

Bad submitted by c_zhang on June 29, 2019, 12:31am This movie completely strays away from the book. It wasn't done very well either. Why is Annabeth like 20 years old in this?

Great submitted by shivatavane on July 1, 2019, 5:36pm It is a okay-bad story for good and evil.

ok submitted by kellyb1 on July 21, 2019, 2:47pm not as great as the book seris but still pretty good

percy jackson and the lighting thief submitted by kwinokur on August 9, 2019, 10:52am this movie is not like the book at all I would rather read the book 10 times instead of watching the movie.

Okay submitted by pakapaoannarborlibrary on August 31, 2019, 5:00pm Not as bad as I thought it would be. The bad part is that they missed so many details and I got a little confused for some moments not going to lie

The best!!!!! submitted by catmhorning on July 12, 2020, 7:18am This may be the best series ever except for the heroes of Olympus!

Must Read for Middle Schoolers submitted by Nay7 on August 15, 2020, 10:52pm The book that got me to start seriously reading

Peter Johnson movies submitted by Fleabag on August 27, 2020, 4:29pm There’s a reason people call these the Peter Johnson movies. I mean, if you had never read the series, it would actually be a pretty good movie. Annabeth is basically useless and it seems like the director didn’t even read the book. Sooo....

great submitted by lamitchell5 on June 11, 2022, 5:35pm its good and has a lot of detail

Meh submitted by Abbie D. on June 29, 2022, 12:30pm I watched the movie before I read the books and thought it was pretty good. Then I read the book and it was SO MUCH BETTER. The movie butchers the book, it essentially took a wonderful author's ideas, kept the names and the greek gods then threw the rest of it out the window. Still bugs me they made Annabeth brunette in the movie cause she's the daughter of the goddess of wisdom so they couldn't cast a blonde cause: "blondes are dumb" *insert rolling eyes emoji*

Ok submitted by Clown81 on July 5, 2022, 11:56pm Ok movie.

could've been amazing submitted by jennycai on July 9, 2022, 12:53am should've followed the book

If you haven't read the books this movie would have been great submitted by sumisood on July 25, 2023, 10:59pm It barely follows what happens in the books

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LANGUAGE OPTIONS
English (5.1 Dolby Digital, 5.1 descriptive audio (audio description for the visually impaired)), dubbed French (Dolby surround) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby surround) dialogue, English SDH or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

PUBLISHED
Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Rated: PG
Format: DVD

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Columbus, Chris.
Titley, Craig.
Rosenfelt, Karen.
Lerman, Logan, 1992-
Jackson, Brandon T., 1984-
Daddario, Alexandra, 1986-
Abel, Jake, 1987-
Bean, Sean.
Brosnan, Pierce.
Coogan, Steve.
Dawson, Rosario.
Kanakaredes, Melina.
Keener, Catherine.
Pantoliano, Joe.
McKidd, Kevin.
Thurman, Uma.
Riordan, Rick.
Fox 2000 Pictures.
Dune Entertainment.
1492 Pictures.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

SUBJECTS
Jackson, Percy (Fictitious character)
Teenagers -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
Zeus (Greek deity) -- Drama.
Gods, Greek -- Drama.
Malicious accusation -- Drama.
Fantasy films.
Action and adventure films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Feature films.
Fiction films.