Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Reviews

Supporting actors Stanley Tucci and Nathan Fillion have a good punch line or two, but otherwise the book's humor fails to translate with both kids and their parents.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

There's very little fun to be had watching a kids' flick so aware of its own mortality.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Young movie fans will likely find enjoyment in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters but the film is a step down for the franchise in nearly every single way imaginable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Didn't we get past this type of CGI in the mid-90's??

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

There is a better film about gods and monsters: it's called Gods and Monsters.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

If PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF gave a studio hope enough to jumpstart this franchise then PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS ensures that it 'sleeps with the fishes.'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Elaborate backstories have more meaning when the characters are known and loved; Percy Jackson's endless exposition only demonstrates why he's nobody's favourite boy-wizard.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Scrappy and kind-hearted, with odd flashes of high camp - even if its universe of patchworked Greek mythological elements still makes little sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Before it descends into Percy Jackson and the Things That Happen in Movies Like This, the adventure at times clicks into the inventive groove of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson novels ...

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I'll tell you what's insane: the probability that folks will go easy on this dreck because it's aimed at younger viewers, who are being distressingly trained to expect little from their art.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

Characters don't so much have conversations as read Dungeons & Dragons manuals at each other. The whole thing feels like exposition in search of a story.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

There are isolated moments of fun to be had in Sea of Monsters, and standout supporting players make the paint-by-numbers quest story easier to stomach.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If nothing else his film stands out for its quaint scale in a summer of gigantic blockbusters, but that lack of size isn't enough to warrant a watch.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

This is a thoroughly second-rate franchise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

More of the same, no better and not much worse than the first film, though adding Tucci and Fillion pays off with laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

There isn't even an actual sea of monsters in "Sea of Monsters," unless you count some fish guts.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The stakes in this latest, disappointing Harry Potter wannabe never feel as high as they should, or as important as its characters seem to think they are.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The director never establishing a workable tone to carry a viewer through the CG effects and too many characters and monsters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3

The humor and attention to character detail that made the first Percy appealing gets sidelined here in the effort to dazzle us with one action scene after another. And, for the reasons noted above, they're not dazzling enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

You might think it would be endlessly awesome being the offspring of an Olympian god, but it seems like kind of a drag, really, for young Percy Jackson.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4