Well I think this movie suffered from the Harry Potter effect. I think Chris was so raptured by the special effects that he forgot about the story that made these books so famous. I for one am A HUGE Percy Jackson fan. And I was so delighted when I learned Chris was going to direct this. I mean to this day my favorite HP movie is Sorcerer's Stone. It was pure magic and it was awesome and I expected the same from Percy Jackson.

First off he totally changed the book. I mean I never would have recognized the movie if it weren't for the title. And he didn't have to do that. Fans of the book and certainly HP fans would have sat through a 2 1/2 hour movie!

And then he put Percy in his teens when in the book he was the same age as Harry when he started at Hogwarts and he lost some of that innocent magic I would have loved to have seen from a kid being shoved into a grown up's world. Just like we loved in the books.

This just fell flat for me and I'm glad that they ended the movie cutting it off as to not make any more of them, because if they screwed up all the other books I would be boiling hot.

I hate when movies ruin good books and sadly Chris ruined Percy Jackson with he heavy handed Harry Potterisms and too many special effects.