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Average Critic Score
29%
(Positive: 10/35)
Release Date Feb 12, 2010
Rating PG for action violence and peril, some scary images and suggestive material, and mild language
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review-good
A fantasy adventure that fuses Greek mythology to contemporary American places and values. Anyone around 15 (give or take a couple of years) will thrill to the visual spectacle
Feb 06, 2010 Outside Link
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Slavishly follows every rule of the kids’ fantasy franchise genre, but it’s a well-executed and imagined world. Bet the sequel’s darker.
Feb 09, 2010 Outside Link
review-good
Uma Thurman as Medusa, the gorgon with a coiffure of writhing snakes and stone-inducing hypnotic gaze is one of the highlights of this bewitching fantasy
Feb 06, 2010 Outside Link
review-bad
Mirthless, episodic fantasy saga.
Feb 10, 2010 Outside Link
review-good
With a top-notch cast and dazzling special effects, this will tide the teens over until the next Harry Potter instalment.
Feb 09, 2010 Outside Link
review-bad
The CGI effects are a familiar sort and so is the heroic-quest motif. The principal virtue in this modest entertainment is that the young characters act like real teenagers.
Feb 12, 2010 Outside Link
review-good
Whether audiences will get behind The Lightning Thief is hard to predict. Overall, it's an entertaining introduction to a promising new world -- but will the consuming shadow of Potter be too big to break free of?
Feb 09, 2010 Outside Link
review-bad
May not be so deep or richly imagined as J.K. Rowling's universe of magic and Muggles, but the film is populated by likable characters, great special effects and a neat premise.
Feb 12, 2010 Outside Link
review-good
Director Chris Columbus has fun with this goofy premise, but as always I am distracted by the practical aspects of the story. Does it bother the Greek gods that no one any longer knows or cares that they rule the world? What are the genetic implications of human/god interbreeding?
Feb 11, 2010 Outside Link
review-bad
A diverting action fantasy that modernizes the stories of demigods and monsters.
Feb 12, 2010 Outside Link

Movie Stats

Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Stars Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Ray Winstone
Director Chris Columbus
Writers Craig Titley, Rick Riordan, Chris Columbus
Studio
Review Count 35
Positive 10
Negative 25
Recent 0