Brandon T. Jackson

Logan Lerman: Acting’s the hobby...But the art is in filmmaking...My goal in life is to be a good filmmaker.

An enjoyable PG-rated family adventure in its own right, but Columbus' film can't live up to the Potter gold standard, and it strays enough from Riordan's source material to make its tween readership blow a gasket every few minutes.

Yes, Percy faces his Charybdis, but...Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters not surprisingly feels more dutiful than creatively energized.