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Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
A film review by Bill Gibron
The new Harry Potter wannabe, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, gets so
many things right that when it goes astray (which happens with more and more frequency as it goes
along) you kind of wish it hadn't tried in the first place. Unless your last name is Harryhausen, you
shouldn't really maneuver Greek mythology, and you definitely don't need to use it as a source from
some Shrek-inspired collection of tired pop culture riffs. Yet that's exactly what this Chris Columbus