The ceiling for magical cars apparently stops at "public transportation that does a spatial trick." In Harry Potter, it was a flying car and then a compactable double-decker bus. In Percy Jackson, we get a busted taxi that magically splits in half while going at suicidal speeds to gain an advantage that we assume must exist but cannot begin to be explained.
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There's Even a Transformer (Transformers, Hellboy II)
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Because mythological creatures and teenagers with godlike powers apparently aren't impressive enough, Percy Jackson tosses us a shape-shifting robot (a golden one, of course -- it is magic, after all). The filmmakers are clearly filching from every PG-13 blockbuster from the past decade. They might as well throw in a kraken while they're at it.
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There's a Goddamn Kraken (Clash of the Titans, Pirates of the Caribbean)
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The kraken has appeared in more movies over the past nine years than Clint Eastwood, and the Percy Jackson version manages to rip off Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 by combining a cataclysmic whirlpool with a tooth monster. While no one in the trailer actually says the word "kraken," we're staring into the gaping mouth of a sea monster in a movie about Olympian gods. It would almost be worse if it wasn't the kraken, and just some cheap knockoff like "the graken" or "the cracken" or "Squid-ules" (like Hercules, only in the ocean). Also, while we can't tell for certain from the trailer, we're going to assume that monster is made of gold.
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