Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: There’s an explanation of how it is that the Greek Gods Zeus and Poseidon meet up in present day New York City in their human forms on the top floor of the Empire State Building in what doubles as Mount Olympus. The argument lies in what wheelchair bound Mr. Brunner (Pierce Brosnan) says to high school student Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) during a museum field trip. Percy is told that in Greek times, Gods sometimes came down to Earth to mate with mortals. This would make their offspring, “demigods.” At that point, Zeus passed the law that any God who hooks up with a mortal will have nothing to do with their child. To this day, the Greek Gods still come down to Earth in human form to check up on their offspring.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is the latest in a series of young adult books written by Rick Riordan that like, the Harry Potter epics, are meant to appeal to young kids and perhaps adults. For adults like myself, I just sat back and enjoyed the brief appearances of the older actors turning into renditions of Gods, Goddesses and other members of Greek lore that include Brosnan as a centaur and Uma Thurman as a modern day Medusa with living snakes for hair.
