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god sometimes i really love the av club:

Surely somewhere out there, there are fans of the first two Harry Potter movies who were bereft when Chris Columbus didn’t go on to direct subsequent entries in the franchise. Those few jilted fans can now line up for their methadone in the form of Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a kids’-book adaptation that follows the J.K. Rowling formula closely enough to ease the pangs of forlorn Harry Potter fans in general.

Like The Spiderwick Chronicles, Bridge To Terabithia, City Of Ember, and other recent CGI-heavy kid-lit film adaptations, Percy Jackson is mostly a reasonable distraction for bored kids, but also a reminder that the source material is almost always more flavorful and fulfilling than derivative work.

could not have put it better myself