Rather than using the prophecy from the Sea of Monsters book, the filmmakers mixed it in with the Great Prophecy from the last several books, making this plot point messy and confusing.
These character changes took away the book’s group dynamic, which is a shame, because the characters are some of the best aspects of this series.Įven people who have never read the books could tell that this film is all over the place. The film’s portrayal of her lacked this depth and labeled her as a go-with-the-flow kind of person who got along easily with the other characters, which is totally unlike the real Clarisse. Book Clarisse is highly determined to complete the quest in order to prove herself to her father Ares, the god of war. While she’s rude and witty in the books, she was just average in the Sea of Monsters film. She also had very few one-on-one scenes with Percy, and their friendship was barely developed in this film.Ĭlarisse’s character was also given the short end of the stick. Many of the book’s scenes where Annabeth comes up with clever ideas were scrapped entirely, such as the chariot race from the beginning, and were replaced with meaningless fight scenes that just pass the time. In the books, she’s a clever and knowledgable daughter of Athena, but in the film her character was reduced to someone who knows little and does little. This removed a lot of the meaning in his character background, as well as his relationship with Annabeth from when they were kids.Īnnabeth, while rightfully blonde in this film, had almost no impact on the story.
Similar to the first film, Grover was shown as an over-confident, party-animal type of character who is mostly used for comedic effect, though in the books he is timid and down to earth. For example, the original Percy cares deeply about his friends, and mostly partakes in quests because he knows it will help him and the other demigods, but the Percy in this film accepted a quest to be competitive against Clarisse, daughter of Ares. Nearly every character had different motivations in this film, and it messed too much with the story as a whole. One of the most obvious issues with this film was that it disregarded most of the character development portrayed in the books.