First Time Ever Watching PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: The Lightning Thief Movie Reaction!

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief MOVIE REACTION! Today I'll be watching a film I have never seen before Percy Jackson released in 2010 for the first time. Watch the ENTIRE Movie with me? Check out: / timotheereacts
Always trouble-prone, the life of teenager Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) gets a lot more complicated when he learns he's the son of the Greek god Poseidon. At a training ground for the children of deities, Percy learns to harness his divine powers and prepare for the adventure of a lifetime: he must prevent a feud among the Olympians from erupting into a devastating war on Earth, and rescue his mother from the clutches of Hades, god of the underworld.
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[@Der0310]

Actually Percy is a nickname for the main character, his legal name is Perseus Jackson

[@Peacemaker2024-A9T]

People say this movie sucked but i watched it a lot when i was a kid, and i enjoyed it!

[@matityaloran9157]

As a movie, it’s decent but as an adaptation of the book, it’s not

[@Mist_Hashira_Muichiro]

to me, as a reader of the books, these movies don't perfectly capture the essence of the books but they do somewhat well at least & are way better than that insulting abomination on disney +, the person they chose for it doesn't even look like the Percy Jackson from the books. anyways good choice reacting to this Tim, i hope you will react to it's sequel, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters as well

[@Golems_victory]

This is a good movie. Man I feel old XD I love the incorporation of the Greek mythology with comedy XD it’s awesome 😎 🔥

[@matityaloran9157]

11:42, yeah, that part was also in the book

[@elindayana8174]

Can you react to "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron"? It's a story about a strong, beautiful horse with a spirit that can never be broken. I cry every time i watch it! It's a INCREDIBLE film, and the songs are so cool! But it's not a musical and the animals can't talk. 😭💔🔥

[@jamesstutz6907]

Also the animated series as well.

[@PrettyMuchIt]

this movie's not terrible... but get ready for the next one oh boy

[@jamesplunkett8912]

I remember when this movie came out, and I was excited 😊 to see it. And I read the books of Percy Jackson from time to time. I had to reread the books recently since the series was coming on to Disney plus ➕️.

[@matityaloran9157]

27:53, and if you’re familiar with Homer’s Odyssey then you know that the word Lotus being there is really bad news

[@heathcoram3728]

Camp Half-Blood scenes at Minaty Bay, a city on the shores of Howe Sound in British Columbia

[@monsterking1973]

The movie is not bad but definitely check out the show if you haven’t already

[@stevenriggins8260]

This movie wasn’t that bad tbf it could’ve been better tho the only casting choice that I absolutely hated was grover in the book grover was shy and insecure about his ability to protect percy since he had failed to protect half bloods in the past so for him to all that bravado and cockiness for his character it made no sense 😅

[@a.g.demada5263]

Oh, je me rappelle que la première fois que j'ai vu ce film, c'était le jour où une amie (qui ne l'est plus suite à sa trahison) m'avait invitée chez elle pour me remonter le moral suite à la mort de ma grand-mère. Étant passionnée de mythologie grecque, par mon autisme, j'ai adoré toutes les références aux mythes connus (exemple : les fleurs de lotus sont issues du mythe de " l'Odyssée ". Concernant Méduse, l'histoire est que Poséidon l'a " embrassée " (si tu vois ce que je veux dire) dans le temple d'Athéna qui s'est vengée sur elle. Pour ce qui est d'utiliser le téléphone pour pouvoir la regarder, c'est la méthode utilisée par Persée pour la tuer, sauf que lui, Athéna lui avait prêté son bouclier. Et je vais devoir casser ton délire de romance entre Percy et Annabeth. Ils sont en quelque sorte apparentés car Poséidon et Athéna sont respectivement oncle et nièce. Cependant, Athéna est censée être l'une des trois déesses vierges de l'Olympe (les deux autres sont Artémis, la déesse de la chasse, et Hestia, la déesse du foyer) donc je me demande comment elle a pu avoir des enfants malgré ça

[@matityaloran9157]

2:44, it’s not him, he was framed

[@matityaloran9157]

3:49, it’s all Greek to me

[@joshparsons4121]

Timothy you should see hercules with Lou ferrigno. In my opinion one of the best hercules movies

[@mageeaaron2624]

26:39 Hail Hydra! 👀

[@sebastiancalle8892]

Watch Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'Hoole; please.

[@Rimma120]

I like your reaction 👍👍👍

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

Awesome 😎 movie

[@IconicEnemy]

7:05 You did not say that

[@melissaisloud7404]

You should watch the series. I just finished it last week, and it was a fairly good adaptation. Much better than the films just bc there’s longer to tell the tale and the kids are younger like in the books.

[@mageeaaron2624]

5:40 👀

[@heathcoram3728]

why did they have maserati at the lotus casino

[@thatonkgau5221]

In both the books and actual greek mythology Hades isn't evil and he doesn't want to take over Olympus. He's actually the most decent of the gods, helping out young demigod heroes, managing the underworld and being faithful to his wife which is rare for the gods. And another fact in the original mythology Poisedon forced himself on Medusa (who was a priestus of Athena)at Athena's holy temple and Athena cursed Medusa out of spite and jealousy.

[@a.g.demada5263]

Yes, the only bad thing Hadès did was kidnapped Persephone

[@videohistory722]

​@@a.g.demada5263no, she fell into the underworld, decided she liked it, and wanted to stay

[@videohistory722]

I thought the curse was so Medusa could defend herself

[@a.g.demada5263]

@@videohistory722 nope, he used a flower as a bait and when she bent down to pick it up, the ground opened up and Hades grabbed her and took her with him. Greek mythology was one of my specific interests when I was a teen girl, due to my autism, so I know what I said

[@abyss7688]

No that was Ovid's myth. In the original myth, Poseidon never forced himself on her nor did Athena curse her. She was born a Gorgon.

[@TheCkent100]

Nice reaction. You missed the post-credit scene. Percy locked his mother's fridge and put up signs saying "Do not open". Gabe, of course refused to be "bossed around" by his step-son, so he cut the lock and opened the fridge, only to be confronted by Medusa. As the scene fades out, you can hear the sound of Gabe turning to stone.

[@SpacialRend7]

Saw this novel-based film on the big screen way back when and I thought it was fun. Inconsistent with the book, yes, but I still enjoyed it (more so than the recent Disney+ version, I may add).

[@jalenjennings9255]

Best part might be grover with his 🐐legs dancin😂😂😂

[@KERRYPIKE]

This fact that Medusa is in this movie, is the best part.

[@GunnarBarker]

Especially since she’s played by Uma Thurman.

[@benjaminalvear7632]

React a pokemon detective pikachu movie

[@matityaloran9157]

20:29, in Greek mythology, Perseus looks at Medusa’s reflection in his shield without being turned to stone and then cuts her head off. That’s how they know

[@matityaloran9157]

5:22, it’s even less subtle in the book where Percy’s legal name actually is Perseus (though it’s explained that his mother wanted to name him after the rare Greek hero with a happy ending.)

[@DanGamingFan2406]

It's actually hilarious how much the author of the books hates this movie. He once said "It's like having your life's work go through a meat grinder." Fortunately, the new series is a lot better and more faithful.

[@tomasstargamer6308]

The series is a boring drag with nothing interesting happening.

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

Agree it actually felt based of a book

[@tomasstargamer6308]

@@fantasy-writer-v5z Indeed, it had heaps of exposition dumping and barely any action, just talking.

[@BrianZatzke]

@@tomasstargamer6308 You’d think having a show format instead of a limited movie runtime, they’d have more show, don’t tell. 😂

[@tomasstargamer6308]

@@BrianZatzke Indeed, biggest issue of the show, everything is told in long exposition, to then cut off to the trio... and then give more expo.

[@matityaloran9157]

28:28, it’s a reference to the Odyssey. Odysseus’s men eat the Lotus plants on the Island of the Lotus Eaters and then become extremely happy while also not caring about anything but Odysseus (who just spent ten years away from his wife and son and wants to get back to them) pulls his men out of the island (over their objections) and continues the journey

[@dcemerald70]

I actually watched the movies before I read the books. I do agree that the books are a whole lot better and more detailed than these movies were. The movies were more of a guilty pleasure so they’re OK when you’re not comparing them to the books. However the series is on par with the books and I highly recommend you check it out. There is a stage musical The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical that’s also worth checking out as well; you can find a video of it on KZbin of the full production. 💙🔱🐚🌊

[@sebastiantrias1529]

Nice reaction, even though the books series is better, I think the first one was an OK film.

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

And what of the Disney+ series

[@pricemoore2022]

Awesome reaction of my favorite Percy Jackson movie!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@matityaloran9157]

35:21, the better question is “how did you do that?” to which the answer is, in the book he broke into the Underworld and stole the Helm of Darkness from Hades so he could become invisible even to gods and then stole the lightning bolt from Zeus to start a war but was stopped by Ares who decided to go along with the plan since (as the god of war) that’s what he wanted while Luke secretly enchanted the flying shoes he gave Percy to drag him down to Tartarus so that Kronos could escape and murder all the Olympians but Percy gave the shoes to Grover since Percy’s afraid of flying and as a result Luke’s plan didn’t work

[@henrylai7646]

great

[@jamesstutz6907]

Love Percy Jackson read the 1st book. In the book Camp Half-blood is more like a summer camp than a training camp. Besides Percy is supposed to be 12 years old not 16 years old.

[@matityaloran9157]

@TimothéeReacts, the movie’s decent if you ignore the book and just enjoy the movie for what it is but I have a hard time doing that in two scenes 1) where Grover stays in the Underworld to save Percy (I liked it better in the book when it was Percy’s mother who did that) and 2) Luke’s plan doesn’t really make sense here but it does in the book

[@itsyaboijordan415]

It's not a great movie but I'd be lying if I said this what got me into reading Percy Jackson

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

This movie is ten times better than the Disney plus version 😊

[@daurydavis3983]

Especially the lotus scene

[@a.g.demada5263]

​@@daurydavis3983 really ? I saw only the movies

[@Rimma120]

Actor who played Luke,(Jake Abel)also played in movies The Host and I'm number four

[@elindayana8174]

I don't like this movie. 😞

[@Ts-lz1gj]

Yea the movie is definitely good, it's what got me into the books. I do think that the movie is more likable than the show in my opinion and here’s why: the actor Logan looks and has the exact personality as Percy’s character in the book. He was just older. Alexandra in the movie did actually play Annabeth well because she showed she was a wise girl and not just bossy. They showed the gods were both appearing as human and were god-like. Just as they do in the book buying showing aura or something or a display with their power like ares shows his power his eyes glowing red or fueling someone’s anger when talking to him. The show didn’t really show that for the gods. The show has a more casual depiction of the series while the movie is more serious. And the movie was good at showing how tragic the demigods' lives were because they showed the physical and the emotional abuse of Gabe. That’s exactly how he was in the book. He even hit Percy’s mom at some point. Sally just took it and was always sweet to protect her son. In the show Gabe is just a lazy stepdad who didn’t really care. The pacing is better in the movie and so is the build up. The show was not very good at doing that. Yes the show has more scenes from the book that makes it somewhat more accurate, however the way they depicted all the scenes in the show weren’t entirely accurate. For example, going to the lotus hotel in the book was a chance for them to make all their dreams come true and to live a life where they get to act like normal kids. They were depicted well in the movie and not in the series. Mostly they were rushed because it's a show and it's 30 to 40 minutes long each episode. However, the first Harry Potter book was basically as long as the first Percy Jackson book. And they included everything from the first Harry Potter book in the first movie. And the movie was 1 to 2 hours long and they never missed an emotional scene or accuracy of a Scene from the book. And they included every scene. The Percy Jackson series if you add all the episodes up by their time it's at least 5 hours long. So they actually would have found some sort of way to include everything including build ups, displays of power, and emotional impacting scenes. Like the series tin man made in 2007 had only 3 episodes but each one was an hour and 33 minutes. long. It all added up to 4 hrs 28 minutes long. They included a lot of emotional scenes, build up, and good pacing. And it felt like you were watching 2 seasons of a show. They could’ve done the same thing with the Percy Jackson series. I feel like the movie has certain attributes of the book that the show doesn’t and the show has certain attributes of the book that the show doesn’t. I think they both need to combine.

[@matityaloran9157]

34:23, this is where it’s get harder for me to ignore the book and enjoy the movie for what it is. In the book, the Minotaur killed Sally but a prophecy told Percy that he’d go to the Underworld in search of his mother and the bolt (which Percy believed Hades stole) while being betrayed by a friend but in what matters most he would fail. When Percy makes it to the Underworld, both Grover and Annabeth are willing to stay behind so Sally can leave but Percy refuses to allow a friend to die for him and instead suggests himself but his mother refuses to allow that so Percy leaves the Underworld without Sally and realizes he failed in what matters most. I like that version a lot better than this one.

[@matityaloran9157]

31:43, okay, Persephone’s presence in this movie doesn’t really make sense. As the goddess of spring and rebirth she spends her winters in the Underworld with Hades but re-emerges in the spring and lives with her mother Demeter in summer. So she wouldn’t be in the Underworld before the summer solstice

[@matityaloran9157]

16:11, in the book, she’s the Underworld because she’s dead and it’s the Greek afterlife

[@yeseniamartinez2166]

I feel like ppl hated this movie so much because they kept comparing it to the book. I feel like if it was by itself and had nothing to compare it to ppl would have enjoyed more

[@matityaloran9157]

36:03, Luke’s plan makes a lot more sense in the book where he’s in league with Zeus’s overthrown father Kronos who wants to be in power again since Kronos is an immortal god of Time

[@matityaloran9157]

22:08, the myths are inconsistent but in one of them Perseus turns Atlas into a giant mountain by showing Medusa’s head

[@briannayoung5412]

Ngl the only reason I watched this movie is, because of Rosario Dawson ❤

[@kimByhurst-px1zd]

Yes thank you Tim love this film cheesy but love it. Thank you from UK all ❤️ pleas consider sequel pls 😁😁

[@tyrekager5334]

I don't care what any one says this is favorite movie

[@abc.animal5143]

Completely butchered the books

[@wisdomplaysbtd6144]

I love this movie

[@BetoZayasGaoking]

Love this movie

[@justindenney-hall5875]

I just watched an interesting movie, a forgotten live action Disney produced superhero comedy called "Condorman" (1981).

[@jamesstutz6907]

I watched the movie a few times and it is very funny. Love that opening sequence.

[@АленаТайбазарова]

Гарри Поттер ОЛИМПИЙСКИЙ 🤔 И режиссер Крис Коламбус. Гарри, Рон и Гермиона есть. Кстати выйшел сериал от ДИСНЕЯ ПЕРСИ ДЖЕКСОН и ОЛИМПИЙЦЫ Первый сезон я посмотрела Хороший молодые актеры играют совсем не плохо Надеюсь на этот раз все книги экранизируют

[@kdparchives3395]

I'll give credit where credit's due - as bad as these movies were, they did introduce me to the books they were based on ^_^;

[@thatonkgau5221]

In the books it explained that Zeus, Poisedon and Hades (the big three) made an oath not to have anymore children because a prophecy said one of their children would destroy Olympus. Zeus and Poseidon IMMEDIATELY broke the oath and had basterd children being the biggest horn dogs of the gods. Grover, Annabeth and the other camper's didn't know Percy was the son of a Poseidon until he claimed Percy. And Everyone thought Percy was the son of Zeus since most demigods were are and Zeus is a banged every woman he saw.

[@rebeccamichael626]

Poseidon had two.

[@Der0310]

@@rebeccamichael626 No, Posiedon only had Percy, if you talking about Tyson, a lot of cyclops are Poseidon´s children, not only him, but the prophecy talked about a half-blood, half human half god

[@MaximeLafreniere433]

This one is a weird case... Is it a good movie? Yeah... It has it's flaws, but it's more than enjoyable. Is it a good book to movie adaptation? Nope, far from it. Take it from someone who read them all 5 10 times. This is barely similar to the source material. Rick Riordan (the author) really expressed how much he didn't like what they were doing with his creations, starting with making it a "teenager" movie, Percy is supposed to be 12 in this. And yet the second movie was even worse for that, I'm actually convinced that because of what they did and did not do in the first 2 movies (characters missing, major events missing, objects not working properly), they couldn't even try to make the third, even less the other 2. Oh and even the source material of the source material (the mythology) was butchered too. Honestly, if I had read the novels before I saw the movies, I would probably have hated them. Even though I'm happy I was introduced to it all trough the movies, I'm really glad they didn't go further. The new series that came out though, now we're talking! It may not be totally accurate, but it's so much better!

[@Miel_Realmz]

When I found out it was inaccurate to the books, I started to dislike it but after seeing that it's still somewhat good and the idea that the books, the movie, the musical and the show can just multiple universes I'm like "Ehhh, I guess looking at it like that is much better than being a hater", also I do reccomend you see the show because it's still so shocking and especially one specific scene of Luke, Annabeth and Percy that I also think you would like. So hope you get to watch. You do you, man👍

[@tiago9977]

I loved the Percy Jackson films tbh. I know they weren't popular with the author & book fans, but I thought they were great.

[@matityaloran9157]

41:14, spoilers. He’s alive. The sequel (spoilers) seemingly kills him but assuming loyalty to the books (spoilers) he survives until the last one and is one of the two main antagonists of the series

[@sockygaldamez9492]

I didn’t mind the first movie when it came out out like I thought it was alright like I didn’t think it was was awesome but ok but I understand why a lot of people hate it because it isn’t keeping in contrast with the book because I did read the book and there are a lot of things missing and not right. But I did watch the show and I got say it’s whole lot better 😊😁😃❤️

[@christianortiz-v1l]

I really suggest you watch this horror movie called Unfriended released in 2014

[@sebastiancalle8892]

As a 9 years old kid, I loved this movie. Now as a 22 years old man (23 in March 19th) I hate this movie and love the books. But that doesn't mean that I would see the Tv Show.

[@killuanatsume]

You should read the books. They are better. Also there is a big difference in the first book Percy was 12 in the movie I think he is 16 or 17.

[@DanSolo0119]

Was hoping to see your reaction to the mid-credit scene.

[@a.g.demada5263]

There's a mid-credit scene ????

[@DanSolo0119]

@@a.g.demada5263 Yeah. Check it out. You'll be thinking "Couldn't have happened to a nicer person."

[@DanielDeLeon69]

I Like Watching This Movie 😊

[@matityaloran9157]

30:40, I’m pretty sure that’s a reference to Dante’s Inferno

[@matityaloran9157]

7:35, that exchange basically did happen in the book

[@K_edits-d1w]

🌺I love this movie and my cousin hates it she 🌺

[@matityaloran9157]

17:26, and Hermes is also the god of thieves

[@Logan-lf8pd]

Damn it, Read The Books!

[@EmoryGreen-q6s]

I recommend the tv show

[@damaniqphillip2756]

Awesome ❤❤

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

The Disney+ series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is better, definitely more true to the book so I heard

[@oliviarogers2808]

It's also much more boring.

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

@@oliviarogers2808 wait the movie or the Disney+ series

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

@@oliviarogers2808 are you taking about the movie or Disney+ series

[@tomasstargamer6308]

Not that much more "true", it made a lot of changes too, most for the worse, plus is just more boring.

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

The movie is ten times better than the show

[@haybaleanimations2758]

Day 188 of me requesting a reaction to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

[@tomasstargamer6308]

Ah this movie's a classic for me and my intro to Percy Jackson, it changes a lot from the book? Yes, but it's a FUN time unlike this new good for nothing TV show, Rick the author talked so much shit about this movie then proceeded to make something worse.

[@mageeaaron2624]

25:31 👀

[@BrianZatzke]

I really liked this movie when it came out. This is before I read the books. Even though it doesn’t fully follow the book, it’s still SO much fun to watch. And it feels like an adventure.

[@VampireHunter]

This was one of my childhood favorite movies and watched it a lot as a kid since Greek Mythology was one of my favorite topics, but that was before I read the books. After reading the books I saw all the inaccuracy and inconsistencies in the movie. Movie in itself was great still, just not entirely book accurate. The new series on Disney+ tho was so much more book plot accurate despite having creative changes. Definitely worth the watch.

[@Brianpcomstock]

It’s “more accurate” but it’s not as fun. Pretty dull overall but has it moments for sure!

[@Sam-fp2qh]

This movie is not only disrespectful to the source material, but it's also just plain insulting to the fans of the books and the series as a whole. This movie completely ruins the whole plot, premise, and characters that we grew to love in the books. Luke's reveal in the final chapter of the book is clever, heart-wrenching and very suspenseful. The way they revealed in the movie was they have him be suspicious and obvious right out the gate. This movie also completely ruined Hade. In the book he was a fake out villain, and quite a trick tragic character. But in this garbage dump of a movie they make Hades the main villain when it makes no sense for him to be the main villain at all, both in the context of this story and in greek mythology in general, While completely skipping over the actual villain of the first book Aries and the main villain of the overarching story of the whole series, Kronos. Not to mention the writing as a whole is just terrible. Characters say lines that they would never you're saying in the, They act like they never would in the, And just by casting older people rather than children specifically twelve-year-olds it completely destroyed the message and theme of the entire series. The author of the books, Rick Riordan,wrote Percy Jackson as a bedtime story for his son who has both dyslexia and ADHD.

[@totomomo18]

Great movie tough it is a bit silly it is much better than the Harry Potter movies in my opnion.

[@fantasy-writer-v5z]

How

[@totomomo18]

@@fantasy-writer-v5z Well for one thing unlike Harry Potter Percy Jackson is not a useless boring wimp.

[@berengustav7714]

​@totomomo18 Harry is not useless and he has personality traits,then the movies cut out many parts if him,Daniel deserved better.