It seems far too early in Lerman's career for a paycheck film to enter the picture.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

Younger audiences may still find themselves entertained by Sea of Monsters, but by slowing down the pace and having some faith in its actors, it could have been so much more.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2019

Unfortunately, Monsters is relentlessly derivative and a watered-down sci-fi saga that the tweens and teens will tune out with all the nonchalant gesture of popping a stubborn pimple on their faces.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2018

A slight but fun romp through Greek mythology with a modern twist...Grown-ups will hate it, but tween-age kids will have a blast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2017

CG spectacle trumps character but, as engineered market-fillers go, it's at least cheerfully cheap and not unlikeable: a Poundland Potter, as it were.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017

For the majority of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the titular character spends his time moping over the uncertainty of his heroism.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 29, 2016

A kitsch-fest; a kit-and-caboodle thematic ransacking sellout, geared to drain your kiddie dollars. Like a city dump, you can find anything in there-but would you want to?

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 18, 2016

It's still a fun adventure for tweens and early teens, but Percy and co are just going through the motions rather than stepping up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2016

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is a good special effects family movie that's every bit as accomplished as The Lightning Thief and possibly better-even if it doesn't follow the Rick Riordan juvenile fantasy novels like a road map.

| Original Score: B | Mar 30, 2016

...impressively fares almost as well as its above-average predecessor...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2014

the film might have been more charming with Ray Harryhausen effects than with CGI

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 12, 2014

With sequels of this type, we tend to see the stakes raised and the action increased to even more exciting levels than before, but for "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters," things are pretty much the same, but somehow made even blander than before.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 17, 2013

There is plenty of action, the acting is good and the story is good enough to get by. It is not a bad film. It is about like the first film in the series.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 17, 2013

A fine follow-up to the first film in the franchise. The series doesn't regress, but it doesn't improve much either.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2013

More pretty good, if forgettable FX-driven franchise fodder...proficiently directed...also features the ever-surprising Stanley Tucci, who sports the latest in a long line of formidable movie wigs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2013

If PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF gave a studio hope enough to jumpstart this franchise then PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS ensures that it 'sleeps with the fishes.'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2013

The thin, silly story stretched into a showcase for visual and special effects left me even colder than the cinema (VMax 2, Event, Sydney)

| Sep 15, 2013

The vivid fantasy visuals provide wonderful imagery in this sequel about demi-gods and their quests, although to its detriment, the film is plot heavy and lacking in its emotional arc. It is pretty silly, too

| Sep 15, 2013

These are broad pulp action scenarios that feel sweet, well-worn, and kind of timeless.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 13, 2013

Only the brightest colors of the Crayola box are used, whether to sketch out the characters' motivations or illuminate the cartoony visual effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2013