Kids persuaded me to take them to this, despite my not having seen the first in the series. But I think I picked up its gist quickly enough: it's PerCGI Jackson: CGI of Monsters. Jackson, half-mortal son of PoCGIdon, lives with his pals, all of whom look like fashion models, at Camp Half Blood. They are protected by a CGI forcefield generated by a magic tree. TreeGI, if you will. Anyway, for arbitrary plot reasons he and his friends must embark on a dangerous quest for the Golden Fleece-GI. They must swim the CGI of Monsters to reach CirCGI's Island, where ... CGI is ... there's ...
Look: there's a lot of CGI in this film.
Yes. Anyway, if you like gawping at CGI sea monsters, CGI bull-monsters, giant CGI cyclops monsters, CGI half-hyena-half-giant-scorpion monsters and so on, then you'll love this. It is perfectly competently made. Other notes: (1) the director is LITERALLY called Thor! How mythological is that? (2) Everybody in this film pronounces the word 'satyr' as 'say "tier"', which distracted me; (3) Chiron is Giles from Buffy from the waist up, but -- if the complete lack of swinging equine wedding-tackle on screen be any guide -- a mare from the waist down. I choose to read this as a pro-Trans-rights statement on the behalf of the film-makers, and not mere 'no-horse-dong-allowed' prudery.
On the upside: my youngest is five. This means in a decade or so he can go to the movies on his own, and I might get to see a proper movie without having to wait year or more for it to appear in my front room on Sky Movies.
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