Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

• Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson, the demigod son of Poseidon.[5]
• Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase, the demigod daughter of Athena, and Percy's secret crush.[5]
  • Alisha Newton portrays the younger Annabeth.
• Douglas Smith as Tyson, Percy's Cyclops half-brother.[6]
• Leven Rambin as Clarisse La Rue, the demigod daughter of Ares.[7]
• Brandon T. Jackson as Grover Underwood, Percy's best friend and keeper, a satyr.[5]
  • Bjorn Yearwood portrays the younger Grover.
• Jake Abel as Luke Castellan, the demigod son of Hermes and the main antagonist.[5]
  • Samuel Braun portrays the younger Luke.
• Paloma Kwiatkowski as Thalia Grace, the demigod daughter of Zeus.[8][9]
  • Katelyn Mager portrays the younger Thalia.
• Grey Damon as Chris Rodriguez, a rogue demigod of unknown parentage who helps Luke to resurrect Kronos.

• Stanley Tucci as Mr. D / Dionysus, the god of wine, celebrations, ecstasy, and theatre and director of Camp Half-Blood.[7] He was previously played by Luke Camilleri in the first film.
• Nathan Fillion as Hermes, Luke's father; the god of trade, thieves, travelers, sports, athletes, and messenger of the gods of Mount Olympus.[10] He was previously played by Dylan Neal in the first film.
  • Octavia Spencer as the voice of Martha, a snake that is in Hermes' caduceus.
  • Craig Robinson as the voice of George, a snake that is in Hermes's caduceus.
• Robert Knepper as the voice of Kronos, the King of the Titans, father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Chiron, and Luke's master.

• Anthony Head as Chiron, the activities director at Camp Half Blood. Chiron is a centaur and the immortal son of Kronos and brother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hestia and Hera.[5] Chiron was previously played by Pierce Brosnan in The Lightning Thief.
• Robert Maillet as Polyphemus
  • Ron Perlman as the voice of Polyphemus
• Hunter Platin as Guard the Cyclops that is guarding the Golden Fleece.[9]
• Shohreh Aghdashloo as the voice of Oracle of Delphi
• Missi Pyle,[9] Yvette Nicole Brown[9] and Mary Birdsong[11] as the Graeae
• Jordan Weller as Ichneutae, the acolyte of Clarisse
• Derek Mears and Aleks Paunovic as Cyclopes.[12]

Logan Lerman on the last day for the shooting of the film.

In February 2011, it was revealed in the online subscription magazine Production Weekly that the film was in production.[22] In another source, the lead cast members from the first movie were expected to return for their roles. Chris Columbus would not be returning as director, though he would be producing the movie together with Karen Rosenfelt (producer of the Twilight movie Breaking Dawn). Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were hired as the scriptwriters.[23] Marc Guggenheim was hired to re-write the screenplay and Alexander and Karaszewski were uncredited. On June 16, 2011, it was announced that Thor Freudenthal would be directing the movie.[24] Shooting began in summer 2012. On October 12, 2011, it was announced that the film would be released on March 26, 2013. On April 6, it was announced that the movie was pushed up to August 7, 2013.[25] On May 31, 2012, it was announced that the movie had been pushed back to August 16, 2013.[26]

On January 13, 2012, a brand new production list was released and stated that filming would take place between April 26, 2012 and July 11, 2012.[27][28] It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, with the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans serving as the filming location for the island of Polyphemus. Filming originally wrapped up in July and then started again in January for reshoots. It was finally wrapped up on January 22, 2013.[29][30]

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 42% based on reviews from 118 critics, with an average rating of 5.20/10. The website's consensus reads, "It's pretty and packed with action; unfortunately, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is also waterlogged with characters and plots that can't help but feel derivative."[33] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 39 based on 33 collected reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[34] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+ on a scale from A+ to F.[35]

Jim Vejvoda of IGN rated the movie a 6 out of 10: "There are worse sequels than the CG-heavy Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, but it's just such overly familiar territory."[36] Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, saying that "tweens and young teens should be sufficiently distracted by the movie's brisk pace and heroic mayhem — if they're not too unnerved by its at times nightmarish imagery".[37] James Rocchi of ScreenCrush wrote that the film "is hardly the stuff of legend, but by keeping the plot straightforward and the storytelling clean, it's an odyssey the intended young audience will be glad to take."[38] Marsha McCreadie on RogerEbert.com rated the film two and a half stars out of four, calling it "a gentler-spirited, less flashy enterprise, though it still presents a natural world that can morph at the whim of a god."[39]

Andy Webster of The New York Times commented: "Sea of Monsters is diverting enough — the director, Thor Freudenthal ... is savvy with effects and keeps his young cast on point — but it doesn’t begin to approach the biting adolescent tension of the Harry Potter movies."[40] However, Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film as "lack[ing] the energetic zip of its predecessor,"[41] while Bruce Ingram of Chicago Sun-Times opined that "faithful fans of the novels will be unhappy with the liberties taken with the adaptation like they were with the first film."[42] Connie Ogle of The Miami Herald wrote, "[Are] these characters merely prisoners — much like the audience — of a script so uninspired that it demands their stupidity?"[43] Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly lambasted the series as a whole as "a thoroughly second-rate franchise ... with movies like Sea of Monsters, it can probably continue in acceptable mediocrity for years to come".[44]

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters grossed $68,559,554 in North America and $133,688,197 internationally for a worldwide total of $202,247,751.

The film grossed $5.4 million on its opening day, taking the number No. 2 spot at the domestic box office.[45] During its extended five-day opening weekend the film debuted at the No. 4 spot and grossed $23,258,113.[46]

Katelyn Mager was nominated for her performance at the 2014 Young Artist Award as Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film.[47]

The character of Percy Jackson was nominated as Favorite Movie Hero at the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards.

On March 25, 2014, Lerman said that a sequel to Sea of Monsters would not be made.[51] However, six days later the report stated "Logan Lerman has said Percy Jackson 3 could still go ahead" and that the previous report "was taken out of context".[52] At the 2015 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Lerman said that while he finds the Percy Jackson films fun to make, he has not heard anything about the production of a third film and expressed concern that he and his co-stars were growing too old for their parts.[53]

On May 14, 2020, a Disney+ show separate from the film franchise was announced on Rick Riordan's Twitter account, where he stated that he and his wife would be involved in the production of the show.[54][55]