It is okay when a film takes liberties with the book from which it is being adapted but it is definitely not okay when doing it actually makes the movie worse. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, based on the book Percy Jackson And the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan, though better than its predecessor Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief (which got almost nothing right!), is still an epic fail for fans who swear by the book. This film has its moments and the actors seem to have become more comfortable in their characters. I really didn’t mind Logan Lerman playing Percy, and that’s saying a lot, and some of the action sequences were fun. A low-down.

• It’s okay that Tyson the Cyclops meets his half-brother Percy in a different scenario from that in the book. But Tyson walking into Camp Half-Blood by himself? He is not a demigod or a god; he is a Cyclops. He can’t get past the magical barrier that protects the camp. So not cool!

• In the book, Chiron the centaur was banished from the camp after being blamed for poisoning Thalia’s Tree that guards the camp. And with good reason: he was Kronos’s son after all. But in the film, he is not blamed for the poisoning. Given that he isn’t there in half the movie anyway, why not stick to the book?

• Annabeth Chase is a spunky girl, not someone who plays second fiddle to Percy. I resent the misrepresentation in the movie.

• I am glad that the film tempered Clarisse La Rue’s obnoxiousness so that you didn’t want to slap her all the time. In fact, Clarisse is one of the best things about the film.

• Tyson is sweet, he is cute, he is a little slow (he is a Cyclops after all) but he is not dumb like he is shown to be! #dislike

• I am unhappy that the film does away with many fantastic action sequences. Where’s the fight with the Hydra, with the Laestrygonians, the Dracanae? Why is Circe given a miss?

• Percy is supposed to be a master swordsman, the only one good enough to match the evil Luke. But the battle between Luke and Percy is tame and so short that you blink and you miss. #fail

• Luke raises Kronos from Tartarus. Yes, I know. Never happened. Not in this book, not in the series! Wait, that’s not all. Percy sends him back to where he came from, using his celestial bronze sword! Please, it took three of the most powerful gods of Olympus to destroy him in the first place but a demigod with just a year’s training flicks his blade and Kronos goes poof?!

• Oh, and Thalia Grace, the daughter of Zeus, looks like Michael Jackson! Yes, by this time I was feeling very unkindly towards the film. #notsorry