User blog comment:Yoshimonk99/ANNABETH SHOULD HAVE BLONDE HAIR/@comment-112.205.89.142-20100308120333

I really didn't mind that Annabeth didn't have blond hair in the movie. I mean, if the hair color played such an integral role in the story then I'd be mad but it's just hair color, right? I say if the girl can play Annabeth well enough, why not? Though I just watched the movie and she seems more like an Ares than an Athena for some reason :P

As for black Grover, it's kind of a staple for aspiring visual franchises - you're always supposed to have one non-Caucasian character (the cartoon show Family Guy almost got branded as racist since there were no african americans so they had to introduce Cleveland).

As for the movie, most of the scenes they removed would've been great eye candy (like the greyhound and chimera thing) but they somehow managed to get the point across without them so...it's fine I guess. Then they didn't even mention Kronos and Hades was actually trying to be the bad guy....something is definitely wrong with that director