Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief Mythology & the modern world collide in this epic quest for justice by Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) your basic below-average misfit student whose family life is a mess & who&s misunderstood by everyone except his best friend Grover (Brandon T Jackson) A voice warns that everything is about to change as Percy enters the New Roman & Greek Art Gallery on a school field trip & indeed it does Percy&s substitute teacher morphs into a mythical beast & tries to attack him & it&s revealed that Percy is the son of Poseidon & a true demigod Percy also discovers that Grover is really a satyr--half-human half-goat--and his sworn protector & that one of his teachers is a centaur--half-horse half-man--who&s more committed to Percy&s education than he could ever have imagined On top of it all Percy is the prime suspect in the recent theft of Zeus&s lightning bolt & is being hunted by the gods Following these shocking revelations Percy is taken to a special training camp to learn to control & use his exceptional powers & in the process his mother is imprisoned by Hades Against all advice Percy his protector Grover & Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario) daughter of Athena leave camp to rescue Percy&s mother from the underworld Eragon While it owes much of its appeal & appearance to The Lord of the Rings trilogy Eragon can stand on its own as an enjoyable fantasy for younger viewers Faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by teenage author Christopher Paolini this boy-&-his-dragon tale offers clean fast-paced family entertainment without compromising the darker qualities of Paolini&s novel (the first in what is known as the " Inheritance" trilogy) The plot centres on 17-year-old peasant farmboy Eragon (played by appealing newcomer Ed Speleers) who discovers a mysterious blue object that turns out to be an egg that eventually hatches to reveal Saphira a blue-scaled dragon that quickly grows to full-size According to prophecy Eragon is destined to be a dragon-rider like those who once protected a benevolent kingdom thus reviving an ancient conflict against the army of King Galbatorix (John Malkovich) a former dragon rider who turned to evil now in alliance with a dark-magic " Shade" sorcerer named Durza (Robert Carlyle)