It could have benefited from having the minor roles played by less known actors - as it is, their appearances tend to detract from the main characters who actually do a good job with the material they have been given. Perhaps the best of these is Steve Coogan playing Hades, but even here you send most of his screen time thinking "oh look, it's Steve Coogan" rather than being drawn into the movie. Uma Thurman, Brosnan, etc., aren't really given the screen time to build a strong character for themselves.
Several big stars feature in cameo roles and for anyone who knows a fair bit about who celebrities are, this tends to distract from the movie. The movie is an enjoyable way to kill a couple of hours, but isn't as engrossing as other movies of this genre. I haven't read the book, so can't judge where the blame lies for this. But the execution of this idea felt very rushed in this movie. The premise of this movie - that Greek gods were real and have offspring in the modern world - is interesting. The people agreed the olive tree was more useful, and therefore named the city "Athens", in honor of Athena. The people realized the tree had many uses: Its fruit for eating, its wood for building and burning, the oil from its fruit for cooking, and for bathing, and the pits of the olives could be planted, therefore bringing up more olive trees. Unfortunately, the water turned out to be too salty, and therefore useless. Poseidon stuck his trident into the ground, and created a spring, from which the townspeople could use the water. Both agreed that they would bestow a gift onto the town, and whichever gift was deemed more useful, that giver would have the town named after him or her. The two choices were Athena and Poseidon, Percy's father. The citizens of the city were arguing over which god, after whom to name the city. The story she tells, is the Greek myth about how the capital city Athens got its name. When in the Parthenon Museum, Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario) begins telling Percy (Logan Lerman) a story about her mother, Athena.
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