Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Eric Brevig
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Actor: Anita Briem, Brendan Fraser, Jean Michel Par?, Josh Hutcherson, Seth MeyersDirector: Eric Brevig
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- Brendan Fraser stars in this action-packed adventure based on the Jules Vern Classic that is sure to deliver fun for the whole family! On a hunch to find the center of the earth, Trevor Anderson (Fraser), his nephew and their tour guide make a breakthrough discovery that launches them on a thrilling journey into the unknown. On a scramble to find their way back, the group travels through a never-b
Movie Reviews of Journey to the Center of the Earth
Movie Review: Good for kids, but not for me
Summary: 2 Stars
received this movie from Netflix last night and was in the mood for a good adventure flick, so I decided to give this movie a try. From the opening scene I started to have this bad feeling in my gut as Trevor Anderson(Brendan Fraser) is having a nightmare about his brother Max running from a very silly looking CG Dinosaur and falling to his death. Still I figured it's just a dream sequence I'm sure the movie won't be as bad as the first minute, so I decided to continue with hope. In the first few scenes we see Trevor is not fairing to well at his job as a volcanologist at a school, infact his office is about to be shut down by some wormy looking guy you just want to hit. When Trevor goes home that evening and listens to his answering machine he is reminded that is thirteen year old nephew Sean(Josh Hutcherson) is coming to stay with him for the next ten days. When Sean's mother drops him off she gives Trevor a box with some of Maxes old stuff including a book Journey To The Center of The Earth.When Trevor opens the book later on he finds notes written by his late brother indicating he might have actually found the center of the earth. After going to his lab to look into it Trevor decided to head to Icland to investigate and brings Sean. So they get to Icland and pick up a guide Hannah(Anita Briem) and after a series of events get stuck underground where they end up in a world inside our own world, the center of the Earth.
So here's my take on this movie. It had it's moments, but they were few and far between. The effects weren't that good in my opinion, maybe if this was a made for TV movie but not up to par for blockbuster movie theater standards in my opinion. Most of the scenes look like they were real people with a moving picture behind them, and any of the creatures in this movie look so fake, almost cartoonlike with there expressions, infact this movie was like watching some kind of looney toons cartoon with live people. They can fall for miles and somehow survive without a scratch. The movie was released in 3-D in the theaters and maybe it looked good in that setting, but on DVD it just looks silly. I'm going to give this movie a 2 out of 5 I say if you have kids under ten it might be worth watching with them, otherwise I'd stay away from this one, there is a 1959 movie of the same name maybe oneday I'll check that one out.
Summary of Journey to the Center of the Earth
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother a scientist his nephew & their mountain guide discover a fantastic & dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 10/28/2008 Starring: Brendan Fraser Anita Briem Rating: PgWhen a seismic geologist (Brendan Fraser) discovers his lost brother's notes in a copy of the titular Jules Verne novel, he and his nephew (Josh Hutcherson, Bridge to Terabithia, Zathura) head to Iceland. There, joined by a fetching mountain guide (played by Icelandic actress Anita Briem), they get trapped in a cavern and go down, down, down, finally arriving in a primeval underworld full of prehistoric beasts and carnivorous plants. It would be pointless to complain about the empty-headedness of it all; Journey to the Center of the Earth aspires to be a kinesthetic experience. It wants to engage your adrenal glands, not your brain or your heart (the dialogue and characters are so generic, the script may have been cut-and-pasted from previous versions of Verne's book). Fraser, with his goofy handsomeness and accessible presence, provides a reasonably human axis around which all the frantic flying and swooping CGI effects revolve. The movie is as hollow as the world it depicts, but as mindless action movies go, you could do a lot worse. (Note: Journey to the Center of the Earth was released in theaters in 3-D, full of whizz-bang demonstrations of how far 3-D technology had come--trilobite antennae quivering towards the audience, a T-rex lunging out of the frame, even affable star Brendan Fraser spitting on us--as well as a half-dozen action sequences clearly destined to become video games or theme park rides.) --Bret Fetzer
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