Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

hyped garbage

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The frames tell a story. One example when Sean's greed leads to the demise of the characters individuality. After the free fall scene, Trevor and Sean swim to solid ground rock,which I believe symbolizes a pivot point and shows there relationship is solid. As the mountain guide struggles alone in the water she can no longer be the independent any more, and is forced to accept unity. Once all three of them reach "Solid Ground" The luminous birds they interact with, reflect the true beauty of there relationship and shine a new light on there situation.

It is not a great adaptation. CGI is the basic ingredient and that is not surprising. Brendan Fraser does a decent job, the story is good kick to read again the novel of Jules Verne, the young Josh Hutcherson is surprising good and the purpoise is obvious - a movie for large public. that is the motif for to be real critic about it is a non-sense. because it gives adventure, succes and Jules Verne represents the good pretext for a small story , out of coherence, almost chaotic and ...nice. sure, it is enough. a correct adaptation for MTV young public.

This film tells the story of a seismologist whose brother disappeared a few years ago. He finds some clues in his brothers belongings, and hence sets off to Iceland with his nephew in search for the missing man."Journey to the Center of the Earth" is pretty scary for a family adventure! That treacherous sea with monstrous creatures is actually scary. The dinosaurs are not for the very young either. Coupled with lots of vertigo inducing heights, roller-coaster action and vertical drops, there is a lot of adventure and thrills for the viewers. The romance subplot is rather unconvincing, but it serves the purpose. It is a brain off action adventure for teenagers.

It's been ten years since professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser)'s brother Max been missing. The university is about to clear Max's lab for storage. His nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) is spending 10 days with him while Sean's mother is preparing to move to Canada. Trevor is given a box of Max's stuff. There he finds the Jules Verne book 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth' which Trevor and Sean follow in the track of Max. Once in Iceland, they find Hannah (Anita Briem) who is the daughter of a deceased scientist. Max and the dead scientist both believe in the reality of Jules Verne's book. So Hannah, Sean, and Trevor follow the trail to an unbelievable underground world.Forget about the science, this is a simple fantasy amusement park ride. Brendan Fraser is the same guy as 'The Mummy'. He's still that charming nice guy. Josh Hutcherson is pretty good, but Anita Briem is kind of cold. Chemistry isn't that necessary. It's a great fun ride nonetheless.