Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I purposely bought this DVD as I'm a fan of low-budget movies. This Journey to the Center of the Earth is an attempt to cash-in on the blockbuster film starring Brendan Fraser.This movie copies a few elements from the blockbuster, such as a T-Rex and man-eating plants. The script is alright and a little thrilling, but the performances and the visual effects stink.(obviously) So... Greg Evigan and Dedee Pfeiffer are an ex couple scientist who travel in a driller that resembles the Iron Mole from 'At the Earth's Core' for about half an hour of the whole movie to rescue a group of six FEMALE soldiers(??!!) who are accidentally teleported into the center of the earth when they are suppose to be in Germany. In there, the FEMALE soldiers(??!!) encounter man-eating T-Rexes, a swarm of giant alien-looking spiders, carnivorous snapping plants and other dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. The acting is atrocious, the editing is really bad(For instance, the scene of the plants only lasted about 30 mins!! Then the show another scene, which is confusing due to the horrible editing) but the special visual effects are mediocre. The T-Rex scenes was kinda disappointing as they only appear in the first parts of the film and not the climax.Overall, the script is bad but still has enough fight scenes. The giant creature scenes are action-packed too. I do not really recommend this film but if you're a true low-budget movie fan, go for it

Some reviewers felt this mess was fun. Jeez. Their taste is in their mouth. This bore about boring to the center of the earth must have had Jules Verne spinning wildly in his grave. I found it at Wal-Mart and would love to get my $5 back. It is doubled with 100 Million BC, also with Greg Evigan. I enjoyed some of the '50s-60s schlock. They were fun. This was a ripoff. Less than 5 minutes of looking at a sick dinosaur with vocal cords, and a few minutes of a spider with gland problems, both phonier than Ma Bell. One more thing, the music was an outright steal from Phillip Glass. Action? None. It was talk-talk-talk, and stupid talk-talk-talk at that. The picture on the box has this really mean looking dinosaur. Evidently, he was cut out of the movie. Fred Flintstone's Dino was far more convincing. It is advertised as a Maximum Movie Experience. They should be sued for false advertising. The girls were good looking and a couple of them could be classified as actresses. Appearing in this piece of junk is no way to further a career. Does Michelle have any words of advice for her sister --- like----keep away from this tripe? You get the picture. Don't get this picture.

Barely a movie, this version of Jules Verne's classic tale has a bunch of alleged female soldiers, who look more like a bunch of college babes attired in wife-beaters, accidentally transported to the center of the Earth. Only the center of the Earth looks remarkably like Hawaii. A rescue team is sent after them, manned by Greg "Me and the Bear" Evigan, who somehow got very old overnight. A T-Rex shows up to keep the girls on their toes, along with a very large spider. But we spend way too much time in the girls' company, listening to their inane chatter(some of which appears to have been later looped) and watching their uniformly bad acting. A little girl-on-girl action or shirt doffing might have helped. Alas, we get neither. A little comedy also might have helped. Alas, the movie is played dead-serious. This truly is as close to a non-movie as I am yet to see at age 60.

Even below the typical level of Sci-Fi channel stuff. Most of these movies you can laugh at, but this thing barely achieves even camp-level status. It has next to nothing to do with the Jules Verne work, only rips off and defames the title. In fact, everything in this movie is ripped off from somebody else's ideas. The $7 budget used in this film was only enough to hire some Drama 101 students from a local middle-school. A rag-tag group of Xena-wanna-be's are supposed to go to Germany in a covert mission, using some sort of teleportation device. Would you believe it doesn't work right? Well, they don't materialize inside of solid rock like this movie's writers did; instead, they end up in a south Pacific tropical island paradise. It's the home to a few CGI dinosaurs that actually appear occasionally, usually to roar. There's other Skull island type grotesque creatures scaring our heroines, too.The group of stereotypes--I mean soldiers include Vilma Dinkley. She examines a pebble, and immediately knows they're 600 kilometers below the surface, under magma. You heard that right: under magma. There's a bully cat-fighter girl, a Barbie cutout doll, and their Camp Fire girls troop leader--I mean, captain. They all look like refugees from an Annette and Frankie beach musical. Scenes involving the tunneling vehicle are even sillier. The scientist and the army guy ride around through magma like they do it every day, making one-liners. The machine emerges from a magma chamber into the Hawaiian set, and shows no signs of even being warm. No smoke, ash, discoloration--nothing.If somebody sells the DVD of this at a yard sale for 25 cents, it's price gouging.