Movie Info:
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Genre: Action/Adventure/Family
Cast:
Josh Hutcherson ... Sean Anderson
Dwayne Johnson ... Hank Parsons
Michael Caine ... Grandfather
Vanessa Hudgens ... Kailani
Luis Guzmán ... Gabato
Kristin Davis ... Liz Anderson
You probably weren't expecting a sequel to 2008's Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3D. And this is probably because you forgot that 2008's Journey to the Centre of the Earth even existed. That's not your fault – it was one of those gimmicky films from the early days of digital 3D that basically acted as a placeholder for Avatar.
But now there's a sequel to Journey to the Centre of the Earth, of sorts. It bears the clunky title of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, and there's been a radical overhaul since the first outing. Brendan Fraser has been replaced with Dwayne Johnson, there's a mysterious island instead of the centre of the Earth and it's a gimmicky film from the dying days of digital 3D that basically acts as a placeholder for Avatar 2. But is Journey 2: The Mysterious Island any good? Let's comb through its trailer to find out
As with the center of the Earth (3D), finding the place itself ends up being the easy part; it's surviving and getting off the island that eats up the last hour of cinematic clock-watching. What starts off as a lovely vacation to a tropic isle--a lovely place where you can ride giant bees without the lines of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! Disney tour--quickly becomes a nightmare once Michael Caine (spoiler: Michael Caine is also on this Mysterious Island) points out that, in addition to these awesome bees you can ride, there are also other giant things more dangerous than bees. Like giant lizards, for example. Or like The Rock's giant pecs, which perform a dance that deflect oncoming berries away from them and towards an eager audience's 3D glasses. Just as Jules Verne always intended.
The follow-up to the 2008 hit. The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist--a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather (Dwayne Johnson) joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever.
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