Journey to the Center of the Earth

PRODUCT ALERT:
Early shipments of Journey to the Center of the Earth were both 3-D and 2-D, but current copies are 2-D only.

That alert was not there when I ordered. Amazon should not have sent me the 2D version when I ordered the other. Oh but they are willing to exchange it, for SOMETHING THEY DONT HAVE!! This should have been a separate product link or they should have notified me.

The 3D version just plain did not work. The colors were distorted as everything was green or magenta, the images were blurry, and it was overall annoying. Parts of it did work in 3D, but the overall picture detracted from the effect.

I tried to return this and was told to contact New Line since it is a production problem and not a store problem. Please contact me if you have been successful in obtaining a refund from New Line and let me know what the process is. I would encourage others who are not impressed with the 3D format to contact New Line as well.

I wanted to see this flick because I liked the original Journey to the Center of the Earth with Jame Mason and Pat Boone. That movie was a real long journey, mostly on foot and still captured the imagination.

What this movie did was made the story into more of fascinating joy ride. It gave you thrill ride sensation, like you were at an amuzement park or at a theme park. The movie had some fun scenes that must have been great in 3D. I liked the roller coaster ride that was created from the mine shaft train, a little Indiana Jonesish, but still fun. The dino scene was a little silly, but still fun. The falling scenes were also pretty good. Although the humor was campy, there were definately a few laughs.

Fraser is a rather nice guy geologist who is down on his luck, his brother went missing over ten years ago and Fraser is attempting to keep his work going. His nephew is sent to spend a short vacation with him and Fraser is given his brothers things that eventually open the door to going on the journey. Cool were the older copies of Jules Vernes actual book. I remembered some of those from grammar school.

There is the usual troubled teen issue at the beginning and he grows from his bonding experience with his uncle. So we have a good story, good comedy, great action and effects, but, it was still a bit light. I wish they would have had Pat Boone show up in the flick for a cameo giving us a connection with the old movie.

I enjoyed the scenes in Iceland and Italy, and of course, the Center of the Earth. Good for a laugh or for a light evening of got nothing better to do.

I like this edition because it came with the glasses and it looked more 3d and it was a very good movie...people got to get this edition

I wanted to see this when it first came out, and I'm glad I didn't. This film seemed like one big advert for a universal studios feature ride. There was zero believability whatsover as the main characters fall for thousands of yards and like cartoon characters survive without bumps or bruises. Sled on the fossilized skull of some unbelievably large dinosuar, ride a broken coal cart like it was a roller coaster etc.

The main characters were likeable. The absent-minded professor, the trailguide, the unhappy nephew. But everything was dumbed-down and cartoonized presumably to appeal to an audience of children.

I found myself fast-forwarding scenes where characters were constantly yelling and screaming as they were being chased and hounded, an the really sappy scene in the middle.

Kids might like the action-y bits. Myself, I found it got old about halfway through. 2 stars.