Journey to the Center of the Earth [Blu-ray]

By far Journey to the Center of the Earth (2-D and Limited-Edition 3-D) has the best 3D experience I have had in comparison to the limited selection of 3D titles available. This movie is a must see, pure family enjoyment and yes I was thankful that 4 3D glasses were packaged with the Bluray disc, no one felt left out and we all enjoyed the movie immensely.

This movie can be best described as roller coaster action - meaning, the movie goes from one action sequence to the next, with a very shallow story in between that serves mostly as a way for the movie to move from action piece to action piece.

With that said, I liked the movie. It was mindless fun that kept me entertained. I'm not the biggest fan of Brendan Fraser (sp?), but he does a decent enough job here - he is at his usual slap-stick comedy routine, but that helps lighten the mood of the movie. Even the kid actor did a good job (I remember him from Bridge to Terebitia (sp?), so I was hoping he would do just as well in this movie).

As to the BD itself - the movie has a pretty clean transfer, which helps make the 3D version of the movie look even better. I must admit, even though I felt a bit silly sitting there with those 3d glasses, the 3d wasn't bad at all; too bad it causes the colors to be crap, but otherwise, it was well done.

I first bought this blu-ray because it touted 3-D. Unfortunately, the 3-D colors (pink or green) distract you from the movie. The story of the movie was boring. I would not recommend it to anyone.

As movies go it's pleasant enough; Brendan Frasier plus a hot woman is watchable, but let's face it Brendan is no James Mason. The movie is an excuse for a 3D film (they used the RealD polarized system (passive glasses) in theaters which was dark but good), and would be all right IF the 3D was even remotely as watchable here, (It's not). To combat pirating they used a magenta-green system instead of the red-blue standard, and it's even worse than bad. Now that there are Mitsubishi and Samsung HDTVs that are 3D ready out there the studios need to get with the program and produce either field sequential or polarized versions,(watchable on affordable 22" iz3D monitors). Anaglyph just doesn't cut the mustard anymore. People who will pay for blu-ray will shell out for the hardware to get a decent 3D experience at home! If I were either of those 2 companies above I'd contract the studios to put out software for the Tri-def or Stereoscopic viewer format which they are compatible with. Without a decent format to view the 3D on, this picture didn't need to be made........stick with James Mason.

I saw the 3D version in the theater which used REAL-D technology, it was the best 3D movie I had ever seen. The glasses were grey not pink and green like the ones included with the Blu-Ray/DVD. In addition the 3D version did not have the great colors that was seen in the theater.

That being said the movie itself was good, special effects were great and I can't complain about Brendan Frasier.