LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

SnoopyStyle America has just purchased Alaska. Martha Dennison (Victoria Pratt) hires adventurer scientist Jonathan Brock (Ricky Schroder) to lead an expedition to find her husband Edward Dennison (Peter Fonda) who is lost in a mine near a lake under a dormant volcano in Alaska. Abel Brock (Steven Grayhm) joins his uncle leaving behind his girlfriend in search for adventure. Local Sergei Petkov (Mike Dopud) helps guide them on their journey. The mine can only be seen on one day of the year.This is a lower budget re-envisioning of the classic story. By itself, it's not a deal breaker. It's an adventure no matter where it is set. That's really what's missing. It doesn't have the thrills of adventure or the awes or the wonder. They are trying to make a TV movie with next to nothing stretching out the story. There are lots of scenes of wilderness and underground walking. It has no tension. It gets really boring and never picks up the pace. The underground oasis is basically outside with some yellowing and slight changing of the sky. The yellowing makes the movie look even cheaper. None of it is too impressive. There are attempts at CG creatures that look 2nd rate. The whole movie is 2nd rate.

TheUnknown837-1 Here we have yet another film adaptation of the popular Jules Verne's novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Here, the cast is led by Rick Schroeder as it again tells of explorers finding a passage into the core of the planet where dinosaurs, primitive people, and a whole lost world still exist. I am not that familiar with the novel or many of the movies based upon it, but this 2008 version is a poor adaptation. There were many things I had to complain about it and few to compliment about it. Performances were good, but just about everything else fell short of expectations.The best part of the movie, believe it or not, was not while the characters were in the center of the Earth. Rather, it was while they were on the surface and even then, it wasn't that entertaining. I strongly felt the cinematography was too bright and gave the movie a feeling of schlock and no authenticity. The screenplay was rather poor, unorganized, and many scenes had little or no point. Such as this part where a bear allegedly attacks the characters and scares away the horses. We see the characters shooting, hear a bear growling, and that's all. Special effects weren't that great either. For dinosaurs, we see giant birds (not pterodactyls) and a plesiosaurus. Both were achieved with rather shoddy computer graphics. The creatures took up very little of the film and created no sense of marvel or majesty about themselves, which is what one wants to see in a movie like this. A lost world should be treated with majesty and magnificence.Bottom line, the 2008 film adaptation of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" was a very bland uninteresting film that took its time at developing itself and made very little sense. I suppose it is worth looking at once, but I'm in no itching hurry to view it a second time.

moyjames7 Really disappointed with the movie after all the hype about being a remake of Journey To The Center Of The Earth. I thought with all the modern technology in movie making, it would have a lot more flash than the original. But the original with Pat Boone is still the best. I watched this new movie until the end but after wards, I thought maybe this was part one since I was still waiting for them to get to the center of Earth!! Maybe this is the start of a series??? Anyways, on top of that, ION 38 kept popping up promos for their other shows at the bottom of the screen throughout the movie. That made the movie even worse.

mesamood You never know what to expect from a title like this one.I found the movie to be entertaining and acting very good.Ricky Schroder does an admirable job with a script that needed some more development. I liked seeing him as an action hero and explorer. The special effects were quite well done. A family movie that the whole gang can enjoy. Peter Fonda is fun as an explorer who becomes a "God" within the earth. The story has nice plot points and satisfies its intended audience. The supporting cast does an all around good job. Scenery was beautiful and production values quite high. I think the wardrobe was quite well conceived and the props looked good as well. I give it a strong 7.