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• Audio Commentary : Director Eric Brevig and actor Brendan Fraser joke and quip their way through an otherwise thorough commentary, covering everything from Journey 's development to its characters, visual effects, 3D shoot, and scenes that proved more difficult than either man anticipated
• A World Within Our World (HD, 10 minutes): An ironically shallow look at several leading theories about what lies deep beneath the surface of the Earth.
• Being Josh (HD, 6 minutes): A day in the life-esque overview of young Josh Hutcherson's experiences on set.
• How to Make a Dino Drool (HD, 3 minutes): How the filmmakers tackled one of Journey 's stickier scenes.

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The 3D movies are coming, and Brendan Fraser is leading the charge! Rob settles down for a funfair ride and a half...

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Believe the hype, and the next few years will see a cavalcade of 3D movies. Leading the charge is this surprisingly low-key (at least in its promotion) adventure with Brendan Fraser. So I grabbed my 3D glasses, and sat back to see what all the fuss is about…

Now I know films in 3D are a gimmick, but it’s a fun gimmick, and as anyone who has ever been to Universal Studios will know, some can be used to great effect to impress an audience. The Terminator ride is one of the best ‘experiences’ there.

This idea of latching onto the ‘experience’ of a film, rather than the film itself, is something that we, as an audience have seen before. The most recent example was the average Beowulf, which was made a whole lot better with Grendel ripping Nordic warriors in half under your nose. And this is really the same tactic that Journey employs. It’s a fairground ride, nothing more, nothing less.

Now granted, to call a film a ride seems harsh, but really this is what it is. Admittedly it isn’t a bad ride, but really all this film provides is a trip on the log-flume without the stagnant water, or a go on ‘Rita Queen of Speed’ without the queuing. And while those expecting a faithful or cerebral adaptation of Jules Verne’s tale will be severely disappointed, everyone else – like the audience sharing the experience with me, who were looking to be entertained by things being poked in your eye or having water spat directly at you from a film – is in for a treat.

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Plotwise things are pretty thin. Brendan Frasier plays a geologist whose brother goes missing a decade earlier doing field-work, investigating and probing into hidden ‘tubes’ in the earth. Fraser then picks up his brother’s lifes’ work and then, one day his messy academic life is interrupted by having his nephew staying with him (which involves a dangling and unexplained plot move about a move to Canada). And – coincidence alert – one of his missing brother’s probes activates on the same afternoon. The action then moves to Iceland, where they team up with a very attractive pot-holer/guide/love interest/Lara Croft clone to get to the probe’s readings, and then get caught up in a storm/trapped in a avalanche.

That’s about the plot summed up, and then the actors phone in their parts. I have a lot of time for Brendan Frasier and have over the past decade enjoyed his movies. Airheads was insane and fun, the original Mummy enjoyable and George of the Jungle is at times comedy genius. And while you do get a bit of the goofy action hero, here it’s a bit underplayed and pretty vacant. The same can be said about Josh Hutcherson (who plays the nephew) and Anita Briem who plays Hannah the titular tour guide. But really this film is about the effects, and as such the characters are secondary as the film moves from one set piece to another.

It’s actually nearly halfway through the film before we get to the centre of the earth, which is surprising as you would think that a flick like this would get down to the man eating plants, giant mushrooms and undergrounds monsters straight away. But instead, after a cave-in, we are given a ‘bonus level’ set piece involving a runaway mine train taken straight out of Temple of Doom , only done on the cheap (and with CG). So while Indy’s dilemma seemed real and urgent, this CG-fest really is just an excuse to do a set of POV shots in 3D.

This action set piece over plot and characters sets the tone for the final reel of the film, where the subterranean realm is not really explored or discussed, but merely wandered through with no sense of awe. The team follow a surprisingly intelligent neon coloured hummingbird through the dangers, to find the only and implausible means of escape. With dinosaurs to dodge, magnetic rocks to navigate and a sea full of evil flying fish to bat out of the way, it’s fair to say that the film doesn’t take itself too seriously, with danger just perilous enough to be able to get through without any real danger. And it’s all, of course, a useful excuse to have things fly, poke or generally come out of the screen towards the audience without those inconvenient things like emotions or plot development getting in the way (check out how quickly they skim over the ‘death’ scene and the heating up issues).

But even with a ending that is verging on the plainly stupid, the film still manages to entertain. And even though the movie is packed full if implausible things (Google on a PSP on a plane, a mobile working miles underground), it’s still fun, silly and entertaining and as such does its job. It’s also a ride that you can’t imagine ever working when it gets to DVD or Blu-ray, meaning that the 3D adventure is very much the one to take.

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An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center. An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center. An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

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• Trivia James Mason reportedly had very little patience with Arlene Dahl 's "movie star" preening. Their relationship off-screen was very much like their relationship on- screen.
• Goofs (at around 21 mins) Early in the movie, Oliver Lindenbrook speaks of the "stars and galaxies of outer space." In the 1880s, however, our Milky Way galaxy was believed to constitute the entire universe. Knowledge that other galaxies exist beyond our own did not come about till the 1920s. Thus a man of the 1880s would not use the word "galaxy" in its plural form.

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• Alternate versions In some European versions of the film, for example the Spanish dubbing, the "Prof of Geology's Song" was re-dubbed into the "Gaudeamus Igitur" song.
• Connections Edited into Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)
• Soundtracks My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose By Robert Burns Set to music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen) Sung by Pat Boone

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I was trying to come up with a metaphor for Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D , and the perfect one came to mind:

Journey 3D is like vanilla pudding.

It was OK, not really awful or anything - but not something you would go out of your way to watch if there was something better available.

Really, I don't think I need to go into the plot of this film too deeply - it's a well known story and everyone should be familiar with either the Jules Verne novel or the 1959 version of the film starring James Mason and Pat Boone. Here we have Brendan Fraser (as Trevor Anderson) playing a professor of geology whose brother has vanished 10 years ago. Things aren't going well for him, with a smarmy department head who is going to close down his lab, which is based on the work of Trevor's brother.

Trevor gets home to discover that his widowed sister-in-law is dropping of her son Sean (Josh Hutcherson) for 10 days while sher prepares things for their move to Canada (don't ask, there's no explanation). Trevor has no idea how to communicate with a 13 year old boy and predictably things get off to a sour start.

Eventually they end up in Iceland at the door of Hannah (Anita Briem) who acts as their guide to the mouth of an inactive volcano. As you know they of course end up plummeting to the "center" of the Earth and I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying they survive. :-)

The film is all about the journey, aptly enough, and the 3D visual effects. We've got a T-Rex, giant Venus Flytraps, glowing hummingbirds, giant sea serpents and huge flying piranhas. Oh, and the obligatory mine scene with a roller coaster-like railroad track on which the transport carts ride.

There are a few scenes where they utilize "in your face" 3D with things jumping out of the screen towards the audience, and from the sound of it folks watching the movie seemed to enjoy it. Again, I'll say that my favorite thing about 3D in films is the depth of field it gives scenes that adds a subtle "you are there" feeling to the movie.

The best actor in the film was young Josh, with Anita coming in second. Brendan Fraser was, well, Brendan Fraser.

So as I said above: If you've got kids 10 and under or if you're a fan of 3D movies, go check it out. Otherwise take away the gimmick and you're basically left with a cheesy made for TV movie.

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• USA Today Claudia Puig Flat and predictable, though the visuals are often striking.
• San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle Journey shows that Brevig knows exactly what visual effects can do -- and more important, what they can't.
• Seattle Times Tom Keogh The absence of star charisma in Journey denies the audience some focus in a movie that keeps changing backdrops and is ultimately no more than the sum of its wild-eyed parts.
• New York Daily News Joe Neumaier The cast hits the right notes.
• Detroit News Adam Graham That dinosaur looks like it's popping off the screen! Cool!
• Rolling Stone Peter Travers I don't know if 3-D could improve all movies (nothing could make The Love Guru funny) but it sure works here.
• New York Post Lou Lumenick Unusual for this genre, the script doesn't insult the audience's intelligence, and it mercifully soft-pedals its message about the virtues of reading.
• Newsday Rafer Guzman Journey may be an utterly weightless movie, but in the end it floats rather nicely.
• New Yorker Anthony Lane Most of the movie, directed by Eric Brevig, is as daft, outlandish, and speedy as it needs to be, and, for all its newfangled effects, touchingly old-fashioned in its reverence for the Jules Verne novel that inspired it.
• Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern Perfectly charming as well as predictably eye-popping.
• TIME Magazine Richard Corliss If, at this moment, the child next to you grabs your arm and hollers "Duck!", the movie will have been worth the ticket price.
• Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek A movie that's faithful to an idea, and to a sense of adventure, more than to a specific work.
• Associated Press David Germain With crisp images and depth that makes you feel you could reach out and stick your hand into the middle of the action, the movie projected in digital 3-D form actually makes that theme-park ride kind of fun.
• Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer Much of Journey plays like a thinner version of an Indiana Jones movie â" a series not noted for its stoutness to begin with.
• Chicago Reader J. R. Jones Eric Brevig, making his feature directing debut after a long career as a visual effects supervisor, lurches from one CG set piece to the next, though he's helped along by Fraser's easy comic touch.
• Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert This is a fairly bad movie, and yet at the same time maybe about as good as it could be.
• Boston Globe Ty Burr The gimmickry can't lift the boats of a threadbare storyline. What the proselytizers and the investors forget is that if the characters and emotions aren't three-dimensional, the rest of the movie will always look flat.
• New York Times Manohla Dargis If Journey to the Center of the Earth is not a ride, then what is it? One thing it may not be, quite, is a movie.

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Director Eric Brevig's adaptation of the classic Jules Verne adventure story is the first live-action feature to be shot in digital 3-D. His scientific theories rubbished by his eminent colleagues, Professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) sets off on a backpacking trip to Iceland to get away from it all with his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and local guide Hannah (Anita Briem). Stumbling across a previously unknown cave system, the explorers soon find themselves journeying deeper and deeper into the earth's core, on a rollercoaster ride into an unknown world populated by man-eating plants, lava lakes, and some seriously hungry dinosaurs.

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• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
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• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.59 x 7.48 inches; 3.53 ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 5017239195747
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 29 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ November 3, 2008
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
• Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
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