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Journey to the Center of the Earth | 
 enlarge | Director: Eric Brevig
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean Michel Par??
Studio: Warner Bros.
Category: Movie
Buy New: $3.99
Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 49
Genre: Action
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 93
ASIN: B001JIDE3M
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 2008
Release Date: November 17, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Yes 3D is Back, what a fun ride. September 5, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Journey to the center of the earth is just wonderful family film to come out and best way to and only is to see in 3D because that's when it comes alive, other than that is just an ok three or four star B movie. Brendan Fraser in another kid like role which he is good at. But he a lot better in this than the trailer gives him credit for (actually the trailer for this was pretty bad, but the film proved it's a lot more fun then trailer) he isn't as cheesy as his previous roles in films and is serious in this role but he is still quite silly but that why most people like him as do I for that reason. He plays a nerdy goofy Prof. Trevor Anderson a nice earth scientist/professor studying the earth movements and teaching students too. He gets a visit from his less than excited nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) for some male bonding getting to one another you know guys stuff. He finds a book that his deceased brother box of things had in it, that book being Jules Verne's book "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" finds clue that his brother left and has to take his nephew along. Where they have quite an adventure of a lifetime that nobody would really believe expect those who belief it could happen.
It's PG for action/ mild violent scary scenes, umm language I didn't hear any so they're none.
Highly recommended to see in 3D for a good time. It well worth your money to see it, just think of it as fun B-movie with great 3D effects in it, oh watch the flare at the end credits there a surprise effect near at the end of credits.
Now only if the studios would restore and re-release all the good 3D films in 3D like: House On Haunted Hill, The Tingler, of course The House Of Wax 1953(Vincent Price Started in all of These Titles). 13 Ghosts 1960, even Jaws 3-D 1984, and many others Please. Do not remake them just clean and restore the 3D elements to these films and then release them in theaters.
A GREAT FAMILY MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3D TIPS October 29, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love this movie. It is good clean solid family fun. Here are some 3D viewing tips. I watched this on my computer and the 3D was great. On an HDTV turn up the contrast and view in a darkened room (like at the show). Also note for some people slightly bending the glasses at the nose rest curves the lenses closer to your eyes and prevents reflection from outside sources. I am a 3D fan and this is one of the best 3D experiences you can have at home.
3-D that WORKS~! December 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't try to play this on an old fashioned CRT TV set - it won't work and will give you a headache.
BUT..
Put this DVD in your COMPUTER's DVD Player and get ready to be blown away. I upgraded monitors and both worked perfectly. My LCD HDTV would have worked better and be bigger, but I never got the colors to match up as perfectly as they did on my Computer's WS LCD (Media Center 2005). You get 4 pair of Red-Blue glasses, which, although, sometimes one would wish that the Set Directors would have chosen better set and costume colors for this Anaglyph version of the 3-D Polarized version that was shown in Theatres, the effect is surprisingly viewable for those who don't mind getting a headache from focusing on things as the scene changes.
This should be a wake up call to all those 3-D movies that were released in Theatre's in the 50s. "Creature from the Black Lagoon" would be stunning. MORE 3-D, MORE 3-D~!
we had a good time with the 3d version December 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
we were watching on a 1080 p lcd tv, I don't know if that had any impact, but the 3d effects worked very well. Yes there is color distortion, but lots of rocks and dinosaurs and yoyos flying in our living room made the adventure worth the time it took to watch the movie. I don't know if we will watch this in 3d all of the time, but we don't need to. The 3d copy has a 2d version on the other side of the disc.
My kids are indiana jones fanatics and loved this movie too. Yes it is sophmoric and shallow but it is a good ride at the same time.
I'll give this 5 stars simply because it is exactly what we expected when we purchased it. Not perfect, but good fun.
Best 3D film so far. August 24, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a fun film that has enough excitement and action for anyone without any real violence to worry parents of small children - i.e., dinosaurs chase people, but never catch them. There's a family-oriented story about a scientist (Brendan Fraser) spending time with his nephew (Josh Hutcherson) while continuing the work of the boy's missing father. Establishing these characters and their developing relationship with fine acting, particularly by Hutcherson (Little Manhattan, Bridge to Terabithia (Widescreen Edition)), makes the far-fetched sci-fi sequences that come later much easier to swallow.
After they follow clues to a volcano in Iceland, the story gradually builds to more thrills, mostly taking advantage of the refined 3D medium without sacrificing the story for it. There is a rail-car ride through a mine reminiscent of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Special Edition), but in my opinion better due to 3D. There is a touching sequence in the middle to keep us grounded. And there are several spectacular action sequences building up to the conclusion. In my favorite sequence Hutcherson finds himself walking across huge boulders and rocks suspended by a magnetic field, hundreds of feet from the "ground." He must jump from rock to rock as you would in crossing a stream, but with a much scarier potential fall. It's hard to do justice to this part in words; you have to see it. This part seemed very original and extremely well-suited to 3D.
For fans of the old James Mason (Journey to the Center of the Earth) film which was more of an adaptation of the classic Jules Verne novel (Journey to the Center of the Earth (Unabridged Classics), you can't really compare this one because it's story follows modern day characters, but assumes the events of the novel were true in the past. I like both movies.
Of all the 3D films I've seen, this is the best for several reasons - acting isn't sacrificed, the story stands alone, and the 3D is refined since a couple years ago. I see 2 movies a week and so far this is my favorite of the year.
Warning: The above review was written for the theatrical release of the film. Now that I've bought the DVD it turns out they did not use the same excellent 3D system on the DVD as in the theatres, which used a new kind of glasses. With the DVD you get the same old cardboard glasses with red plastic for one lens, green for the other, and while the 3D effect still works ok, the color is much worse.
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