Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) (V)

User Rating:

3.0/10   

Directors:

David Jones
Scott Wheeler

Writers:

Steve Bevilacqua (screenplay)
Jules Verne (novel)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Block Blunder | Based On Novel

Cast

Greg Evigan	...	Joseph Harnet
Jennifer Dorogi	...	Kristen Radford (as Jennifer Renee)
Dedee Pfeiffer	...	Emily Radford
Vanessa Lee Evigan	...	Victoria Jansen
Caroline Attwood	...	Gretchen Lake
Amelia Jackson-Gray	...	Kate Burroughs
Sara Tomko	...	Betsey Case
Vanessa Mitchell	...	Eve Abraham
Michael Tower	...	Marty
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dylan Diehl	...	April
Jason S. Gray	...	General Cash
Leah Grimsson	...	Dorris
Damien Puckler	...	Noah Freebourne
Oliver Rayon	...	Private Gomez

Also Known As:

Journey to Middle Earth (UK) (DVD title)

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | UK:12

Company:

Asylum, The

Movie Connections:

Version of Viaje al centro de la Tierra (1976)

Wow... that was...uh... awful!

I don't usually post... but had to on this one. I'm guessing the marketing pitch went something like this, "Okay... we release this piece of roughly cobbled together footage from the cut-room floor from an old sci-fi flick that was killed for good reason 20 years ago at the exact same time as Brenden Frazier's 'Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3-D', call it by the exact same name and hope nobody notices. Who wants in?!" My wife kept jokingly asking, "Is this a 'Sweded' version of a 'real' movie?" (see "Be Kind, Rewind" for concept of "Sweding"). Honestly. An all female combat unit who is neither on a combat mission nor behave like soldiers. Poor whip-cams and badly edited cut scenes. Special "ship effects" that have repeat-cells (remember Scooby-Doo cartoons? Remember how the background kept "repeating" when the gang would run down a hallway). Horrific dialogue, audio mixing (it was like watching old Kung-Fu movies... lip flaps don't match the dialogue... crap, the Japanese Anime we watch does a better job than THIS movie did!), acting, direction, photography...honestly, the only thing even remotely redeeming was the lame attempt to give Homage to Aliens (pirated dialogue "Hey... you look just like i feel...", an easily identifiable "Hudson", and even a gratuitous "chest bursting" concept), which would have been mildly funny if it wasn't attempting to take itself seriously.