Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

Director:

Brad Peyton

Writers:

Brian Gunn (screenplay), Mark Gunn (screenplay)

Stars:

Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine

7 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Dwayne Johnson	...	Hank
Michael Caine	...	Alexander
Josh Hutcherson	...	Sean
Luis Guzmán	...	Gabato
Vanessa Hudgens	...	Kailani
Kristin Davis	...	Liz
Anna Colwell	...	Jessica
Stephen Caudill	...	Cop
Branscombe Richmond	...	Tour Guide
Walter Bankson	...	Hockey Player

Storyline

Ever since his adventure in the center of the Earth, Sean Anderson has been looking for other places mentioned by Verne and other Vernians. He is notified about a coded message, and breaks into a satellite facility to fully receive it. With the help from his stepfather Hank (Dwayne Johnson) he decodes the message leading him to find the map that leads him to Verne's mysterious island. Along with Gabato and Kailani, Sean embarks on a mission to find his grandfather, the legendary Vernian Alexander. But unexpected problems arise as Alexander made a mistake that could change everything.

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Plot Keywords:

lost city | atlantis | lost world | island | second part | 

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Taglines:

Believe the Impossible. Discover the Incredible.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for some adventure action, and brief mild language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 February 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Journey to the Mysterious Island

Filming Locations:

Waimea Bay, Waimea Bay Beach Park, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$79,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$27,335,363, 12 February 2012, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$103,860,290

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$335,260,290

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema,Contrafilm,Walden Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is another Jules Verne novel titled "The Golden Volcano," which, although is set in the Canadian Arctic during the gold rush, spews gold nuggets when it erupts. This is likely where the mountains of gold came from for this movie.

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Goofs

The map coordinates show the latitude to be south of the equator, yet Hank points to a location north of the equator on the globe. Palau is also north of the equator.

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Quotes

Sean: [looking at Kailani] Actually, Hank... Now that I look at it, this chopper's pretty freakin' gorgeous.

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Crazy Credits

There is a brief scene of elephants swimming to the city halfway through the credits right before the cast listing.

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Connections

Followed by Journey 3: From the Earth to the Moon

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Soundtracks

What A Wonderful World
Written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
Produced by William Ross
Performed by Dwayne Johnson

User Reviews

An actual viewer opinion - Not even kids worthy.

I cant spoil the story as there is barely any to find. The only one/s who truly earned any coin in this movie are the people who did the trailer, because they managed to put together a clip from the none existent content of the film. Suffice to say, I can bet you the 80 million dollars to that took to make this film that first graders and/or some random drunken people in a bar can come with a better screen play. Its so bad that you can see everyone of the actors in the film can not believe they are actually going through with this scene after scene. Its so excessively dull that I wouldn't even want my children to see it. The ONLY thing you can do to make this film bare-able is to turn of the audio and watch it as a mute film. Anything you could imagine about the dialog would be better. I'm only giving it a 3 because believe it or not I've seen worse ( : And CGI? Maybe we could have enjoyed the CGI if it wasn't crushingly burdened with carrying the dumbest dialog I've seen in years. I'm only wasting my key taps on this "film" on the off chance that this will save someone the waste of time.