When an accident leaves a group of researchers trapped beneath the earth's crust, it's up to a drill team, led by Joseph Harnet, to rescue them. But once underground, the team discovers a mysterious -- and horrifying -- subterranean universe.
If, at this moment, the child next to you grabs your arm and hollers "Duck!", the movie will have been worth the ticket price.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
11 Jul 2008
rotten:
If 3D is indeed the future of movies, we're going to need something more substantial than Journey to the Center of the Earth to convince us.
– Philip Marchand,
Toronto Star,
11 Jul 2008
rotten:
Flat and predictable, though the visuals are often striking.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
11 Jul 2008
fresh:
Perfectly charming as well as predictably eye-popping.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
11 Jul 2008
fresh:
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.