Journey 2: The Mysterious Island in IMAX 3D

Movie: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island in IMAX 3D

Genre: adventure-thriller

Synopsis: Another movie treatment of the Jules Verne Classic and a sequel (sort of) to Journey to the center of the Earth.  Sean (Josh Hutcherson) – from Journey to the Center of the Earth – is now 17.  He is obsessed with finding his grandfather (Michael Caine) who vanished 2 years earlier.  After he gets a clue from a mysterious radio signal, Sean convinces his stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), to take him to the South Pacific in search of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.  Once there, they hire a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his daughter (Vanessa Hudgins) to fly them to where the think the island is.  They find the island, but discover that surviving the island, much less escaping, is going to be a bit of a problem.

My two cents: This was a fun and entertaining movie. Some nice special effects, a lot of humor.  Ity would have been nice if they could have managed to have Vanessa Hudgins sing a song (rather than The Rock).  It requires some suspension of rationality to accept a lot of what happens – but if you do, you will be entertained.  What I do not understand is why someone does not do a movie that actually follows the original novel. I read this novel in the 5^th or 6^th grade and it still stands as one of the best novels I have ever read.  There is plenty to keep your attention without having to resort to giant crabs, giant lizards, giant bees or any of the other gimmicks recent versions of Mysterious Island seem to require.

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