What a concept this is!. A real family movie, that isn't a bunch of cartooney animals singing pop songs or big production numbers with all of us saying, "wow isn't that cute?" Brendan Fraser stars in an updated adaptation of the Jules Verne Classic novel, A Journey To The Center Of The Earth.
What is really well done in this most recent attempt, is that it is set in modern times, and the characters use the Verne novel as their guide. Fraser stars as a struggling professor trying to keep his lab open at his university. He teams up with his young nephew to retrace the footsteps of his late, older brother who indeed thought that the Verne novel was not fiction but an account of another geologists actual voyage to the earths center 150 years ago. Nice idea.
Our two heroes team up with a tour guide, who is destined to become a love interest and the adventure is on to the center of the earth. This is a real nice twist on an old idea. Journey has been made many times over, but this is okay. This is a real family flick. There were all kinds of families in the theater this afternoon, and all were mesmerised. Journey wastes little time getting you to where you want to go, and keeps you there till it's conclusion. You want to go to the center of the earth and you do within minutes. It holds you for a nice, tidy 90 minutes and then your back home.
Plenty of compelling adventures, nice effects, and some fun animation make Journey palatable for all. Mix that with the gifted imagination and vision of Verne, and you've got a real nice package here. Have no fear with the kids either. The language is fine, and Journey does a fine job of maintaining a nice maturity level throughout. Mild warning - there are a few scenes that are a little intense, T-Rex, huge piranha, things of that nature just so you know. No blood or gore, just noise. Fun performances too make Journey a nice Saturday afternoon matinee.
I had real reservations about this one. I was ready for the old rehashing of an old idea that had probably been told better on screen before. But Journey is good fun. Well done. I love being surprised at the movies. Who knows, maybe your kids will want to read the book! Worse things that being introduced to Jules Verne.
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