Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
2012 Directed by Brad Peyton
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Believe the Impossible. Discover the Incredible.
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
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Michael Caine... what have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! *falls to my knees and sobs uncontrollably*
This film is as clumsy and awkward as the title itself. The pace is fast, while everything else seems to be all over the place. They went ahead and sacrificed logic, character building, personality, mood, and rhythm to achieve supersonic speed.
In other words, they did a Michael Bay.
Except, they didn't even get the explosions and visual effects right, instead, they ended up with something quite unfinished and fake looking. Almost like they forgot they had to make it look real, and just went Pixar style all over this shit.
I wish they would quit their money grind on Jules Verne, it's really rather depressing. -
Hungry Gamer: I hate you, stepdad The Rock. There's so much tension between us.
Next scene.
The Rock: I'm good with codes and maps and stuff.
Hungry Gamer: Great! Let's be buds.On the island.
Michael Caine: Look, I'm on a giant bee. This mysterious place has loads of mysterious creatures like this. Mysterious.
The Rock: This mysterious island is mysteriously sinking. "It looks like the liquefaction has tripled overnight!" (actual dialogue)
Hungry Gamer: So, all these mysterious animals will drown?
The Rock: ... am... Check out my tits... they can dance. Quick, throw berries at them. -
I had the misfortune of paying good money to see Brendan Fraser’s Journey to the Center of the Earth at the cinema so I can’t say that a sequel was high on my watchlist. This time around Fraser is nowhere to be seen (I’m not even sure his character was even referenced) and instead, The Rock, has tagged along for the ride. The casting switch is for the better with Dwayne Johnson providing a better action-comic foil for the brightly coloured CGI adventure. If the film’s subtitle didn’t give it away, the adventure takes place on Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (with a bit of Swift and Stevenson thrown in for good measure), where Josh Hutcherson and his stepdad set out…
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The reason this gets the rating it does has nothing to do with the quality of the film. The film itself is absolutely terrible. I'd say maybe eighty percent of the dialogue is exposition, which makes all the characters extremely dull to listen to. The story is also boring and predictable (we made predictions regarding story elements during the course of the film, and the majority were bang on). The effects aren't good, and for a mysterious island, you'd think there would be actual mysterious things on it.
So why does this film get one and a half stars? Well one star goes to Michael Caine for simply being one of the greatest actors to ever live. This is a…
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Thank you Vanessa Hudgens! You made this absurd adventure a lot bearable...
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I can't say I liked it, but I also can't say I disliked it. Journey 2 seems as if they had two ideas as to what the movie should be and couldn't figure out which was better, so they combined them.
The adventure aspect with the family drama was the part of the movie I enjoyed. It felt like some care was put into that, and it seems that it's the way that the movie should have been geared. It's the core and keeps us invested in the characters and what is happening on screen.
Then there is the comedy. I don't know who decided to infuse the bad jokes and the bad slapstick portions of this movie. They seem…
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Thank you Vanessa Hudgens! You made this absurd adventure a lot bearable...
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Michael Caine... what have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! *falls to my knees and sobs uncontrollably*
This film is as clumsy and awkward as the title itself. The pace is fast, while everything else seems to be all over the place. They went ahead and sacrificed logic, character building, personality, mood, and rhythm to achieve supersonic speed.
In other words, they did a Michael Bay.
Except, they didn't even get the explosions and visual effects right, instead, they ended up with something quite unfinished and fake looking. Almost like they forgot they had to make it look real, and just went Pixar style all over this shit.
I wish they would quit their money grind on Jules Verne, it's really rather depressing. -
The Rock carries this film, without him, this would have been a big piece of crap. But Dwayne is really funny and a great character. Michael Caine also, the Rock and Caine together is a great teamup and should be done in a more serious film. This movie has more CGI than Avatar, and it's one of those made for 3D because of 3D, lots and lots of stuff in your face 3D stuff, though the peckflex berries scene really was halarious and prolly more so in 3D.
Overall, forgettable in every sense of the word, but the Rock and Caine deliver and makes the movie fun.. um yeah, well, and the young hottie.. she's worth looking at too hehe ;)
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This was a really fun movie!
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it was a good movie...
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I enjoyed this. It's noticeable how much was shot for 3-D, for better or worse. Someday I might get a chance to check this out, but this was amusing and has a game cast of charismatic actors.
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No vi la primera parte de esta (no se se continúen) serie de películas sobre libros de Verne, pero viendola no deje de pensar en Jurassic Park, es una franquicia de películas de aventura en inhóspitos, en donde siempre habrá un animal gigante que te quiera devorar. No te va aburrir, pero el personaje de Luis Guzman llega a caer bastante mal.
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I hate myself.
Brainless dialogue and plot, dull "thrills," an uncomfortable sexualizing of Vanessa Hudgins (not that she doesn't do this on her own), etc. It's another Jaws 4 for Michael Caine. Well done sir.