Peyton and cousins Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn, who wrote the screenplay, waste no time giving the characters more than the barest cartoon personalities, allowing the filmmakers to focus on the movie's only reason to exist. In its rushed and clunky opening minutes, Journey 2 establishes that Sean's a bad boy genius who resents his stepdad bonds the two in a scene that shows Hank's an OK guy and Sean's not such a bad boy and not such a genius sends them off to the South Pacific in search of Sean's grandfather (Michael Caine), who sent a cryptic transmission that he had found Verne's supposedly fictional island and lands them in the company of helicopter pilot Gabato (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), who ferry the visitors to the remote isle.
Johnson stars as ex-Navy guy Hank, stepfather to troublesome teenager Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson, reprising his role from the first Journey). Journey 2 also features a change of directors, with Brad Peyton ( Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore) overseeing a collection of impressive but annoying visuals, serving up gimmicky 3-D that's continually trying to poke things in your eye. Johnson, on the other hand, merely simpers. Dwayne Johnson steps in this time, and while he tries to yuck it up amid the nonstop action, he's just not a goofball on the order of Fraser, who somehow can make extreme silliness palatable with that big, simpering grin of his.
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It also lacks the likable goof factor of Brendan Fraser, who starred in the first movie but isn't back for the second. What this one lacks by comparison is the relative novelty of digital 3D, which was in its infancy for mainstream theatrical releases when Journey to the Centre of the Earth came out.
And Mysterious Island is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a movie that the first Journey was, the new flick stranding a misfit band of adventurers on Verne's lost island of freakish creatures. This 3D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dollars purpose with pride, delivering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and most shameless.Īgain poking Jules Verne's remains with a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit Journey to the Centre of the Earth present their second modern take on the 19th century fantasist's wild stories. There's little mystery about Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), joins the quest. It's a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist.
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