Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Leofwine_draca JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is a loose adaptation of the famous Jules Verne novel about explorers heading into the bowels of the Earth and discovering a secret world beneath our feet. It was made by Hallmark, who did a number of classically-based TV miniseries around the turn of the century, and is cheap and cheesy enough to feel more like an Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation rather than something more serious.The main problem with this miniseries is that there just isn't enough incident to extend to a three-hour running time, thus half of it is padding with endless romantic sub-plots and the like. The cheap CGI effects used to animate the dinosaurs are really appalling, and the wooden acting isn't much better. Treat Williams looks mildly embarrassed to be here, while Jeremy London's acting pales in comparison to that of his twin brother Jason. Hugh Keay-Byrne is a larger than life Scotsman and best known for his villainous turns in MAD MAX numbers one and four, while Bryan Brown gives the most entertaining and over-the-top turn. This Aussie production was directed by one George Miller, but it's not the MAD MAX fellow, sadly.

Mark M Time flies when it's a bad movie, guess what... it's still a bad movie! Tushka Bergen would be the worst actor I have ever seen, she is so wooded and very forgettable. I hate to even give this movie a single star but that is for Brian Brown who is an Aussie icon. I read on a site that Ms Bergen no longer is acting and this is a good thing - motherhood is for her!If you really want to see 'journey to the center of the earth' just watch the version done in 2008 with Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Eric Brevig. His feature directorial debut with this adaptation of the classic Jules Verne fantasy starring Brendan Fraser. The acting is more professional with better production values too!

Marcus Eden-Ellis Oh my, such a great tale so artlessly told. Verne, for those of you that don't know, is (or rather was)one of the true visionaries of science fiction literature. JTTCOTE is one of his evergreen tales that has been endlessly re-made and re-worked by Hollywood. It even spawned a long-forgotten 70's cartoon series.This film is does not serve the Verne's legacy well. There has clearly been money spent on it - some of the special effects are workmanlike - and a few of the c-list actors can turn in a decent performance when put to it. Here however, they are there for the paycheck and nothing more. I could live with that if they were at least working with a good script but everywhere you look there is cliché piled upon cliché and sloppy directing and production design.I guess if you really want to know about this film, watch it and see for yourself but I warn you now, it's about fifteen hours long. At least that is what it felt like! But I guess the best flavour of the piece comes from the fact that the women of an underground undiscovered tribe of natives wear make-up, speak English in a late 20th century idiom and shave their armpits with some kind of incredibly close shaver. And they dance disco style! All this in the nineteenth century...Go on, try it. It's one of those "so bad, it's good" type movies...

groovydemon i haven't read the book but i have to say that the movie is amazing! i just saw it few days back ...believe me i would never have rented a movie with such a name but i saw it on TV when i had nothing better to watch and i got mesmerized by it.The acting is indeed superb and though there have been computer animations but 90% look real...making a movie like this is indeed a difficult task hence all hats off to the director who deserves a great big round of applause. so people watch this even if you're not thrilled to see the cover its not about dinosaurs and monsters its actually a tale of a brave women going in search of her long lost husband and the difficulties she faced with them in her journey and the discoveries they make!