Saturday, 8 December 2012

Not so Mysterious


Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

Directed by Brad Peyton this film stars Swayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson, Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Caine. A boy and his step father look for The Mysterious Island from the novel by Jules Verne in an attempt to find the boy's missing grandfather.

While the plot is inspired by the writing of Jules Verne there is a fair amount of other hokum thrown in and there are plenty of elements that do not bare thinking about too much. Several of the sequences are obviously designed for 3D and most of the CGI is pretty impressive. If you take this film for what it is, an action film for younger viewers, it is not too bad but beyond that you will be struggling to find much to say about it.

3/5

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