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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3D
(Running Time: 92 min/Rated: PG)
Three Out of Five Stars
Reviewed by Denise Castillón

MAKE YOUR NEXT FAMILY TRIP A “JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH”

Like amusement park roller-coasters, the movie JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3D is great family entertainment. Just as long as every family member is tall enough to fit their seat, -and old enough for the movie’s PG rating “for intense adventure action and some scary moments”! At unexpected times, you will squirm and jump out of your seat, -thanks to the movies’ spectacular 3D digital effects, while being transported to a fantastic new world full of exotic creatures living beneath the earth’s surface.

Solitary bachelor and eccentric science professor, Trevor Anderson (BRENDAN FRASER), minds his apathetic teenaged nephew, Sean (JOSH HUTCHERSON) for his sister-in-law for a couple of weeks. In attempt to interest Sean in science, Trevor brings him to his research laboratory. Once there, Trevor observes that the Earth is displaying the same seismic conditions that occurred at the time when his brother, and Sean’s father, vanished, without a trace, ten years ago. Analyzing his findings, Trevor determines his brother traveled to Iceland at the time of his disappearance. With the single-minded purpose of finding his missing brother, Trevor reluctantly brings Sean along for the journey. Once in Iceland, they hire a beautiful and capable mountain guide, Hannah (ANITA BRIEM), and all three embark on an adventure of a lifetime and discover a world thought only to be merely conceived by the imagination of a storyteller.

Based on the classic science-fiction fantasy novel by Jules Verne, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is the first live-action feature film to be shot and released entirely in the newest digital 3D format, REAL D.

JOURNEY 3D is the part of a whole batch of upcoming three-dimensional movies. This modern new wave of 3-D pictures are seen by the movie studios as their best game plan to improve theater attendance and box-office grossess. Today’s 3-D digital systems require major financial investments, both by the studios and theater owners. To produce such films, a 3D camera is used to simultaneously record separate left and right-eye images onto two filmstrips – one for each eye. To project the REAL D format, IMAX theaters and other 3D-equipped movie auditoriums require a 3-D digital projector, which alternates the two polarized images clockwise and counterclockwise at 144 frames per second. The theaters also need a special silver screen, or IMAX screen, which is designed with a slight curve to integrate the audience’s peripheral vision. Until 3-D display technology is successfully developed, polarized 3D glasses are still necessary to fuse the two images together and create a single, larger-than-life image and the sensation of being “in” the movie.

Directed by Academy Award-winning visual effects veteran Eric Brevig (TOTAL RECALL, PEARL HARBOR), from a screenplay by Michael Weiss and Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin. Produced by large-format film producer Charlotte Huggins. A co-venture between New Line Cinema and Walden Media.