Journey to the Center of the Earth makes a mess of Verne’s text, losing every sense of imagination and wonder that the writer is famous for.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

Often feels like an excuse to exploit a famous title rather than present a sincere adaptation.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Fraser has very much become a go to actor for lighthearted family fare.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

...the movie's watchable vibe comes as a fairly pronounced surprise...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 31, 2020

The rookie director, Erik Brevig, has an armful of credits working in the visual effects department but he shows absolutely no skill at directing actors.

| May 14, 2018

Despite being constantly upstaged by special effects, the actors are all very watchable.

| Dec 16, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Brendan Fraser's physical dexterity and comic timing are laid out in good order here, and "Journey" is pretty much a Frasermobile. Without him, it just doesn't go anywhere.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 5, 2011

| Original Score: C+ | May 6, 2011

Journey relentlessly dishes out the action and offers the bespectacled audience plenty of goopy, grabby 3-D jolts, but it all resembles a run of the mill video game. Brevig can't shake the material loose from its unbridled artificiality."

| Original Score: D | Jun 2, 2010

Whilst 3D glasses might mask this lapse of originality by putting it all in your face, from a standard visual plane, the creative potential of Verne's novel appears to be inexcusably wasted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 2, 2009

Overall, everyone involved does well, but no one besides the 3D is doing much to drop your jaw.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 11, 2009

...rather juvenile...with many of its shots intended more to show off the 3-D process than to further its story line.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 20, 2008

Brendan Fraser's playful force of personality rules, 3D or no 3D, one of the few funny guys who could grab attention away from a dinosaur in assault mode, in the center of the earth or anywhere else on the planet.

| Oct 18, 2008

The movie proves the perfect showcase for 3D. I can't say that it does the same for Fraser.

| Oct 3, 2008

It's all good clean fun: a rattling good yarn, in fact, with mostly nicely modulated performances from Fraser, Hutcherson and Bream, emphasising confidence, growth, solidarity and self-reliance.

| Sep 26, 2008

Fraser salvages his reputation as a solid, matinee-style action hero in this family-oriented fantasy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2008

Brevig does a barely competent job of imitating the Indiana Jones movies, and seems more hindered than helped by his chosen format...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2008

Poor Brendan Fraser, he must have known he had nothing to work with here, he looks as if he's sleepwalking through the role, not a career highlight for him.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2008