Journey 2: The Mysterious Island immediately recognizes its audience and, fully accepting its constraints, pleases them with its fabulous drive and its intrinsic linearity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 22, 2023

There’s nothing about this family-friendly movie that’s outrageously offensive, but there’s nothing about it that’s particularly interesting, well-executed, or inventively conceived either.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2023

...entertaining yet chintzy...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2020

A screenplay that never quite clicks on all cylinders. There are too many scenes dealing with relationships that really halt any momentum.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 13, 2019

Journey 2 is simply magical.

| Jan 26, 2019

Undeniably an exhilarating family friendly, action adventure that'll no doubt thrill younger audiences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 13, 2018

Like its predecessor, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a race against time to survive, but the inclusion of new characters adds a little more interest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2017

For a family, this is an agreeable Saturday outing, largely because director Brad Peyton doesn't set his sight higher than the material actually is.

| May 9, 2016

"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" is light, airy family entertainment that actually ends up being too light and airy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 17, 2012

It's a harmless, lighthearted film with wooden acting, a nice message about accepting your parents-whoever they are-and again, lots of ridiculous CGI.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2012

The only defense for this movie is to say that it's not actually 'trying' to be good ... Are we supposed to applaud just because they set the bar low and barely reached it?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 22, 2012

It definitely has its appeal to the crowd it's pandering toward, and it's a success in its mission to bring the awe and thrills.

| Aug 7, 2012

The whole movie has such an air of giddy adventure that I had a good time with it. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is charming, in spite of its imperfections.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2012

Visually rich with lavish sets and fun movie monsters, but Journey 2 is about as underdeveloped and hollow as assembly-line filmmaking can get.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 25, 2012

...a family adventure aimed squarely at children. For kids, it's fine; they'll probably enjoy all the color, action, and preposterous goings-on.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 22, 2012

Panders to the kiddies, caters to the teens, and tosses in a loser-ethnic-sidekick. The shrugging tone of this 21st-century sabotage of the original novel is summed up by this slogan masquerading as dialogue: 'It's Jules Verne, man-ya gotta believe.'

| May 10, 2012

Falls far short of cinematic art but goes down pretty well with a box of popcorn and modest expectations.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 6, 2012

Feeding this to a young mind should count as a chargable offense.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 20, 2012

It's all a bit silly. But Journey 2 does have the uncomplicated charm of those ancient mid-budget epics in which Doug McClure narrowly avoided being eaten by Pterodactyls.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2012

Utterly disposable and -- apart from Dwayne Johnson's 'pec pop of love' -- almost immediately forgettable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 7, 2012