Takin' A Journey

I recently watched the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth. It starred Brendan Fraser and some unknown but still good actors Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Directed by Eric Brevig, it is supposedly based on Jules Verne’s novel, Journey to the center of the Earth. Despite the almost overdone plot of the adventurous common person turn explorer who ends up saving the world, or in this case his companions, and wraps it up with ‘getting the girl’ it still managed to keep my entertainment for most of the movie.Adventure movies can only take you to the edge of your seat so many times before becoming predictable, and if they do it continuously, they at least owe the audience to do it well. The movie was about a scientist, whose department is getting shut down, who has a brother that had gone missing about ten years ago. No one knows what happened to him, but his brother, Brendan Fraser, finds his brothers copy of Jules Verne’s Journey to the center of the earth. In the copy are noted written by his brother that give advice on how it would be possible to get to the center of the earth, and what is down there. This leads the scientist to believe that his brother had taken the book as non-fiction, and had attempted to indeed journey to the center of the earth. The scientist who is currently supposed to be taken care of his thirteen year old nephew, flies both him and his nephew over to New Zealand to find this other scientist who is supposed to have had ideas similar to his brother's. The scientists is dead, however, but his daughter, who is a mountain guide agrees to take the two men up to a mountain where some locator for an experiment the scientist is doing is. While they are up in the mountain, a storm hits, and they become trapped in a cave. They have to go into a cave to find a way out, and while doing so they happen upon the center of the earth and have various spellbinding experiences including a run in with a dinosaur and a dangerous encounter with lava. Overall, the movie is decent, but i would not buy it, for it is hardly worth the 2 bucks to rent it. Being a big fan of the movies Monkey Bone and Blast from the Past, I enjoy Brendan Fraser as much the next person, and in this movie, he is the one thing giving it a decent rating as opposed to sucky.