Journey to the Center of the Earth

Really from 1993?! The special effects indicate that it could be an end of 60's movie. Awful creatures. Bad "Drilling machine" that look like some enormous Phallus. The evil fish looks like some candy children eat, and the worst of all must be the effect/spiral they use to go from one scene to another. This guy should never be allowed to make any movies, unless it was meant as some bad joke.

This movie at first looked like the simplistic movie that could be entertaining on a Saturday afternoon. One never thought it would be great, but the hope was there for a pleasant if not simple few hours.

This movie could not even achieve those simple explanations. The movie started with some good scenes and some interest. But after a bit the acting seemed to grow much worse. The creatures looked sort of like people in gorilla suits - who also seemed to be guilty of bad acting. The Plot seemed to quickly drift downward into filling up time. Awful. It is hard to imagine a movie that is not even good enough to take a nap to, but this one seems to hit that level.

This movie shames the original and takes script-writing to an all-time low. Some of the effects were interesting, but the dialog was so bad and the characters so stereotyped, I couldn't finish watching it. 35 minutes was all I could tolerate.

Unless you enjoy really bad movies, avoid this one entirely.

The only thing really surprising to me was that it was filmed in the Nineties and not thirty or forty years earlier. It was quite reminiscent of the films I used to sneak into the neighborhood theater to see on Saturday afternoon. Lots of action, outlandish characters, unbelievable situations and even cheesy swirling scene changes. It doesn't seem to pretend to be anything but what it is, and what it is is not bad,for what it is.

I liked the movie, but would like to see it developed more, maybe with more mature writers. I would like to see it turned into a series. I'm a science-fiction fan, and someday I would like to write or narrate a revised script for this movie or other movies of a similar type. I think they did pretty good for what they had to work with, but maybe could have done better with a bigger budget.