Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

3/10

Starring:
Dwayne Johnson
Michael Caine
Josh Hutcherson
Vanessa Hudgens

Directed by: Brad Peyton

Loud, clumsy and meant to be seen on 3D. The effects and events were all so cheesy, the dialogue so lame, and the landscapes too colorful.

Dwayne Johnson, "The Rock", has in the past two years been in some really funny movies, like Tooth Fairy. Why he decided to do that movie, I don't know.

Then there was Fast Five. I’m not much of a Fast and Furious fan, but he did well there... then he decided to sink lower than the Tooth Fairy joke to do this movie.

This is a sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, which Brendan Fraser played the lead in, but due to schedule issues, he couldn’t return.

Studios need to get another hobby, other than the one they all seem to have, which is: "Hey, the part one cost 60 million and made over 240 million in the box office alone, let’s do a part two."

The story had Josh Hutcherson return from the first movie playing Sean, and with him we have his mother’s lover Hank, played by The Rock, who helped Sean decipher a code, which had the location of...

I’ll let you guess.

If you guessed Mysterious Island, you’re right.

Sean believes his grandfather is trapped on the island and needs help.

He and The Rock head off to Mysterious Island, and all I kept thinking was… WHY?

The Rock said it was for bonding, Sean said it was to find grandpa.

Directed by Canadian Brad Peyton, who also directed Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, he pulled some amazingly dull stunts in this movie that will go over the head of any adult viewer, as most of the events were just plain bogus and boring.

Here, in their version of “Alice in Wonderland”, the elephants are the size of cats, bees are so big you can ride on them, and don’t get me started on the lizards.

The movie's comic relief guy, Luis Guzman, looked and acted like something out of a Disney home video.

We also have Sean’s love interest Kailani, played by Vanessa Hudgens, who seemed more out of the movie than in it.

I guess my main problem with the movie is the cast. It was like they were acting in another movie. This is not Michael Caine’s best. I still found it hard to believe that the old Michael Caine could have survived on that island alone for that long, but hey, it’s a movie that you should not see.