Oh dear.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

IMDb meta-data is a runtime 1h and 30m, rated 4.1 by 2,000 extended family members.  


Genre: JCE


DNA: Verne. 


Verdict: Uncle! I gave up.


Tagline: Bore. 


A consistently tedious rendering of the Jules Verne story.  Made for television to eclipse a big budget version due out later that same year. In this mishmash, a corpulent child (actor) plays the romantic lead, disbelief was disbelieved right there. Later he is superseded by another as if the producers also disbelieved the early scenes.  


Declaration: I didn’t make it to the end.  


There is a cottage industry of JCE films.  One day I might try to watch a few of them for a comparative perspective.  Or I might hit my foot with a hammer instead.  Hard to decide which would be less painful.