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 Later he is superseded by another as if the producers also disbelieved the early scenes.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.