Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

grizzlekix Great storyline, good characters, good watch. Love baby josh hutcherson.

invisibleunicornninja A few years ago my mom borrowed this movie from the library claiming that it was entertaining. It is not. Do not watch this movie. It is terrible. Characters - I have no clue if there were actually characters in this movie. A more accurate description would be "a couple of people were asked to read lines, and walk across poorly designed greenscreens in an effort to get people to call them actors." Take it from me, no one on the cast of this movie cared enough to even attempt a convincing performance. The script was pretty bad, but still. Plot - This movie is mostly boring filler. There is a plot, but there are no stakes to it and it doesn't help that most of the human beings shown onscreen are too dumb to breathe. Sights and Sounds - Nothing in this movie that doesn't take place on the surface looks real - and even then there is still some unconvincing CG above ground. Maybe this movie looked good in theaters - I don't know - but most people aren't going to see this movie in theaters seeing as how this movie was released 10 years ago (more depending on when you're reading this review). If the only thing that your movie has to offer is that it looks kinda cool in 3D on a big screen, then you have failed. The sound mixing is also pretty bad. Message - True, I might not have been paying too much attention by the end (the only reason I watch this movie all the way through was because I was bribed) but I'm pretty sure the end message was that lying and stealing is good. The "protagonists" lie and steal all throughout the movie, and in the end they come out on top. Great message for the kids to learn.

generationofswine Its Jules Verne and I remember having some very positive experiences with him at a very young age. So it has that going for it even if its not really the Jules Verne story, at least not in anything but name and concept.When I was little there was a made-for-TV movie that looked like it was intended to start a series that never happened and all the kids on the block ate it up.Unfortunately the made-for-TV movie was better.This version suffers from the same failure that Beowulf did....it was just too much.They toned it down a bit with the 3D, there were scenes that gave the viewer a break, albeit a short break.The problem is that once the action hit, once the story started to move along the 3D was too much and too constant.I remember vividly when they first arrived in Iceland....and that's about it.Afterwards I just remember all the 3D being too much and too CGI and in the end, I forgot I was watching a movie. They bombarded the audience with too much and, yes, it looked cool, but does that even matter when, in the end, you are too distracted to remember you paid for a movie, and somewhere in there, there was a story with actors actually acting it out...but they were well hidden beneath the 3D effects and you really didn't get to see them.Thank God movies learned how to tone it down and find a happy medium since.

stevenwrodgers If you like cartoons and sci-fi, you'll probably like this. I must admit it was entertaining, but they lost me at the point that the boy received a cell phone call from 3,000 miles below the surface of the earth! I can't even get a signal from my own basement, 2 miles from the nearest tower! Notwithstanding, it is similar to many blockbusters, in which the main characters go through numerous near-death experiences that would kill any normal human being 10 times over, yet they all come out relatively unscathed. The inevitable romance between the girl and the scientist is obvious from the beginning of their journey, but.... If you can suspend disbelief for two hours, especially if you have 3-D, it could be an enjoyable experience.