Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)

Powerful

Load of rubbish!!

best movie i've ever seen.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

A dismal kiddie-oriented science fiction adventure film which is utterly forgettable and lame in comparison to the 1959 fantasy classic with James Mason. Although the film sets off well with a foot firmly planted in seriousness and attempted realism, things degenerate so far that we end up getting silly monsters running around and fighting or befriending our team of B-movie heroes. Everything is bigger in this film in comparison to the original classic; there's a ludicrously large ship which resembles a spaceship (which leads one to beg the question, why wasn't this made simply as an outer-space epic?), there's a huge cast of explorers, a PC-friendly multi-ethnic group, most of whom are extraneous to the plot, and the special effects are more elaborate. In fact ALL of the explosions and backdrops are entirely computer-generated, and look cheap, fake and not-for-one-moment realistic. What happened to the matte paintings of the older days? At least they beat this pixelated rubbish hands down.There's a square-jawed and utterly BORING blond-haired hero guy, played by a worthless non-actor; a jock; a blonde-haired female lead who ISN'T a bimbo for a change but might as well be; a spectacled Chinese professor woman who doesn't actually do anything other than cook a bit of food; the tough black soldier-type who repeatedly goes off the deep end but pulls through in the end, and a female rock-climber who only seems to be around to display ample cleavage. The only actor of note in this mess is A STUDY IN TERROR's John Neville as the stereotyped upper-crust British guy (there aren't any guys around like him anymore, folks) who manages to scrape through without embarrassing himself too much, putting a tongue-in-cheek performance with plenty a raised eyebrow. Also appearing in brief cameos at the opening of the film are F. Murray Abraham as a bearded professor and Sam Raimi as his assistant.As the film sinks deeper and deeper into unrelenting silliness, more fantastic plot elements occur. There's a race of flat fish-type aliens that have glowing green eyes (achieved by someone shining a green-tinted light blub inside their eyes - yes, it's THAT cheap), a sickeningly cute Bigfoot-type hairy Yeti monster (the director made HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, go figure) who joins the crew and is played by the guy who was Lurch in THE ADDAMS FAMILY movies, a stupid female computer head which floats around in a bubble, a race of troglodytes who are not nearly as interesting as the name would suggest, and to top it off an ugly monster humanoid which is kept alive through tubes and wakes up at the end of the movie to reveal that it has a human face - obviously they ran out of money for a mask then. The humanoid says things like "Invaders from the Overworld" and "For three millenia I have been left to suffer in this Hell" which gives you some idea of just how scary this guy is. To add insult to injury, there's no ENDING to this film either, instead just a "to be continued" type approach with our explorers jetting off to another adventure. I at least thought they would discover what happened to Abraham or escape back to the surface, but the credits just roll suddenly and leave you incredulous, as does much of this appalling television movie.

I watched it, despite it being appalling. I was at least waiting to see they they resolved everything and managed to return to the surface.Then the film ended. All still unresolved and underground.Apparently it was a feature length pilot so they were just setting the scene for a series to follow.Needless to say no-one bought it and the series was never made.It was bad. They spent about £1.25 on the musical score, most of that was rental on a bad synthesiser on which they pressed the dramatic sci-fi chords button.The acting wasn't terrible, and the yeti character looked quite convincing.But the special effects were feeble. But the worst aspects of the film are the plot and the script. Truly abysmal!

Wow, this is the worst movie I have ever seen. 3.3? No, more like a 0. Seriously, I have watched literally hundreds of movies that are considered 'bad.' But this one is the worst. It's not even funny bad, it's just bad, really really bad. I'm vomiting just thinking about it.These lines: "sonic bores blind folded" or, "I needed to make sure this ship survived, even if I didn't." Oh, there is the patented black guy, the bad guy in a suit, the old doctor, the 2 hot chicks, and the ugly one, the voiced over ship girl (T-Minus 10 minutes). Oh, and then there are the scenes where they talk to this girl in a floating orb, only none of the actors are even looking near the orb.God I have a headache now. I have to watch Bad Santa to feel better. Yea, that's what i'm going to do.

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.