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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) - Critic Reviews - Page 4 of 6

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By Sara Maria Vizcarrondo (199) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 09 Feb 2012

Surrogate fathers and family values are at the foreground, making the film a quick sell to parents - especially as it boasts the added value…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 09 Feb 2012

This is a family movie, after all -- but you'll have to sit through some abrasively broad, unfunny exchanges to get there…

Review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 Feb 2012

The island locale rings with reggae music regardless of its proximity to Jamaica, and any action sequence is rendered in painfully deliberate slo-mo…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Feb 2012

Even Bwana Devil showed less crassness in its attempts to wow, however, and the more this cardboard blockbuster piles on the cut-rate F/X,…

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By Mary Pols (197) for Time (1,811) on 09 Feb 2012

It's silly enough that young teens are unlikely to be drawn to it unless they've got a thing for Hudgens or want to take an early peek at Hutcherson,…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 09 Feb 2012

Anyone old enough to have read Jules Verne or seen the way his work was successfully adapted in the past will suffer worse than the kids in…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 09 Feb 2012

Even by the unambitious standards of some children's movies and many movies that star Caine, this one has a difficult time making a case for…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Feb 2012

Hutcherson spits his lines out as quickly as possible, which you appreciate, because the way the likable Johnson wrestles with his lines (It…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Feb 2012

The result is a goofy-weird mishmash of some pretty swell CGI creatures and some downright lousy screenwriting…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Feb 2012

For a time, Journey 2 becomes a lost episode of Lost, then it becomes King Kong, minus the ape…

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By John Defore (1,351) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Feb 2012

The movie's flexibility with its own rules would be less noticeable if it were busy thrilling us…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 08 Feb 2012

A kid-friendly special effects romp that will either give you a few chuckles or bore you senseless…

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By David Germain (226) for Associated Press (1,685) on 08 Feb 2012

The presence of actors as good as Caine and Guzman only highlights how dreadful and dumb the banter is…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Feb 2012

The movie flies by pleasantly, and is then instantly forgettable. Perhaps Jules Verne can explain the science of that…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Feb 2012

This is transcendently goofy…

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By Randy Cordova (352) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 Feb 2012

The look of the film is impressive, as are the effects. Overall, however, it's a big, loud, 3-D-drenched jumble…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Feb 2012

This adventure strands Johnson's famously animated features in eyebrow jail, and squanders his outsized charisma and gift for winking self-deprecation…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Feb 2012

Prizes computer-generated wizardry above logical plotting or thoughtful character development, a misguided set of priorities exacerbated by…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 07 Feb 2012

A dose of romance and adventure from the regions of good intentions for the sake of airy entertainment…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 07 Feb 2012

Thrills, laughs, excitement - these are the kind of treasure that this film by Brad Peyton fail to locate…

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