Review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) by Joe A — 31 Jul 2012

Journey 2 is an absolutely harmless and silly adventure that should amuse the target audience of kids and tweens it's aimed at. To sit there and pick on this flick for it's predictable story, cheezy dialogue, enormous plot holes (if the island sinks every 140 years, how does the ecosystem form so quickly when it rises again?) and one of the silliest performances Michael Caine has ever given, when those the film is intended for won't really care.

No, all they want are silly laughs, lot's of fast moving and equally silly action and giant bugs along with the goofy antics of The Rock and his co-stars. And for those tweens just hitting puberty we have a puppy love romance between Josh Hutcherson and Vanessa Hudgens (who can't hide her hotness even in a kids movie.

) And as far as what the film is needed to do, director Brad Peyton and his CGI artists provide that just fine while mom and dad sit there with smirks of derision on their faces. No different then the cheezy Land That Time Forgot and At The Earth's Core movies I saw in the 70s as a kid.