This dumbed-down spin on Jules Verne's classic adventure tale was devised as a kid-friendly roller-coaster ride, and it delivers the goods. Whether anyone over the age of eight wants the goods is another matter altogether.
Geology professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) is about to lose his lab – a smarmy colleague needs more storage space and no-one cares about boring old plate tectonics anyway – and gain an unwanted houseguest: His nephew, surly, 13-year-old Sean (Josh Hutcherson). Sean is the son of Trevor's older brother, Max, who vanished ten years earlier in Iceland, where he was trying to find a portal to the center of the Earth. Along with Sean, T...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG
Length:
92 mins