Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 4 nominations
- Palauan
- (uncredited)
- Tourist
- (uncredited)
- Nautilus Passenger
- (uncredited)
- Tourist
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDespite this movie being a sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), Josh Hutcherson is the only actor to return from that movie.
- Goofs(at around 58 mins) After Sean falls from the giant bee and injures his ankle against a log several individuals say he has a "dislocated ankle" and his stepfather and grandfather reset it quickly and easily as you would do with a dislocated shoulder. Although it is possible to "dislocate" your ankle it is not only very difficult to do, but due to the unique, and very stable, make-up of the ankle (unlike the shoulder) it only occurs in conjunction with either a fracture or multiple ruptured tendons of the area. Something that is very serious and extremely painful and definitely not something that could be easily remedied by 'popping it back into place' and then the individual being able to walk about and hike.
- Quotes
Hank: [singing] I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom, for me and for you. And I think to myself: What a wonderful world! I see giant bees, and I could have told ya: Don't trust Alexander - he's older than Yoda. And I think to myself: What a wonderful world! The island that we stand on... Well, it's currently sinking. Sending those secret codes - what the heck were you drinking? But it's all in the past, we wiped the slate clean! We're going to find Nemo's submarine! And you'll think to yourself: What a wonderful world. Oh, yeah...
- Crazy creditsThere is a brief scene of elephants swimming to the city halfway through the credits right before the cast listing.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #20.79 (2012)
- SoundtracksLetterbomb
Written by Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool, Mike Dirnt
Performed by Green Day
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
If Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a parody of adventure movies (see the above quote), then I missed the humor, for there is enough cheese in the awful CGI to make a new moon. This loose sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth happily subs Dwayne Johnson for Brendan Fraser, but neither actor should include these third-rate adventures on their vitae.
Combining Jules Verne, Jonathan Swift, and Robert Louis Stevenson, Journey 2 takes the crew to a mysterious Island where Sean (Josh Hutcherson from Journey to the Center of the Earth) looks for his grandfather, Alexander( Michael Caine). When he does find him, we find an aging actor at the nadir of his career, overacting an eccentric adventurer with fake smiles and laughs to embarrass those of us who remember his marvelous Peachy in a superior adventure, The Man Who would be King. Wait, wait, maybe Caine is out-cheesed by Luis Guzman as a bumbling Latino father of the lovely Vanessa Hudgins, playing his daughter.
Johnson as Sean's step father has his moment singing "What a Wonderful World" on a ukulele around a campfire; yes, I am serious—see for yourself. No valley low enough for director Brad Peyton to go to achieve the peak of cheese.
With an island populated by dwarf elephants and sharks and giant bees (see the crew navigate these bugs to achieve an absurdity even Harry Potter in his games wouldn't attempt), we also find the original Verne Nautilus to get back home, which is where you'll comfortably be but briefly until you check your bank account to assess how much this non-adventure cost you and your family. Or why it was worth it to see Journey 2 in 3-D when 2-D is embarrassing enough.
Better to turn on reruns of Gilligan's Island.
- JohnDeSando
- Feb 16, 2012
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Journey to the Mysterious Island
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $79,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $103,887,748
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $27,335,363
- Feb 12, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $335,288,576
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1