Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) on Netflix
PG20081h 33mActionAdventureFamily
Volcanologist Trevor Anderson brings his nephew Sean to Iceland to trace Sean's missing father. Guide Hannah Ásgeirsson leads them up a mountain, where a storm forces them into a cave.
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- Rotten Tomatoes59%
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Plot summary
Trevor Anderson is a Boston volcanologist whose brother Max vanished ten years ago. His 13-year-old nephew Sean arrives for a ten-day stay while Sean's mother Elizabeth prepares a move to Canada, and she leaves Trevor a box of Max's belongings. In it Trevor finds a copy of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth filled with Max's notes, and he decides to retrace his brother's route to Iceland, taking Sean along. There they meet Hannah Ásgeirsson, whose father Sigurbjörn has died; she tells them both men believed Verne's books were true accounts. She guides them up a mountain toward an instrument that has begun transmitting data again, and a lightning storm drives the three into a cave.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The computer graphics were produced by the Canadian company Meteor Studios, which declared bankruptcy immediately after finishing work on the film, leaving employees and freelancers unpaid after three months of postponed paychecks; after a lawsuit and the direct intervention of Brendan Fraser they settled for 70% of what was owed.
- The film introduced the 4DX movie format in a specially designed cinema in Seoul, South Korea, using tilting seats and other effects to convey motion, wind, sprays of water and sharp air, probe lights to mimic lightning, fog, scents and other theatrical special effects.
- Warner Bros. marketed the film like a theme park attraction, but had to tweak the campaign, including dropping "3D" from the title, when it became clear the film would be shown in 3-D in far fewer theaters than anticipated.
- Journey to the Center of the Earth 4-D Adventure is a 15-minute 4D film shown at 4D theaters around the world, retelling the condensed story with 3D projection and sensory effects including moving seats, wind, mist and scents; it premiered in 2009.
