Following up Journey to the Center of the Earth from 2008, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a lackluster family adventure which altogether fails to recognize what made the original successful. Taking a storyline which ranges from preposterously over-the-top to extremely predictable, the film fails to infuse any life into the proceedings outside of a few moments of entertainment.

Picking back up the storyline several years after the events in Journey to the Center of the Earth, the first not...
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