ctomvelu1 Barely a movie, this version of Jules Verne's classic tale has a bunch of alleged female soldiers, who look more like a bunch of college babes attired in wife-beaters, accidentally transported to the center of the Earth. Only the center of the Earth looks remarkably like Hawaii. A rescue team is sent after them, manned by Greg "Me and the Bear" Evigan, who somehow got very old overnight. A T-Rex shows up to keep the girls on their toes, along with a very large spider. But we spend way too much time in the girls' company, listening to their inane chatter(some of which appears to have been later looped) and watching their uniformly bad acting. A little girl-on-girl action or shirt doffing might have helped. Alas, we get neither. A little comedy also might have helped. Alas, the movie is played dead-serious. This truly is as close to a non-movie as I am yet to see at age 60.

Paul Andrews Journey to the Center of the Earth starts as six hard as nails teenage female marines are selected for some top secret US Army experiment, using a particle transporter of some sort they are being beamed instantly from a location in California to Stuttgart in Germany through the center of the Earth for reasons never explained. Unfortunately things go wrong & instead of just passing through the center of the Earth the six feisty females are actually dumped there & find themselves in what looks like some woods where prehistoric creatures roam. With no weapons for protection, no beacon to get back home or even a radio to make contact & trapped 600Km underground being stalked by giant Spider's & T-Rex's things look bleak for our girls. That is unless project leader Joseph Harnet (Greg Evigan) can mount a daring rescue mission & save his girls...Also known as Journey to Middle Earth here in the UK on DVD (to cash in on Lord of the Rings maybe?) this low budget 'Mockbuster' was directed by David Jones & Scott Wheeler & the only reason The Asylum made this production of Jules Verne's classic novel Journey to the Center of the Earth was because of the big budget rather fun & hugely successful (although the makers of this didn't know how successful it was going to be when they made this as both were released around the same time, in fact this Journey to the Center of the Earth was release about a week earlier than the Hollywood 3-D one) version made by Hollywood in 3-D staring Brendan Fraser that I can assure you is infinitely better than this sorry excuse for a rip-off. Out of the eleven comments on the IMDb so far (obviously the number will increase over time) only three rate Joureny to the Center of the Earth higher than either one or two stars & no-one has dared give it more than a paltry four so far which just about says it all really, I simply cannot see any normal sane person enjoying this film at all. It is that bad. Do you want to see a Dinosaur attack where you don't actually see the Dinosaur at all? Well, it happens here. Do you want to see a film where the might of the US military can only conjure up six feeble teenage girls to take part in an experiment that could literally change the way we live? Do you want to see a film where only one person dies on screen? Do you want to see a film that makes no logical sense? I mean if they are stuck 600Km under the Erath's surface where is the clear bright sunlight coming from? Why is there a mix of factual Dinosaur's like a T-Rex & the purely fictional like the giant Spider's? Do you want to see a film where it is possible to dig through 600Km of Earth in an hour or two? Seriously Journey to the Center of the Earth is a mess from start to finish with awful character's that feel out of place, terrible dialogue, a main plot which consists of these girly soldiers walking through what looks like a normal wood trying to avoid Dinosaur's which we barely even see & a horrible happily ever after sickly sweet style ending that just adds insult to injury & the final twist shot leaves the door open for a possible sequel which sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it. Terrible, simple as that.Although there are barely any effect in it I must admit that the CGI work is the best I have seen in a film from The Asylum thus far with a reasonable looking T-Rex & a half decent giant Spider at the end. Don't get me wrong they still look poor but by the usual standards of The Asylum they are an improvement but that in itself really isn't saying much. There is one fairly gory shot at the end when someone's stomach explodes which really sticks out because apart from that one shot there isn't any blood, gore or violence elsewhere at all. The film looks cheap, the center of the Earth bits are supposed to hold a sense of wonder & look alien but here these scenes look like any old wood was used.The budget was probably none existent, this has a really cheap made-for-telly look about that even the Sci-Fi Channel would be embarrassed about. The acting is generally poor, Greg Evigan is awful while his daughter Vanessa Lee Evigan plays one of the soldiers. The one bright spark in this terrible film is Dedee Pfeiffer (yes, Michelle Pfeiffer's sister) who puts in a fun performance & still looks quite good despite being the wrong side of forty.Journey to the Center of the Earth is a terrible rip-off 'Mockbuster' made by rip-off specialists The Asylum to shamelessly cash-in on the big budget Hollywood version released around the same time. Definitely one to avoid. There has been at least nine filmed adaptations of Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth & while I haven't seen them all I can quite confidently say this is probably the worst.

RONALD B. RAFF (herbstnebel2ss) Had I known this film was made by The Asylum, I would have passed it by. The plot, if you can call it that, was ripped off from "The Core" and "Star Trek". It concerns a teleportation devise that instead of sending it's passengers to Stuttgart, Germany, lands them in the center of the Earth. The remainder of the film involves the feeble and unbelievable rescue attempt, which isn't even worth discussing. The sets were totally unconvincing, as in various scenes a blue sky, clouds and even the Sun are visible. Indoor scenes were obviously filmed inside a warehouse and the special effects are pathetic even by 1950's standards. As for the script, I've seen more creative writing on the walls of public bathrooms. The producers had to really try hard to assemble a cast as talentless as this one. Better performances have been exhibited by corpses. The scantily clad females run around in sheer panic while the males try to appear robust and masculine, but fail miserably. If you suffer from insomnia definitely rent this film, if you want to be entertained, rent the original with James Mason.

trahkrub For a bunch of professional female soldiers these were less qualified than a bunch of Playboy Bunnies. The acting was as awful, as well as the special effects.The technical advisers were probably recruited from the fourth grade of an elementary school. For a place where light came from an evenly illuminated sky the shadows were remarkably sharp. The effects of the vastly increased atmospheric pressure that would be encountered were non-existent. These are only a couple of the technical problems. I think I have seen worse movies but the only one comes to mind was Killer Klowns from Outer Space.This movie has absolutely no similarity to other movies of the same name although some of them were a bit lacking.