Wonder-Con! Journey to the Center of Poo!

By George 'El Guapo' Roush on February 23, 2008

I saw some scenes last night of the upcoming Brendan Fraser movie Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3-D. Brendan came out to the audience (stoned and/or drunk out of his mind) and introduced the clips. He said this is the first time footage is being shown to anyone and that it will "Blow your mind!" Oh, it blew all right.

I guess the story is he, his son and what may be his girlfriend or babysitter or some chick he picked up at Starbucks, fall down a pit and end up at the center of the earth.

The entire movie is in 3-D. The technology is the same used in films like Meet the Robinsons when it was shown in 3-D.

The was a scene where the three are stuck in a mine cart as it flies down the track at insane speeds. We see the cart jump off one section of the track and onto another section. The 3-D worked well in this scene, but that's not saying too much.

Another scene was Brendan fighting a big Venus Fly Trap plant. Its vines are choking his woman and he punches and kicks the plant until it releases her. What was the kicker of this scene was him walking away, the plant rising up behind him and he casually swings his arm up and back fists the plant and knocks it out. Bad bad bad.

Another scene is the trio are on a raft fighting giant piranha like fish that are jumping out of the water at them trying to bite them. So he and his son grab sticks and start hitting the fish like they're baseballs. He even asks his son if he knows how to pitch hit before tossing a fish at his son who hits it. All of this of course, in wondrous 3-D. So almost  every fish has to fly towards the screen.

Another scene is his son running from a T-Rex. He runs into a cave and Brendan is on the outside of the cave wall, hears his son and breaks thru the wall and retrieves him.

This movie looks just...bad. Hopefully as a whole it will be pretty good, but the 3-D imagery was not that impressive. Not after seeing the 3-D that was done in Beowulf.

Source:Latino Review