Journey to the Center of the Earth

This movie shames the original and takes script-writing to an all-time low. Some of the effects were interesting, but the dialog was so bad and the characters so stereotyped, I couldn't finish watching it. 35 minutes was all I could tolerate.

Unless you enjoy really bad movies, avoid this one entirely.

I've seen many, many movies in my time. Many were very good, and many were very bad. Then there was "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Of all the films I've seen in my 21½ years of existence, I've chosen "Journey..." as the worst that I have ever seen. Okay so it was a TV movie. But still, a mess of a picture like this shouldn't be allowed to waste people's time like it did. It aired 6 years ago (on NBC) and it still lingers in my mind of how distasteful and laughably silly it was. Poor F. Murray Abraham. He went from winning an Oscar to landing a brief supporting role here. Also, I am currently trying to get "Journey..." on the IMDb "bottom 100 movies" list. Please, if you could help, vote for this film, even if you haven't seen it, and give it the biggest 1 you've ever given in your life! Please??

Really from 1993?! The special effects indicate that it could be an end of 60's movie. Awful creatures. Bad "Drilling machine" that look like some enormous Phallus. The evil fish looks like some candy children eat, and the worst of all must be the effect/spiral they use to go from one scene to another. This guy should never be allowed to make any movies, unless it was meant as some bad joke.

complete turd, as someone already said the characters are _incredibly_ stereotyped. just WHY did they have to throw all events that made the book original and interesting out the window - and replace it with ideas they stole from a todler at a nursery.

The only thing really surprising to me was that it was filmed in the Nineties and not thirty or forty years earlier. It was quite reminiscent of the films I used to sneak into the neighborhood theater to see on Saturday afternoon. Lots of action, outlandish characters, unbelievable situations and even cheesy swirling scene changes. It doesn't seem to pretend to be anything but what it is, and what it is is not bad,for what it is.