BRENDAN FRASER - MOVIE REVIEWS: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

MOVIE REVIEWS: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

Critics are suggesting that Journey to the Center of the Earth , starring Brendan Fraser, is as much a ride as it is a movie and that it should definitely be seen in 3-D. "Keep the lid on your Pepsi: You'll be doing some jumping," advises Rafer Guzmán in Newsday. Joe Morgenstern observes in the Wall Street Journal , "3D movies have an ironclad obligation to scare the audience with water squirted from hoses or tossed from buckets, and this one observes the convention with a vengeance." Lou Lumenick of the New York Post calls it "the most entertaining 3-D movie I've ever seen." And Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune describes it as "reassuringly cheesy and wholly enjoyable." But several critics advise that, in the end, it's really a movie for kids. Roger Ebert comments in the Chicago Sun-Times : "There may not be an 8-year-old alive who would not love it. If I had seen it when I was 8, I would have remembered it with deep affection for all these years, until I saw it again and realized how little I really knew at that age."

11/07/2008