• Genre: Action/Adventure, Family, SciFi/Fantasy
  • Release Date: 07/11/2008
  • Running Time: 92 mins
  • Director: Eric Brevig
  • Cast: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem
  • Producer: Charlotte Huggins, Beau Flynn
  • Writer: Paul Chart, D.V. DeVincentis
  • Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Offical Site: Click Here
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 29.0 million, 29.0 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. Eagle Eye, 17.7 million, 54.6 million
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  6. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, 12.0 million, 12.0 million
  7. Nights in Rodanthe, 7.4 million, 25.1 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Appaloosa, 5.0 million, 5.6 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Lakeview Terrace, 4.5 million, 32.1 million
  13. Burn After Reading, 4.1 million, 51.6 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Fireproof, 4.1 million, 12.5 million
  17. An American Carol, 3.8 million, 3.8 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Religulous, 3.5 million, 3.5 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Let’s be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It’s a decent, if overly familiar and yawningly obvious compendium of look-at-me moments intended to show off the latest and greatest in stereo 3D filmmaking, in which the same thing’s shot twice, more or less merged into a blurry single image and rendered almost-kinda-sorta-not-really lifelike through the polarized shades of the RealD glasses you get to wear (and keep!). Brendan Fraser, who’s played against green screens for so long he’s forgotten how to relate to people, is Trevor Anderson, a disheveled science professor nursing an invisible ache for a brother who died looking for the center of the earth. Fraser marches from one scene to the next till, whoops, that’s a mighty deep hole. Directed by Eric Brevig, the movie takes its time arriving at the earth’s core and then rushes to escape from it, almost in embarrassment. There’s good reason not to linger downtown: All the filmmakers summon from their collective imagination is a dingier version of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory; episodes of Land of the Lost were more inspired. The mine-train ride, nicked almost rail for rail from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, provides a bit of a mid-movie kick, but Journey pretty much climaxes before it even penetrates. — Robert Wilonsky

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