Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

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Released Feb 10, 2012

1h 34m

Adventure

Fantasy

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Now 17, Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from an island where none should exist. Knowing that he will not be able to dissuade Sean from tracking the signal to its source, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), Sean's new stepfather, joins the teen on a quest to the South Pacific. Together with helicopter pilot Gabato (Luis Guzmán) and Gabato's feisty daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island and rescue its sole human inhabitant (Michael Caine).

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Critics Consensus

Aggressively unambitious, Journey 2 might thrill tween viewers, but most others will find it too intense for young audiences and too cartoonishly dull for adults.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

It's all a bit silly. But Journey 2 does have the uncomplicated charm of those ancient mid-budget epics in which Doug McClure narrowly avoided being eaten by Pterodactyls.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 19, 2012

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Leonard Maltin

indieWire

The visual effects are as artificial as the genially preposterous story, but the movie is all in fun, and painless for grownups.

Mar 1, 2012

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

There's very little Verne left in this adaptation, and the nebulous way they connect him to Jonathan Swift and Robert Louis Stevenson is tenuous to say the least.

Rated: 2/4

Feb 12, 2012

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Iván Kazi

EscribiendoCine

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island immediately recognizes its audience and, fully accepting its constraints, pleases them with its fabulous drive and its intrinsic linearity. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 6/10

Jun 22, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

There’s nothing about this family-friendly movie that’s outrageously offensive, but there’s nothing about it that’s particularly interesting, well-executed, or inventively conceived either.

Rated: 2/4

Feb 22, 2023

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...entertaining yet chintzy...

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 5, 2020

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E4123

It’s as entertaining as all the other adventure movies that follow exactly the same formula, although this one is a bit too ridiculous to take seriously.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/29/24

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Idan Charles L

Not as good as the first one tbh

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/15/24

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Ethan G

Johnson looks bored, Hutcherson is trying his best, Hudgens has barely anything to work with, Guzmán has absolutely nothing to work with and Caine has no idea what he's doing in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island", a lousy adventure film with no direction or understanding of what it's supposed to be.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/24/24

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Spike G

Meh it passed the time so true

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/06/24

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Lucero D

No puedo creer que odié más la actuación de Vanessa Hudgens que el CGI de esta película

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/24

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BRENDEN J

This movie had nice visuals/SFX. The Rock delivers the same Cappola performance which was just sad to see.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/13/24

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Synopsis

Now 17, Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from an island where none should exist. Knowing that he will not be able to dissuade Sean from tracking the signal to its source, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), Sean's new stepfather, joins the teen on a quest to the South Pacific. Together with helicopter pilot Gabato (Luis Guzmán) and Gabato's feisty daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island and rescue its sole human inhabitant (Michael Caine).

Director: Brad Peyton
Producer: Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Charlotte Huggins
Screenwriter: Brian Gunn, Mark Gunn
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Contrafilm
Rating: PG (Some Adventure Action|Brief Mild Language)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 10, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 15, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $103.8M
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

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