Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

PG

Released Feb 10, 2012

1 hr. 34 min.

Adventure

Fantasy

List

45%

133 Reviews

Tomatometer

59%

100,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

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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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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Audience Member

pretty exciting stuff! its great for the whole family to enjoy the visuals are vibrant, lush and outstanding and you gotta see it in 3D just for the spectacle involving giant lizards, giant birds, centipedes, spiders and bees theres some interesting family dynamics goin on here however brief it is Vanessa Hudgens is awesome as always and Josh Hutcherson gets to become his own the action sequences are shot phenomenonally, too I think the script could have been tightened a little more but the kids will certainly enjoy the mindless, CGI fest and adventure-esque feel and Luiz Guzman is hilarious as comic relief I think the ending was a bit of a downfall though cause its making me worry how they're gonna tackle the next story by Jules Verne who knows....

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/24

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Isaac S

dumbest movie I've ever seen, CGI is terrible and the plot makes no sense... no point in watching

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/24

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Brad Peyton

Director

Dwayne Johnson

Hank

Michael Caine

Alexander

Josh Hutcherson

Sean

Vanessa Hudgens

Kailani

Kristin Davis

Liz

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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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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
Executive Producer: Richard Brener, Michael Disco, Samuel J. Brown, Marcus Viscidi, Michael Bostick, Evan Turner
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
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

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