Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 Video) User Reviews

An all-female version ... and teleportation!

[Vic_max · 4/10 · 10 February 2009]

By every account this is a terribly bad movie. Why do I give it so many stars (well, 4 out 10)? Because the cheese factor kind of works in it's favor ... for me. It's got some sort of sick charm that appeals to 1 out of every 50 people and I guess I'm that 1 person.

Given that in 2008, 2 other Journey to the Center of the Earth movies were made (one Theatrical, one for the Hallmark TV channel) ... what spin could this one take? An all-female cast for starters (well, there is one slightly older middle-aged guy present, but he doesn't count), and teleportation to add a little novelty.

Here's the setup: a military team of women are using a relatively new teleportation machine to zip over to Germany. Their path takes them through the center of the Earth (well, only 600km deep) ... and something goes wrong and they get stuck in said location. The hot female scientist who designed the machine is now just finished work on a nuclear-powered, laser-blasting deep digging machine. This is what's used to rescue the lost women.

Part of the cheese factor for me is that in spite of a low budget, ridiculous cast and idea and clear special effects goofs (I don't think we're meant to see clouds underground) ... everyone in the movie tries to be serious. The result is a kind of offbeat amusement. In fact, I'm actually pretty impressed that the film makers didn't go the "T&A" route; the girl with the lip-ring in the beginning almost gets you thinking otherwise.

Anyway, I do not recommend watching this movie. However, if you believe that you may happen to like knucklehead adaptations of "Journey to the ..." movies, then by all means check it out. I kind of liked it.

It's like it was produced by Dr Jkyll and Mr Hyde

[rlange-3 · 4/10 · 18 July 2008]

(Note that there are two movies out right now with the same name. The other Journey is getting much better reviews. This is a review of the one starring Greg Evigan, not the one starring Brendon Fraser.) It seems that parts of this movie made a major effort toward producing a film that was passably entertaining and well thought out. But these were juxtaposed with segments which were full of nonsensical dialog, unrealistic actions, and atrocious acting. The end result is a bit schizoid, and could never be called a good movie though I wouldn't quite pan it to a 1.

Any attempt at a plot which involves people visiting a world deep underground has a major uphill haul to get the audience to suspend disbelief. This movie is neither better nor worse than others using the plot formula and in fact is quite a bit better than the utterly preposterous "The Core". At least Journey tries in that regard.

But there are jarringly disappointing elements as well. The acting, particularly of Mr. Evigan, is stunningly bad. He seems more like a frat boy who never matured than a project director. One of the key techs (and there are only a handful of them) looks like central casting sent over a stereotype Goth, not a stereotype Geologist. The "soldiers" are all minor babes who spend as much time fighting over trivia as cooperating as a team. The glowering general in nondescript dress is so stereotyped as to be inadvertent comic relief.

Plot holes are opened big enough to swallow the firmament. One of the leads laments the fact that they can't fit in six people in their rescue conveyance, but the view inside shows they could easily fit 25. There is a conversation about finding a landmark that two parties can meet at, and the object is said to be "too big to be a volcano". Volcanos can of course be quite huge. But it turns out to be a volcano after all so they just agree to "meet there". This would be like saying "meet me at Mt Ranier". OK, where exactly at Mt Ranier? Oops, wait, when we actually see what was "too big to be a volcano" it's a tiny hillock. oh well.

Here's the highly qualified professional soldiers in the field, assessing their status: "How's the ammo situation, cause I'm tapped out?" Ans: "Not good". "Then we need to get out of here". One might have expected a little more quantitative emphasis on ammo but no such luck. This is fairly typical of the kind of dialog and actions of what we are told repeatedly is an elite unit. Unlikely.

The CGI of the various critters is not horrible but hardly great. They are not up to Jurassic Park standards but well ahead of the original King Kong.

Barely passable lazy day entertainment.

Oh dear

[neil-476 · 4/10 · 12 October 2012]

When a film is quite a good idea, it is a shame to see it executed badly. The idea behind this movie is a decent variation on Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but the film itself is laughably bad (and, from the timing, deliberately intended to cash in on the Brendan Fraser version).

There is so much wrong with this film that it is pointless (not to mention impossible) to list it all, but topping the list is the key mistake made with the original concept. The idea of having a bunch of hot chick soldiers in tight combat vests accidentally teleported to the centre of the earth - yes, I like it. But let's focus on that word "soldiers". Not "silly high school seniors", note, but "soldiers" ie. highly trained, well disciplined, resourceful and, yes, hard etc.. You never for a second believe that these silly twittery girls are soldiers.

Oh, and the acting is bad, except for Jason S Gray as General Marks, who is truly abominable.

Wow... that was...uh... awful!

[jackandsami · 1/10 · 18 September 2008]

I don't usually post... but had to on this one. I'm guessing the marketing pitch went something like this, "Okay... we release this piece of roughly cobbled together footage from the cut-room floor from an old sci-fi flick that was killed for good reason 20 years ago at the exact same time as Brenden Frazier's 'Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3-D', call it by the exact same name and hope nobody notices. Who wants in?!" My wife kept jokingly asking, "Is this a 'Sweded' version of a 'real' movie?" (see "Be Kind, Rewind" for concept of "Sweding"). Honestly. An all female combat unit who is neither on a combat mission nor behave like soldiers. Poor whip-cams and badly edited cut scenes. Special "ship effects" that have repeat-cells (remember Scooby-Doo cartoons? Remember how the background kept "repeating" when the gang would run down a hallway). Horrific dialogue, audio mixing (it was like watching old Kung-Fu movies... lip flaps don't match the dialogue... crap, the Japanese Anime we watch does a better job than THIS movie did!), acting, direction, photography...honestly, the only thing even remotely redeeming was the lame attempt to give Homage to Aliens (pirated dialogue "Hey... you look just like i feel...", an easily identifiable "Hudson", and even a gratuitous "chest bursting" concept), which would have been mildly funny if it wasn't attempting to take itself seriously.

Plan 9 From Underground

[norm_anderson · 1/10 · 26 December 2008]

First, a single-word summary-- Unwatchable.

As I watched this film, I couldn't shake the impression that this may have been some group's first attempt at making a movie, with actors, crew, and technicians who are still learning their craft. The premise is intriguing, but of all the attempts to bring Jules Verne's 1864 novel to the screen, this one may be the worst of the lot. I am as willing as anyone to suspend my disbelief and hang on for the ride, if the story is well-told; but the wooden acting, preposterous dialog, cheesy special-effects, and overall lack of focus and discipline added up to a rather grueling hour and a half, that felt like six hours. If they were still making episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, this turkey would be ripe for a good basting.

Don't watch this under any circumstances!

[TV_Ken · 1/10 · 3 December 2011]

I was sick in bed and needed something to watch. This made me sicker.

Some of the very worst acting and script I have ever seen. Your time would be better spent watching paint dry.

The plot makes no sense.

The special effects were the least special I have ever seen.

This is a waste of my time writing this review, but I have to write enough to save some other poor sole from having to endure the fiasco of a movie.

It starts with an all girl team of soldiers with no explanation of why there are no men. I suspect it was hard finding men to appear in this movie. One of the girls thinks they will not be taken seriously by people at the destination if they are not in full battle gear. This is the only line in the movie that makes sense.

bad journey to earth's center

[froberts73 · 1/10 · 24 January 2011]

Some reviewers felt this mess was fun. Jeez. Their taste is in their mouth. This bore about boring to the center of the earth must have had Jules Verne spinning wildly in his grave. I found it at Wal-Mart and would love to get my $5 back. It is doubled with 100 Million BC, also with Greg Evigan. I enjoyed some of the '50s-60s schlock. They were fun. This was a ripoff. Less than 5 minutes of looking at a sick dinosaur with vocal cords, and a few minutes of a spider with gland problems, both phonier than Ma Bell. One more thing, the music was an outright steal from Phillip Glass. Action? None. It was talk-talk-talk, and stupid talk-talk-talk at that. The picture on the box has this really mean looking dinosaur. Evidently, he was cut out of the movie. Fred Flintstone's Dino was far more convincing. It is advertised as a Maximum Movie Experience. They should be sued for false advertising. The girls were good looking and a couple of them could be classified as actresses. Appearing in this piece of junk is no way to further a career. Does Michelle have any words of advice for her sister --- like----keep away from this tripe? You get the picture. Don't get this picture.

SAVE YOURSELF and go do dishes instead of watching this

[kiawa77 · 1/10 · 7 February 2009]

OMG who pieced this pile of dung together? My husband and I make a practice of watching these awful SCI-FI movies for comic relief, and this was one of the worst (most laughable) yet. I understand this is science fiction, but goes way beyond believable. First of all, that group of "soldiers" acts more like a bunch of sorority chicks throughout the entire movie than a military unit. Second, my hand-held GPS loses signal when I go into a parking garage... how does their radio manage to work 600 kilometers underground? Third, I've seen foreign cartoons with better voice-overs than this. Fourth, the scientist lady says she can't fit 6 folks in her drilling unit, but it looks like she has room for 10! There are holes in this movie a mile wide. Or maybe just one big hole 600 kilometers deep...

Don't make the mistake of getting this instead of the Branden Fraser version. I don't know how these people got away with making this cruddy flick with the same name about the same thing in such a horrible way. It's basically one step up from you filming plastic dinosaurs and Barbie dolls in your yard with a camcorder. In fact, that'd probably be more interesting!

Cheap as chips

[lazyaceuk · 2/10 · 29 June 2009]

I usually get irritated when people give up on a film after less than a handful of minutes. Many a film will take a while to cook and a lot of hidden gems have been missed because people gave up on them too early.

It could well be that 'Journey...' will be that film for me. It was awful and I gave in after about ten minutes. And that includes time for the credits.

The camera work was poor, the acting was like a school play and the dialogue made day time soaps seem like Shakespeare.

I know actors have to pay bills, but they should at least do a decent day's work.

Fortunately I rented this, so it didn't hurt the bank too much and I got to hand it back.

AVOID !!!!

Journey to the Center of Boredom and Fun

[styujio · 5/10 · 21 January 2012]

I purposely bought this DVD as I'm a fan of low-budget movies. This Journey to the Center of the Earth is an attempt to cash-in on the blockbuster film starring Brendan Fraser.

This movie copies a few elements from the blockbuster, such as a T-Rex and man-eating plants. The script is alright and a little thrilling, but the performances and the visual effects stink.(obviously) So... Greg Evigan and Dedee Pfeiffer are an ex couple scientist who travel in a driller that resembles the Iron Mole from 'At the Earth's Core' for about half an hour of the whole movie to rescue a group of six FEMALE soldiers(??!!) who are accidentally teleported into the center of the earth when they are suppose to be in Germany. In there, the FEMALE soldiers(??!!) encounter man-eating T-Rexes, a swarm of giant alien-looking spiders, carnivorous snapping plants and other dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. The acting is atrocious, the editing is really bad(For instance, the scene of the plants only lasted about 30 mins!! Then the show another scene, which is confusing due to the horrible editing) but the special visual effects are mediocre. The T-Rex scenes was kinda disappointing as they only appear in the first parts of the film and not the climax.

Overall, the script is bad but still has enough fight scenes. The giant creature scenes are action-packed too. I do not really recommend this film but if you're a true low-budget movie fan, go for it

"We're not in Stuttgart"

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 1 August 2013]

As Bob Hope would have put it comparing this Journey To The Center Of The Earth to the one I saw as a lad with James Mason, Arlene Dahl, and Pat Boone would be like comparing filet mignon to hog's livers. It doesn't even stand up that well to the one that got a big screen release that starred Brendan Fraser in the same year.

This has to be way in the future because what happens to six women who are transported the way the transporter works on Star Trek deep under the center of the Earth to a prehistoric world. Now if they had asked Montgomery Scott of the starship Enterprise they would have been told that transporting through solid rock could be dangerous. The idea here was to go to the USA to Stuttgart, Germany through the earth.

Well six GI Janes get stuck there and it's up to Greg Evigan and Deedee Pheiffer to rescue them from T-Rex's, giant spider's, poison and carnivorous plants, et al.

Watching this made me appreciate how good James Mason was.

One word, awful.

[rmurphy7 · 1/10 · 11 November 2008]

So I went to the store to pick up a movie, and decided on this one, thinking it was the SAME TITLE with Brendan Fraser. This was like watching a bad all male adult film, "The girls never came!" But in this case, Brendan Fraser never came. Throughout the entire (horrible) opening sequence I was contemplating returning the movie, but I decided to sit it out. A failed military operation puts six female soldiers far underground, and somehow they can maintain radio contact through 600 kilometers of solid rock, lead, and molten lava. They then decide to drill down into the earth to rescue the team. As the team battles harsh conditions, and even dinosaurs, the (2 man) drill team encounters problems of their own. Every few minutes there was another thing that bothered me, even made me sigh in disgust. The horrible acting alone was enough to persuade me to return the movie, but even worse was the sound quality. At times it even seemed the voices were dubbed over with different lines, the lip movement doesn't even match. Horrible dialogue, and awful special effects make this one of THE WORST movies I have ever seen... Horribly unsatisfied, I would never recommend this movie to anyone. 1/10 Don't waste your time.

A travesty of "film making".

[herbstnebel2ss · 1/10 · 21 April 2009]

Had I known this film was made by The Asylum, I would have passed it by. The plot, if you can call it that, was ripped off from "The Core" and "Star Trek". It concerns a teleportation devise that instead of sending it's passengers to Stuttgart, Germany, lands them in the center of the Earth. The remainder of the film involves the feeble and unbelievable rescue attempt, which isn't even worth discussing. The sets were totally unconvincing, as in various scenes a blue sky, clouds and even the Sun are visible. Indoor scenes were obviously filmed inside a warehouse and the special effects are pathetic even by 1950's standards. As for the script, I've seen more creative writing on the walls of public bathrooms. The producers had to really try hard to assemble a cast as talentless as this one. Better performances have been exhibited by corpses. The scantily clad females run around in sheer panic while the males try to appear robust and masculine, but fail miserably. If you suffer from insomnia definitely rent this film, if you want to be entertained, rent the original with James Mason.

"We aren't in Germany." Another terrible 'Mockbuster' from The Asylum.

[poolandrews · 2/10 · 8 June 2009]

Journey to the Center of the Earth starts as six hard as nails teenage female marines are selected for some top secret US Army experiment, using a particle transporter of some sort they are being beamed instantly from a location in California to Stuttgart in Germany through the center of the Earth for reasons never explained. Unfortunately things go wrong & instead of just passing through the center of the Earth the six feisty females are actually dumped there & find themselves in what looks like some woods where prehistoric creatures roam. With no weapons for protection, no beacon to get back home or even a radio to make contact & trapped 600Km underground being stalked by giant Spider's & T-Rex's things look bleak for our girls. That is unless project leader Joseph Harnet (Greg Evigan) can mount a daring rescue mission & save his girls...

Also known as Journey to Middle Earth here in the UK on DVD (to cash in on Lord of the Rings maybe?) this low budget 'Mockbuster' was directed by David Jones & Scott Wheeler & the only reason The Asylum made this production of Jules Verne's classic novel Journey to the Center of the Earth was because of the big budget rather fun & hugely successful (although the makers of this didn't know how successful it was going to be when they made this as both were released around the same time, in fact this Journey to the Center of the Earth was release about a week earlier than the Hollywood 3-D one) version made by Hollywood in 3-D staring Brendan Fraser that I can assure you is infinitely better than this sorry excuse for a rip-off. Out of the eleven comments on the IMDb so far (obviously the number will increase over time) only three rate Joureny to the Center of the Earth higher than either one or two stars & no-one has dared give it more than a paltry four so far which just about says it all really, I simply cannot see any normal sane person enjoying this film at all. It is that bad. Do you want to see a Dinosaur attack where you don't actually see the Dinosaur at all? Well, it happens here. Do you want to see a film where the might of the US military can only conjure up six feeble teenage girls to take part in an experiment that could literally change the way we live? Do you want to see a film where only one person dies on screen? Do you want to see a film that makes no logical sense? I mean if they are stuck 600Km under the Erath's surface where is the clear bright sunlight coming from? Why is there a mix of factual Dinosaur's like a T-Rex & the purely fictional like the giant Spider's? Do you want to see a film where it is possible to dig through 600Km of Earth in an hour or two? Seriously Journey to the Center of the Earth is a mess from start to finish with awful character's that feel out of place, terrible dialogue, a main plot which consists of these girly soldiers walking through what looks like a normal wood trying to avoid Dinosaur's which we barely even see & a horrible happily ever after sickly sweet style ending that just adds insult to injury & the final twist shot leaves the door open for a possible sequel which sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it. Terrible, simple as that.

Although there are barely any effect in it I must admit that the CGI work is the best I have seen in a film from The Asylum thus far with a reasonable looking T-Rex & a half decent giant Spider at the end. Don't get me wrong they still look poor but by the usual standards of The Asylum they are an improvement but that in itself really isn't saying much. There is one fairly gory shot at the end when someone's stomach explodes which really sticks out because apart from that one shot there isn't any blood, gore or violence elsewhere at all. The film looks cheap, the center of the Earth bits are supposed to hold a sense of wonder & look alien but here these scenes look like any old wood was used.

The budget was probably none existent, this has a really cheap made-for-telly look about that even the Sci-Fi Channel would be embarrassed about. The acting is generally poor, Greg Evigan is awful while his daughter Vanessa Lee Evigan plays one of the soldiers. The one bright spark in this terrible film is Dedee Pfeiffer (yes, Michelle Pfeiffer's sister) who puts in a fun performance & still looks quite good despite being the wrong side of forty.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a terrible rip-off 'Mockbuster' made by rip-off specialists The Asylum to shamelessly cash-in on the big budget Hollywood version released around the same time. Definitely one to avoid. There has been at least nine filmed adaptations of Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth & while I haven't seen them all I can quite confidently say this is probably the worst.

See this as minus ten stars

[kris-gray · 1/10 · 3 October 2018]

Seriously? Can the ancestors of Jules Verne sue? I hope so.

I also gave up after 15 minutes, I mean first of all I thought it was going to be the feminist version but no, it's the perverts version. A group of all female military(yes all female, I live for the day women go into battle en mass) saddle up with just a gun and little else wearing just a T shirt (you don't see male military doing that?)

I didn't hang around to see if any shirts came off, who cares? And since when would there be blue sky and clouds 600K inside the earth? Maybe that gets explained later in the film but I didn't care enough to hang around to find out.

I doubt you would either.

Take off the shirts!

[ctomvelu1 · 1/10 · 31 July 2010]

Barely a movie, this version of Jules Verne's classic tale has a bunch of alleged female soldiers, who look more like a bunch of college babes attired in wife-beaters, accidentally transported to the center of the Earth. Only the center of the Earth looks remarkably like Hawaii. A rescue team is sent after them, manned by Greg "Me and the Bear" Evigan, who somehow got very old overnight. A T-Rex shows up to keep the girls on their toes, along with a very large spider. But we spend way too much time in the girls' company, listening to their inane chatter(some of which appears to have been later looped) and watching their uniformly bad acting. A little girl-on-girl action or shirt doffing might have helped. Alas, we get neither. A little comedy also might have helped. Alas, the movie is played dead-serious. This truly is as close to a non-movie as I am yet to see at age 60.

"Where on Earth are We???"

[MartianOctocretr5 · 3/10 · 5 September 2009]

Even below the typical level of Sci-Fi channel stuff. Most of these movies you can laugh at, but this thing barely achieves even camp-level status. It has next to nothing to do with the Jules Verne work, only rips off and defames the title. In fact, everything in this movie is ripped off from somebody else's ideas.

The $7 budget used in this film was only enough to hire some Drama 101 students from a local middle-school. A rag-tag group of Xena-wanna-be's are supposed to go to Germany in a covert mission, using some sort of teleportation device. Would you believe it doesn't work right? Well, they don't materialize inside of solid rock like this movie's writers did; instead, they end up in a south Pacific tropical island paradise. It's the home to a few CGI dinosaurs that actually appear occasionally, usually to roar. There's other Skull island type grotesque creatures scaring our heroines, too.

The group of stereotypes--I mean soldiers include Vilma Dinkley. She examines a pebble, and immediately knows they're 600 kilometers below the surface, under magma. You heard that right: under magma. There's a bully cat-fighter girl, a Barbie cutout doll, and their Camp Fire girls troop leader--I mean, captain. They all look like refugees from an Annette and Frankie beach musical. Scenes involving the tunneling vehicle are even sillier. The scientist and the army guy ride around through magma like they do it every day, making one-liners. The machine emerges from a magma chamber into the Hawaiian set, and shows no signs of even being warm. No smoke, ash, discoloration--nothing.

If somebody sells the DVD of this at a yard sale for 25 cents, it's price gouging.

The vegetable steamer "radio antenna" added a star to my vote

[garyzim · 2/10 · 14 August 2010]

Oh. My. Gosh. This is one embarrassment of a movie. The dialog, the acting, the special effects and props. Bad bad bad.

I would love to know the back story about getting it released. What were they thinking? Maybe someone needed a tax write off. I can't imagine any other reason that it made it past two days of production, and certainly not to release..

When I saw them using a vegetable steamer as a prop radio antenna, I was so amused I added another star, just for the hilarious factor. Oh, and this movie subscribes to the theory that glasses mean you are SMART (even if they are prop glasses with no corrections).

Be sure to read the reviews, which are much more entertaining than the movie. Maybe watch this with friends and do your own Mystery Science Theater 3000 thing. A few margaritas won't hurt. Steam some veggies.

There is no way this film is accidentally this bad.

[jeparham · 1/10 · 22 November 2009]

Things I asked myself while watching this turd:

1. "Why is a military weapons project headquartered in what is obviously a water or waste-water treatment plant?"

2. "Why, if they were simply transporting to Germany, did they have assault rifles with them? And if they thought they needed assault rifles, why didn't they bring lots of ammo?

3. "Why are they all wearing wife-beaters?"

4. "If they were 'professional soldiers', why did the first one to see the T-Rex just start firing her weapon without actually aiming it?"

5. "Why couldn't the spider get to the girl in the hole under the log, when it had obviously placed the "cocooned" soldier there after it had wrapped her up in its web?"

6. "Why, when they found a spider web that 'must have been created by a spider 7 feet in diameter', did they not turn around AND LEAVE"?

7.a "Christa, Christa, it's Emily. Can you hear me?"

7.b "Emily? Is that you?"

8. "Wow.. it was fortunate that someone had the foresight to make it possible to detach the reactor with a single rocker switch so they could jettison it when the magma animal bit into it."

9. "The 'DD' comes out of the volcano in the sky... so why doesn't any magma fall out after it?"

10. "A laser cannon. Seriously? A laser cannon? And from the hip she manages to hit the spider right in the kill spot on the first shot?"

And the acting... yeesh. I expected a lesbian orgy to break out at any moment.

All in all, the best part of this movie was when the silhouette of the baby spider can be seen climbing on their gear... because that was, thankfully, the end of this waste of cellulose.

Wow,Different take on old tale !

[guestar57 · 7/10 · 22 December 2009]

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH theasylum.cc w/ Greg Evigan & Dedee Pfeiffer Sooo, This is a good movie(period). I've enjoyed a lot of films from Theasylum peoples and this one seems to raise the bar, Congrats. The special effects are amazing , Thanks to the co-directors being Special Effects Gods behind Tiny Juggernaut. The cast is really something for a film ,You would have ill-thought guesses about.

Greg Evigan is perfect for his heroic turn and never looked better in action. Dedee Pfeiffer steals the humorous lines with a passion , She could do much more with another script like this one. The two sets we are to believe in worked, The stuff on the burrowing vehicle just plain flowed and the team at Center Of Earth made you not even miss a male touch .

The monsters were strong and REAL, Truly works of art to this Sci-Fi eye !

Wonder women in the land of the lost.

[mark.waltz · 2/10 · 25 January 2021]

Oh yeah, scientists with streaked hair, nose rings and bright purple lipstick, black nail polish, yet surrounded by strong looking military men, yeah, that's believable. Then there's the women who are transported back in time, obviously some of whom hate each other and could easily rip the other ones in half just like the dinosaurs will do to some of them. Yeah, that's the definition of teamwork. Then there's the photography, so close to their face that you can see their pores.

I get more of a thrill out of these films while reading other reviews and watching the film along with it, because that little added aid turns these films from sci-fi disasters into comedies. I'll give the writers credit for making the crew who go back in the past all women, but they are basically just caricatures and really have no difference from the others in the group. That makes them a boring group to try to root for, and ultimately, the computer generated dinosaurs give better performances.

Certainly if Asylum films had delved into other subject matter and moved away from these type of films on occasion, perhaps you would find something different about them, but they all seem to look like the others, as if they were simply being pushed through an assembly line. Monster or snow storm or flying meteor here, arguments between the leading characters there, a villain coming out of nowhere to either try to rob or kill, and lots and lots of pretentious dialog that someone seems to have stolen from a textbook or made up out of their head and stressed as some sort of truth. That formula is tired, and 20 minutes into this one, I just kept fast forwarding until the next dino attack.

Idea was okay, but very badly done

[clightowler · 3/10 · 19 April 2022]

The 'science' in this movie would have been okay in the 1960s. I wonder if they actually had any technical advisors.

The only good thing about this movie was the fact that it passed the Bechdel Test , which is difficult to find, especially in Sci-fi. Pity it was so badly done.

Awful, terrible...And yet

[patten5 · 2/10 · 19 December 2008]

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen and yet it has a certain Plan 9ish appeal to it. It has beautiful actors, nice scenery and decent special effects. Unfortunately it lacks two things absolutely vital to production values: T and A. All you get is a little cleavage. And yes, this movie commits one nearly unforgivable sin-the use and re-use of footage. Oh that irritates me! I wanted to trap a bunch of people in a locked room, give them potent psychedelics and watch their reactions to this movie. Half would try to tear their eyes out but the other half would be laughing hysterically. Mr. Evigan looks great for fifty five, eh? How does he keep those teeth so shiny?

Genre flick

[AngielK · 2/10 · 8 February 2009]

If you absolutely loved 1 Million Years B.C. (from 1966), Barbarella and Superman III then this - for moments at a time - might hold your attention. Actually I was pretty surprised when I read through the cast member profiles... surprised that most of them actually have resumes and not adult industry oriented; oh well, any work that pays money is better than no work. This movie is easy to watch when you have other things to do at the same time... no plot surprises, perfectly predictable, sappy dialog and a lot of shots of somewhat busty, sweat-covered girls walking/running around in skimpy shirts.

The drilling machine looked a lot like a toy hanging from a string, but seriously you can barely even see the string.

Hey - it is funny in a lot of places although that was apparently not intentional. It definitely doesn't rank up there with Return of the Killer Tomatoes.

Clouds!?! And blue sky? 600 km below the surface!

[DewClaw · 3/10 · 21 March 2009]

Maybe I expect just a little too much science in my science fiction, particularly as we are in the 21st century. Light, sure, some sort of rock phosphorescence or plasma glow, but clouds? I think patten5, however, pointed out what is really missing in this film; if the team had shed their black bras (except for the Captain who wears flesh-tone) early in the movie, it would have held MY attention better. (Okay, okay, I'm a sexist pig, but aren't women in skimpy clothing de rigeur for cheesy SF?) So, what do we have here? For one thing, a movie that has no shame in ripping off just about anything else: title, transporter malfunctions, Core-squelike machine to drill through the Earth's crust, CGI T-Rexes. All things considered, even though I could have spent the 87 minutes in more uplifting ways, I was entertained. I would like to have seen more of Goth Girl.