Journey to the Center of the Earth (2023– ) User Reviews

Poor script, special effects and dubbing

[juliethood · 1/10 · 21 April 2023]

If we ignore the inaccuracies of Jules Verne's history then we still have a steaming pile of rubbish. The special effects would have been bad back in the 80's with ameture looking stop motion monsters combined with obvious green screen work. The script is nonsensical and the child actors are not very good. Pop in the fact that the dubbing is terrible and you have a show that is worse than Tierra Incógnita (Disney+ release of 2022). I don't know if Disney is commissioning fantasty series in the Spanish language for diversity, but they need to really up thier game to show something that is watchable. There was no way I was going to invest more than one episode into this.

What about some historical accuracy ?

[pkpera · 2/10 · 9 April 2023]

This starts with Jules Verne 'himself' , talking to future generations, what would be us too. Talking about discovering parallel universes, about portals (which he used) ... Really complete fiction. And yes, in this case enormous disrespect toward Jules Verne, toward historical facts. I mean here about saying that Jules Verne had such ideas is what is fiction.

Some think that in fiction everything is allowed.

Well, that was not so some 50 years ago. At least, count of 'some' was way less. And yes, first movie with same title was pretty much faithful to Verne's novel, of course there was some 'Hollywood' added. Second one from 2008 was rather inspired with ... But this using same title, starts with Verne, and then, completely different story. They even not do journey in classic meaning.

Congrats on this humbug, Disney.

Why rating 2 ? Well, actors did decent job.

Dub a dub dub.

[pjbridges_28 · 1/10 · 25 April 2024]

The dubbing is way off on this show. I thought at first it may be a few scenes. After a while it was really annoying to the point that my 7 year old even pointed it out. The script is weak. I was hoping that this was going to be a great show and was excited when this popped up on Disney. Just disappointed. I do like the fact that Disney is trying to add more foreign shows. It just needs to be done better. It's Disney! You would think that there are some guidelines or test screenings that a show would go through. This would have been caught right away. If you want to still give it a try be my guest. I hope I'm wrong.