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Fandango Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Hutcherson. Search movie Bullhead showtimes and buy The Hunter tickets. Journey 2: Mysterious Island Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Undefeated BY ROGER EBERT / February 8, 2012 more current releases » about us "Journey 2: The Mysterious one-minute movie reviews About the site » Island" looks like nothing so cast & credits much as one of those live- still playing Site FAQs » action adventures that Disney used to grind out in Hank Dwayne Johnson Contact us » the 1950s — and hey, Alexander Michael Caine Act of Valor here's Captain Nemo's Sean Josh Hutcherson Addiction Incorporated The Adventures of Tintin Email the Movie Nautilus to prove it. Also, a Kailani Vanessa Hudgens Albert Nobbs Answer Man » tree house to humble Gabato Luis Guzman Amador "Swiss Family Robinson," The Artist which contains a short- on sale now Warner Bros. presents a film Bullhead wave radio that has been directed by Brad Peyton. Written by Carnage assembled from old Brian and Mark Gunn. Running Chico & Rita spoons, I think I heard. Chronicle time: 94 minutes. Rated PG (for The Conquest The movie is very, very some adventure action, and brief Contraband loosely a sequel to "Journey mild language). Coriolanus to the Center of the Earth," Crazy Horse with only two connections: Printer-friendly » A Dangerous Method It's inspired by a Jules E-mail this to a friend » Declaration of War Verne novel, and it co-stars Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Flowers of War Buy now » young Josh Hutcherson as the hero Sean. The film Garbo the Spy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens with him on a The Grey motorcycle and being chased by cops, but not to worry; all he did was Haywire break into a satellite-tracking station to boost the power on a Hell and Back Again message for help sent by his grandfather from a lost island in the House of Pleasures Pacific. The Hunter In Darkness Sean, whose father in the first film (Brendan Fraser) has disappeared In the Land of Blood and Honey (from the cast, anyway), now has to deal with Hank (Dwayne The Innkeepers Buy now » Johnson, aka the Rock). Hank is his new stepdad. Josh and Hank The Iron Lady make friends by decrypting grandfather's message; Hank glances at Journey 2: Mysterious Island it and intuits that the two-syllable words stand for dots and one- Joyful Noise syllable words stand for dashes, which means Grandpa has had The King of Devil's Island enough free time on his remote island to figure out a way to make London River Man on a Ledge Morse code several times longer than it previously was. Unanswered Miss Minoes is why grandfather would encrypt a call for help. Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol Mulberry Child This Hank, what a swell guy. He proposes that the two of them fly off My Piece of the Pie Buy now » to the Pacific and find Grandpa. On arrival somewhere, they hire a New Year's Eve tourist helicopter pilot named Gabato, played by Luis Guzman as Newlyweds another one of those low-comedy guys who gets all worked up and is Norwegian Wood scared of stuff. (I enjoyed a reprise of this classic shot: Gabato runs scared of stuff. (I enjoyed a reprise of this classic shot: Gabato runs toward camera, falls on stomach, looks up …and up … and up.) On the Ice Oscar nominated short docs Outrage Gabato has a daughter named Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), a Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Polynesian beauty who wears a tank top and Daisy Dukes throughout Pariah the film. These four fly off in the helicopter, are trapped in a Force Paul Goodman Changed My Life Five hurricane that rips it to pieces and are lucky enough to find Pina themselves alive on the beach of the Mysterious Island. Rampart Buy now » Red Tails This is your complete island. It has an active volcano; waterfalls with A Separation no apparent water sources streaming down cliffs; elephants the size Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows of dogs, and giant lizards that are nowhere big enough to account for Silent Souls the size of their eggs. (Josh falls through the shell of one, splashes in The Sitter a pool of yolk and is attacked by an unborn lizard chick.) Also on the Sundance shorts 2012 island is the lost city of Atlantis, even though it's in the wrong ocean, That Girl in Yellow Boots and bees so big Sean and Kailani can both ride on the back of one. Thin Ice This Means War And Alexander Anderson, Sean's grandfather, played by Michael Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Caine, who will not be editing this role into his videos about how to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Buy now » act in movies. Tomboy Undefeated I hope you understand I enjoyed most of this stuff. The director, Brad The Vow Peyton, apparently intended it as a genial parody of countless other W.E. movies in this spirit. There is, for example, a scene were Sean, Wages of Fear Grandpa, Kailani and Gabato all sit around the old campfire and War Horse listen while Hank strums a ukulele and sings "What a Wonderful We Bought a Zoo World." And I mean he sings it: every word of three verses. It's not We Need to Talk about Kevin every day you see the Rock channeling Gene Autry. Windfall The Woman in Black Buy now » Sean deduces that Verne's novel contains everything they need to Young Adult Young Goethe in Love know, and this comes in handy when the volcano explodes, and the island begins to sink into the sea. Sure enough, Captain Nemo's more current releases » submarine is still hidden underwater. Hank and Sean, trusting Verne, dive off a high cliff, and while holding their breath and swimming underwater, are able to (1) find the sub, (2) open the hatch by tugging on dvd and twisting it, (3) swim inside, (4) push a lever to fill it with air, and (5) get the power generator working by jump-starting it with an new on dvd electric eel. Buy now» more new on dvd » This is transcendently goofy. It isn't a "good" movie in the usual sense (or most senses), but it is jolly and good-natured, and Michael coming on dvd Caine and Dwayne Johnson are among the most likable of actors. Johnson is such a good sport, he even shows young Sean how to impress girls by flexing your pecs so quickly that nuts will ricochet off more coming on dvd » them. I can't think of any reason to pay extra for the 3-D. great movies on dvd

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