Journey to the Center of the Earth

TV Movie
1993
TV-PG
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

3.2/10

940

YOUR RATING

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)

Adventure Sci-Fi

A team of explorers sets on a voyage to the Earth's core with their ship "Avenger". They recruit a yeti that serves as their guide. Meanwhile, a malevolent entity is attempting to recover th... Read allA team of explorers sets on a voyage to the Earth's core with their ship "Avenger". They recruit a yeti that serves as their guide. Meanwhile, a malevolent entity is attempting to recover the pieces of an Atlantean artifact.A team of explorers sets on a voyage to the Earth's core with their ship "Avenger". They recruit a yeti that serves as their guide. Meanwhile, a malevolent entity is attempting to recover the pieces of an Atlantean artifact.

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IMDb RATING

3.2/10

940

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
When the yeti like creature first speaks, actor Carel Struycken is speaking his native Dutch, and not as John Neville's character surmises, a 'Tibetan dialect found in the high Himalayas'. His words roughly translate to "I couldn't do anything about this, I just happened to be in the neighborhood, and..."

Goofs
Puppeteer visible behind rock after the ship is entering the great canyon.

Quotes
Chris Turner: You stole my designs, my research!
Mr. Wentworth: Liberated your ideas, Mr. Turner, expanded them and started construction almost two years ago. Sue me... or come on board as a full partner, Captain turner...

Connections
References Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)

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Review

Featured review

3/10

Journey to the Center of the Earth: Again, this is not Journey to the Center of the Earth!

Okay, this is getting old now. I'm binge watching Jules Verne's classics, namely 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Mysterious Island and Journey to the Center of the Earth and let me tell you a lot of writers have gone into business for themselves over the years.

What I mean by that is just how few are actually following Verne's work, most use the concept/title and little else. This made for TV effort barely takes the concept and is really just in title only.

Feeling and ending like the pilot episode of a Scyfy original television series it has little to nothing to do with Verne's work and is another example of creators taking liberties with time tested material.

We see a group of adventurers visit the center of the earth via a mole machine and a volcano and it erm.....flies, for some reason. While down there they come across Harry Henderson, vampire slime bat things, cavemen and an evil faceless foe who speaks in a voice that would be cheesy even by 1980's kids show standards.

Sadly the cheesiness doesn't end there, the performances are the over the top, the sfx are exactly what you'd expect for the time and the whole plot is yet another mockery to Verne's classic.

If you're seeking an adaptation of Journey to the Center of the Earth this very much needs skipping over. If you're looking for a cheesy dumb 1990's scifi movie starring Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager and Lurch from the Adams Family then this is the film for you.

The Good:

90's nostalgia novelty

The Bad:

Awful cgi

Has little to do with Jules Verne's work

Needlessly cheesy

Incomplete