Warner
Bros. made “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” for 3D big screens in 2012, but
watching the pop-art colors, goofy-grin special effects, and
family-on-an-adventure story, I thought of the Disney movies from 30
years back, fantasies that put children center stage. “Journey” is proudly
rah-rah family fun, hokey with “I love you, dad” montages that rocket past
cringingly cloy, but it is miles better than the first “Journey” film, “Center of the Earth.” That piffle drowned in bad CGI, but here we get tiny
elephants, giant bees, raging waters, and falling rocks that ring more true. (Sort
of.) Speaking of Rocks, Dwayne Johnson replaces Brandon Fraser as the adult who
joins our teen hero (Josh Hutcherson) on an adventure that again focuses on Verne and a missing relative (Michael Caine as one cool grandpa). Hutcherson
is too old to be short-bus style yelling “Grandpa!,” but Johnson
has a ball singing and playing a ukulele. Adults won’t mind when the
cast breaks the fourth wall and smirk. B-
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