Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)

Adventure, Sci-Fi /
3.1/10
84% – Critics
69% – Audience

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Dreadful & awe-inspiring at every turn…

Hysterically awful TV update of the classic story clearly (or hopefully) wasted most of its budget on beer, because the special effects stretch to little more than a bloke in a bizarre furry white suit and a dizzily-whizzing, chirpy female head in a bubble (which may remind Brit viewers of a certain recent Building Society Ad). And F. Murray Abraham’s in it! It’s less than a decade since the Oscar, for God’s sake, ‘F’! But its fun. GREAT fun. Watch it AFTER the pub, as I’m ashamed to say I did not, and its a classic.

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

The Pilot for a Fortunately Never-Produced Series, Robbing the Jules Verne Title But Not the Plot

In the wake of the dreadful 1980s mistreatment of the Jules Verne classic by Cannoon, next few years, several other studios considered making movies of Journey to the Center Of the Earth, but the only result was further mishandling. On February 28, 1993, NBC premiered a new two-hour television movie entitled JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, which had even less relation to the novel than the Cannon duo. The modern plot related how an enthusiastic university professor, Harlech (F. Murray Abraham), dreams of discovering enormous caverns beneath the surface by traveling into the shaft of an active volcano. However, after entering the nuclear-powered craft he has invented for such travel, it apparently explodes upon the first attempt to descend. His nephew carries on with the idea, forging an uncomfortable alliance with a wealthy industrialist to build a new, improved craft, which succeeds in arriving underground and conveying its passengers through mysterious domains. This JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is, in fact, more of a remake of UNKNOWN WORLD, building on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s mole concept to solve the most problematic notion of the Verne story for modern audiences–how explorers could walk to the Earth’s center–by offering an outer space-style craft to expedite their journey, while still pausing outside the ship for the encounters with early humans and primitive animals that Verne had included.

Direction by William Dear was capable, especially considering the trite script by David Mickey Evans and Robert Gunter; producer was John Ashley, with Dear, Evans, and Dale De La Torre as executive producers. Actually, the new television picture, hastily completed and broadcast with a minimum of publicity, consisted of two pilot episodes of a projected series. As a result, the film concludes in an open-ended fashion, as the craft goes forward to continue finding new realms (in episodes presumably never filmed).

Many of the elements contained in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH were conventions of science fiction. Pollution threatens to render the surface uninhabitable, and the subterranean world offers the possibility of a new home for humankind. Horrific crawling manta-ray style monsters and a missing-link race of early man called troglodytes provide further danger. In an update of 2001–A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), there is a Hal-style onboard computer that not only has a personality, but a holographic face of its own as well. An evil Darth Vader-type creature, kept alive through artificial means and reminiscent of the STAR WARS trilogy, tries to thwart the explorers. (A brief shot as he falls into the lava shows him wearing the same ring as the nephew gave Harlech before his apparent death, perhaps indicating Harlech was transformed.) Both this creature and the expedition’s scientist, played by John Neville (in the only dignified role), are trying to complete a lost computer chip puzzle that forms a book of knowledge from the time of Atlantis. A lovable Tibetan abominable snowman joins the group, which also includes other stereotypical representatives meant to form a microcosm of humanity: a strong female spelunker, two women scientists, an explosives expert, and an angry African-American.

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