Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
A stillborn franchise attempt, how sad. Even more for kids than the last one, mashing up book concepts like there’s no tomorrow.
At the core, it’s a cookie-cutter good stepfather plot, where the suburban kid in his 20s is really into a Polynesian hillbilly girl played by Vanessa Hudgens. The Rock does a better Arnie impression than most, but with some minor acting on the side.
The plot itself makes no goddamn sense whatsoever. Robert Loius Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, but that’s the OG pirate story. The island on Gulliver’s Travels is Laputa, a flying island, with a massive electromagnet, used by the scientist inhabitants to terrorise other countries. Verne’s Mysterious Island I never read, does it feature pygmy elephants and massive bees?
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