Movie Review: Old version of Journey to the Center of the Earth

This version was made for TV and stars Treat Williams and Jeremy London (no idea who they are). Dad bought it at Wal-Mart for $5 in a set that came with another Jules-Verne-book-based movie (Mysterious Island).

It would have been a nice, fun movie, and started out that way, but it had very disappointing problems:

The handsome young main character man (Jeremy London) turned out to be a jerk – he had a fiance back on the surface, but he “fell in love” (without even getting to know her…how does that work??) with a cave girl in the center of the earth and made out with her. I think they stopped before going all the way because it bothered him that he was being unfaithful to his fiance (Dad was fast-forwarding, of course, and then he was bored because the movie had slowed and fast-forwarded most of their conversation afterward so I’m not sure what all they said about that). But he was still a jerk to forget his fiance like that in the first place because of a pretty face, and get all smoochy with the cave girl. Then he went back and was sick and said the cave girl’s name in his sleep and his fiance wanted to know who Ralnah was but said it was none of her business so never mind (was too her business since she was engaged to him!) and he didn’t tell her, but he didn’t marry her, either (thankfully! He wouldn’t been even more of a jerk if he married her without telling her what he’d been up to), but instead went off on a ship because he felt like wandering. *sigh*

And the rest of the cave people had few if any morals. Not to mention the main characters believed in evolution. I don’t recommend the movie at all. It’s a shame that they put that stuff in there.

Have an amazing rest of your life!
- WM