A quick search on the Internet Movie Database shows that Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” has been adapted for the screen (big and small) at least 10 times. There’s even a Filipino version! By Hollywood standards, this must not seem like overkill, because guess what? If you go to your local cinema, you can see the 11th version. But wait. The news gets better. If you’re lucky enough yours is one of the 954 cinemas showing it in 3-D. (The remaining 1,857 are not.)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) Movie Images Gallery

When reviewing something as potentially dangerous (at least from a reviewer’s point of view) as a movie based on a popular novel by a very popular genre author like Jules Verne, it’s best to come right out and say it: I have never read the original novel, and I am not exactly well-versed in the works of Jules Verne. So there you have it, I have exposed my ignorance of the source material, and as such, you should judge my review of the movie version in that light.