#Journey 2 cast crack#

It will be preceded in theaters by “Daffy’s Rhapsody,’’ a brilliant new animated short in 3-D with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. With cheesy-looking effects including a ride on the backs of giant bees and dubious literary references, “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’’ comes dangerously close to giving books, never mind 3-D, a bad name.īut there’s actually a pretty decent reason to see this movie. They all crash-land on an island that turns out to be sinking - but nowhere near as fast as the movie. The last leg of their journey is aboard a ramshackle helicopter with Guzman and his daughter (Vanessa Hudgens) - whom Johnson suggests his son can woo by flexing his pectorals. It’s been patched together from bits and pieces of Verne’s “Mysterious Island’’ and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’’ Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island’’ and Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.’’ Swift would probably satirically skewer the idea of a retired Navy SEAL and his stepson traveling to the South Pacific to find the boy’s long-lost grandfather (Caine).

You know we’re in serious trouble when even old pros such as Michael Caine and Luis Guzman can’t do anything with the uninspired and unfunny script. PHOTOS: JOSH HUTCHERSON AND MORE FUTURE STARS Kristin Davis, who looks like she’d rather be having her legs waxed, cameos briefly as his wife. Fraser is conspicuously absent from this cash-grabbing sequel, which brings back only the actor who played his son (a bored-looking Josh Hutcherson). The first film, starring Brendan Fraser, had far better effects, and a lot of fun with the clever idea of a contemporary father and son following clues in Jules Verne’s book to re-create his adventures. Perhaps this set back will cause Johnson to rethink Journey 3: From the Earth to the Moon.Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson stereoscopically flexing his pectorals is the most impressive special effect in this sequel to “Journey to the Center of the Earth,’’ which helped kick off the 3-D boom in 2008. This move into the DCU proved unsuccessful with Black Adam sequels already being nixed, the Superman cameo becoming awkward after Henry Cavill's recasting, and the box-office failure of Shazam!: Fury of the Gods. Black Adam's DC Comics origin is a gruesome one, and the character mainly appears as an antagonist to Shazam and Superman, although Dwayne Johnson's film shifted that narrative somewhat focusing on Black Adam as a standalone character.

For fans of Johnson's signature brand of humor, the animated DC League of Super-Pets delivered this in spades, particularly because Johnson was joined by one of his most consistent and hilarious co-stars, Kevin Hart, who voices Ace the Bat-Hound.īlack Adam, on the other hand, was a much darker film. He plays the titular villain/anti-hero in the former movie, and in the latter, he voices Superman's pet, Krypto the Superdog. The Rock actually joined the DCU twice over in the same year with both Black Adam and DC League of Super-Pets. The multi-talented Dwayne Johnson also broke new ground in 2022 by making his debut in the superhero genre. Johnson’s admission they had trouble coming up with a solid script indicates it might be a good thing Journey 3 didn’t ultimately move ahead too. While the first two movies were fun adventures, Journey wasn’t a franchise that had a burning fanbase either, so it’s easy to see how it fell between the cracks. However, further recasting would not help the franchise losing both Johnson and Fraser. In the same way The Mummy star Brendan Fraser was replaced by Johnson, the studio could have brought on a new lead actor for Journey 3. Following the gigantic success of Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Johnson moved his attention to that family-friendly adventure franchise with a similar tone which has already become more successful. This wasn’t much of a shock, considering it had been six years since Journey 2 by that point and there had been little sign of movement on the project.

#Journey 2 cast crack#

Almost nothing was heard about Journey 3 between 2015 to 2018 when Johnson confirmed Journey 3 was canceled because they couldn’t crack the script. Journey 3 & 4 were still being planned around this time, but it appears Johnson’s hectic workload and focus on other projects kept pushing them back.