I know I fucked up last week and only had one post. Someone on Twitter said that this month has been Mondays strung together with barbed wire and damn, if that ain't the truth. Oscar nominations come out next Tuesday so I'm gearing up to watch a bunch of depressing shit. At least the majority of them will probably be streaming. 
Volcanologist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) is stuck baby-sitting his teenaged nephew, Sean (Josh Hutcherson) for the weekend. Sean notices that an ongoing seismic sensor has just switched on in Iceland and Trevor realizes this could be his best chance to find out what happened to his brother (Jean Michael Paré), Sean's father, who disappeared while trying to prove that Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth was factually accurate. In Iceland, the pair hire mountain guide Hannah Ásgeirsson (Anita Briem) to take them to the sensor, but a cave-in sees them venturing further into the mountain and falling deep into the earth. Taking their cue from the novel, the three must survive a subterranean world full of hazards before their opportunity to escape is lost forever.
This isn't the worst movie I've ever seen. It's cute. Fraser is always good in action comedies. It's not his best work by a long shot, but even his mediocre is worth watching. Hutcherson's character is fairly annoying, but that's not really his fault. It's hard to play "angsty teen" without being annoying. Briem does get kind of the short end of the stick as a supporting character/love interest but holds her own as much as she can.
It's currently available on Tubi.
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