Well it starts off with a decent premise anyhow---scientists want to find an underground place for humanity to survive in case of nuclear war. The rest is pure garbage.
Spoiler......
Obviously taken from Verne's novel "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", this adaptation puts a new "bore" on that story (yeah pun intended).
The basic plot can be described as: Group of boneheads descend into extinct volcano via their Cyclotrain (or whatever they called the thing). They go a ways, then all but the driver get out and walk for a while (why?). They bicker among themselves a bit (Mostly the hot-shot rich guy and Andy). They lose a couple of guys to gas. They travel some more in the boring device (which BTW doesn't do much boring. It mostly just moves along tunnels as if pulled by a string---probably was). They stop again to explore tunnels and Hot-shot falls with Andy losing his life rescuing him. (Every time one of these guys bites it it's a relief to the viewer, cause by this time you're hoping they all get wiped out).
Finally they get to a "lighted" cave with subterranean sea where they supposedly find their paradise bomb shelter. But alas, their rabbits can't reproduce, so all is lost and they must give it all up. But, oh no, the big, bad volcano (along with underground lightning storm---oh boy) decides to erupt about that time forcing our party back into their Cyclotrain. They lose another guy about this time---he drowns.
But it's not over yet! Get ready for a further descent into the sea (2600 miles deep to be exact) as their vessel gets sucked down (how this happens is beyond my comprehension). (Hang on guys, we're almost done. Don't fall asleep yet.) A freak up-current (mighty speedy one I must say) sends their craft back up 2600 miles in a matter of seconds to the surface of the earth and these butt nuggets pop out in the vicinity of a tropical island. Oh, boy! They found their paradise.
Man what a hokey pile of dung! Not a single threatening creature to entertain us. (Did they run out of iguanas or something.) No evil Count skulking around the back passages to menace our party. And actors so bad that you hope they die off before the end. What's wrong with these producers? You can't make a movie like this without SOMETHING menacing.
Not to mention the stupid hypothesis about the Earth being cool at the core. Now they actually pulled off that hypothesis pretty well in the James Mason version of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". But this movie sinks to subterranean levels (at least 2600 miles lower) compared to that one.
I gave this movie a 2 because I liked the little Cyclotrain model. Too bad they didn't do more with it.
I have my own hypothesis about movies like this. They made these crappy movies for teenagers who took their girlfriends to the theatre and wanted to do something besides watch the movie---yeah.
The coaster stack grows. Unless you really, really love old, hokey sci-fi movies, don't even approach this one.
Spoiler......
Obviously taken from Verne's novel "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", this adaptation puts a new "bore" on that story (yeah pun intended).
The basic plot can be described as: Group of boneheads descend into extinct volcano via their Cyclotrain (or whatever they called the thing). They go a ways, then all but the driver get out and walk for a while (why?). They bicker among themselves a bit (Mostly the hot-shot rich guy and Andy). They lose a couple of guys to gas. They travel some more in the boring device (which BTW doesn't do much boring. It mostly just moves along tunnels as if pulled by a string---probably was). They stop again to explore tunnels and Hot-shot falls with Andy losing his life rescuing him. (Every time one of these guys bites it it's a relief to the viewer, cause by this time you're hoping they all get wiped out).
Finally they get to a "lighted" cave with subterranean sea where they supposedly find their paradise bomb shelter. But alas, their rabbits can't reproduce, so all is lost and they must give it all up. But, oh no, the big, bad volcano (along with underground lightning storm---oh boy) decides to erupt about that time forcing our party back into their Cyclotrain. They lose another guy about this time---he drowns.
But it's not over yet! Get ready for a further descent into the sea (2600 miles deep to be exact) as their vessel gets sucked down (how this happens is beyond my comprehension). (Hang on guys, we're almost done. Don't fall asleep yet.) A freak up-current (mighty speedy one I must say) sends their craft back up 2600 miles in a matter of seconds to the surface of the earth and these butt nuggets pop out in the vicinity of a tropical island. Oh, boy! They found their paradise.
Man what a hokey pile of dung! Not a single threatening creature to entertain us. (Did they run out of iguanas or something.) No evil Count skulking around the back passages to menace our party. And actors so bad that you hope they die off before the end. What's wrong with these producers? You can't make a movie like this without SOMETHING menacing.
Not to mention the stupid hypothesis about the Earth being cool at the core. Now they actually pulled off that hypothesis pretty well in the James Mason version of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". But this movie sinks to subterranean levels (at least 2600 miles lower) compared to that one.
I gave this movie a 2 because I liked the little Cyclotrain model. Too bad they didn't do more with it.
I have my own hypothesis about movies like this. They made these crappy movies for teenagers who took their girlfriends to the theatre and wanted to do something besides watch the movie---yeah.
The coaster stack grows. Unless you really, really love old, hokey sci-fi movies, don't even approach this one.