History YMMV / JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: the 1959 movie, thanks to Music/BernardHerrmann. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beY6KfNJwDM Mountain top/Sunrise]] would later inspire Music/DannyElfman's ''Film/Batman1989'' theme.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** Pat Boone breaks into song for no apparent reason, save for the movie [[ShootTheMoney Shooting The Money]]. That and the ShirtlessScene.
** One of the English translations of the book added a dream sequence where Axel (or "Harry", as he is renamed) witnesses a battle between a giant ape and crocodile and is then attacked by the ape before waking up. It's a completely pointless scene that only succeeds in making the reader further lament that the story doesn't feature more prehistoric creatures.
* CargoShip: Hans appears to have an odd relationship with his duck.
* FridgeLogic:
** Why, in the 2008 movie, is there so much ''wind'' in an enclosed underground environment? The vegetation quivers in the breeze constantly, and the first plant encountered is one that evidently relies on wind for seed dispersal.

* {{Narm}}: Pat Boone's Alec shouting out "Hi-ai!" to alert his fellow spelunkers, just for how awkward the antiquated expression sounds to a modern ear.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Not bad for the time (1959), except for the scene where they're carried up the lava tube. The beloved {{slurpasaur}} makes an appearance, looking much more realistic in its movements than any rubber monster.
** The 2008 film has special effects that are very often hit and miss.
* TearJerker:
** In the 2008 movie, the scene where the characters [[spoiler: bury and say goodbye to Max.]] The entire thing, but especially the journal entry read by Trevor, that Max wrote on Sean's birthday.
** From the 1959 movie, the scene where Hans wakes up [[spoiler: to find out that the TokenEvilTeammate has butchered and eaten his beloved duck, arguably what pushes him over the MoralEventHorizon. Though the Count gets his comeuppance almost immediately afterward]].
** Also from the 1959 film, when the expedition discovers [[spoiler: the remains of Arne Saknussem]].

* {{Macekre}}: Rather infamously in some circles. Creator/JulesVerne in general is poorly translated, and this book in particular received absolutely terrible translations. Pretty much everything that Creator/FourKidsEntertainment did to ''Manga/OnePiece'', Griffith and Farran did to this book, [[OlderThanTheyThink almost 150 years earlier]].

* ArcFatigue: The first several chapters are just Axel and the Professor's journey from Germany to Iceland. They can be skipped without missing anything. These chapters are boring enough in the original, but in [[CutAndPasteTranslation the most well-known English translation]], they become downright unbearable.

** From the 2012 ''Mysterious Island'' movie, the whole "Pop the Pecs" scene would certainly qualify as one of these.

** The 2012 film is jam packed with the stuff. Between the fact that there's apparently a category 5 hurricane just hanging around somewhere off the coast of Palau (and nobody on the island seems to care too much about that,) and the fact that there's all sorts of satellites overhead that might be interested in taking a look at what's going on in there, it doesn't seem like the Mysterious Island would stay mysterious for all that long, would it? Oh, and you'd also think one or two of those satellites would be equipped with spectrometers that might take notice of a giant gold-spewing volcano...
** Conventional ham radio does not use satellites; signals may however be skipped off the ionosphere.
** How does one steer a giant untrained bee?
** Maps are optional features in most books.
** Verne's Nautilus did not have torpedoes (Nemo sinks his shipping by ramming), and Professor Arronaux was light on the details of the submarine's controls. And batteries do not work like that.
** Sean is in high school, and clams to have straight A's. Why doesn't he know about latitude and longitude cordinates, then?
*** How are there living land-animals on an island that spends long stretches of time underwater?

* JustHereForGodzilla: Most people only went to see ''Journey 2 the Mysterious Island'' just for the new Daffy Duck short, ''Daffy's Rhapsody''.
** Or The Rock.
** Or even Josh Hutcherson. Film/TheHungerGames opened the month after ''Journey 2 the Mysterious Island'' did, and surely some new fans became interested in Journey 2 for that instance alone.

* NonSingingVoice: Averted in the 2012 movie; that really is Dwayne Johnson singing "What A Wonderful World" with new lyrics (and again over the end credits, with the proper ones).
* TheOtherDarrin: Sean's mother was played by Jane Wheeler in the 2008 film. In 2012, it's Kristen Davis.
* RetroactiveRecognition: For the 2008 movie.
** Hello there, [[Film/TheHungerGames Peeta Mellark]]!
** And Hello there, Creator/SethMeyers!

* WTHCastingAgency: The Rock and Creator/MichaelCaine in a film together? Thankfully it works very well.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Pat Boone breaks into song for no apparent reason.
** Well, he was a famous singer at the time. Most likely the movie [[ShootTheMoney Shooting The Money]]. That and the ShirtlessScene.

* FridgeLogic: The 2012 film is jam packed with the stuff. Between the fact that there's apparently a category 5 hurricane just hanging around somewhere off the coast of Palau (and nobody on the island seems to care too much about that,) and the fact that there's all sorts of satellites overhead that might be interested in taking a look at what's going on in there, it doesn't seem like the Mysterious Island would stay mysterious for all that long, would it? Oh, and you'd also think one or two of those satellites would be equipped with spectrometers that might take notice of a giant gold-spewing volcano...

* CriticalResearchFailure: The last name of the character Hannah Ásgeirsson in the 2008 film should by all rights be "Ásgeirs'''dóttir'''" (meaning "daughter of Ásger", as opposed to "son of Ásgeir"). Icelanders don't pass their last names onto their children, so Icelandic women with last names ending on "son" are pretty much unheard of.
** It gets worse: Hannah's father's name was Sigurbjörn Ásgeirsson, so she should have the last name Sigurbjörndöttir.
** In fairness, the actress is also Icelandic, and her name is Briem. Her father's name is also Briem. There are inherited names in Iceland, including ones saying "son," they're just uncommon.

** Why, in the 2008 movie, is there so much ''wind'' in an enclosed underground environment?

* WTHCastingAgency: The Rock and Michael Caine in a film together? Thankfully it works very well.

* TearJerker: In the 2008 movie, the scene where the characters [[spoiler: bury and say goodbye to Max.]] The entire thing, but especially the journal entry read by Trevor, that Max wrote on Sean's birthday.
** From the earlier movie, the scene where Hans wakes up [[spoiler: to find out that the TokenEvilTeammate has butchered and eaten his beloved duck, arguably what pushes him over the MoralEventHorizon, though he gets his comeuppance almost immediately afterward]].

* {{Macekre}}: Rather infamously in some circles. Creator/JulesVerne in general is poorly translated, and this book in particular received absolutely terrible translations. Pretty much everything that Creator/FourKidsEntertainment did to ''Anime/OnePiece'', Griffith and Farran did to this book, [[OlderThanTheyThink almost 150 years earlier]].

** From the 2012 Mysterious Island movie, the whole "Pop the Pecs" scene would certainly qualify as one of these.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: the 1959 movie, thanks to Music/BernardHerrmann. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beY6KfNJwDM Mountain top/Sunrise]] would later inspire Music/DannyElfman's Film/{{Batman}} theme.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the sights encountered in the book is [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsV a giant leading a herd of mammoths]].

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency?: The Rock and Michael Caine in a film together? Thankfully it works very well.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: the 1959 movie, thanks to BernardHerrmann. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beY6KfNJwDM Mountain top/Sunrise]] would later inspire Music/DannyElfman's Film/{{Batman}} theme.