Line #3 Film/Journey2TheMysteriousIsland


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3	A 2012 sequel to ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth2008'', directed by Brad Peyton, starring Creator/DwayneJohnson, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The story is a very loose adaptation of Verne's ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland''.
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5	Four years after the previous movie, the now seventeen-year-old Sean (Creator/JoshHutcherson) is fixated on finding his long-lost grandfather (Creator/MichaelCaine), and, driven by the first film's revelation that Verne's ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' was a factual account, believes he has found the key to discovering him: by overlaying the island maps in ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' and ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'', he creates a map of a new island, complete with coordinates. Heading to the western Pacific to seek out the island, Sean and his stepfather Hank (Johnson) secure a helicopter for their search but are caught in a storm and crash on their destination, a lost land of dwarf elephants, giant butterflies and huge, aggressive lizards -- and also, incidentally, the home of the lost city Atlantis. They discover that the island submerges and reemerges on a regular cycle, and, when they realize that it will soon vanish back into the sea, they set out on a frantic search for their only way off -- the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's legendary submarine.
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7	Creator/VanessaHudgens, Creator/LuisGuzman, and Creator/KristinDavis co-star.
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9	!!This movie contains examples of:
10	* ArtifactTitle: A mild case. The title would have made more sense if they had left off the "Journey 2" part, but there is ''technically'' a journey (just not to the center of the earth and it's not particularly long as they spend most of the movie trying to get ''off'' Literature/TheMysteriousIsland).
11	* {{Atlantis}}: The lost city is located on the island. They also reference the fact the ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' had Atlantis under the ocean.
12	* BigDamnKiss: Between Sean and Kailani in the movie's climax.
13	* CanonWelding: This movie makes at least the settings of ''Journey To The Center of The Earth'', ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', and ''The Mysterious Island'' equally real in-universe, as well as parts of ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' and ''Literature/GulliversTravels''.
14	* ContinuityNod:
15	** Alexander brings up the Vernians in the opening narration and is established as the original Vernian in the Anderson family.
16	** Sean's wall displays articles referencing him and his uncle's expedition from the previous film.
17	** Alexander references Max's death in the last film.
18	* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly averted with Gabato, who nearly dies trying to dig up a giant lump of gold. He isn’t motivated by greed, however. He just wants to give his daughter a better life and a good education.
19	* DisappearedDad: Hank’s father ran out on him when he was a small boy. [[FreudianExcuse As a result]], Hank is determined to be the best stepfather he can possibly be to Sean.
20	* DoNotCallMePaul: Henry... er, Hank. Actually, it's not made clear if Henry really is Hank's name, or if Hank isn't really a nickname, but all the same, Hank doesn't like being called Henry.
21	* FanService: Music/VanessaHudgens wearing a tank top and short shorts for almost the entire movie. Also, did any male viewers who saw it in 3D regret paying extra in the scene where she crawls out of a collapsing tunnel with the camera [[MaleGaze on her from behind]]? Thought not.
22	%%* GenreBlindness: Hank. Lampshaded at one point.%%Quotesa aren't context.
23	%%-->'''Sean:''' You didn't expect mysterious things from a place called ''the Mysterious Island''? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's right there in the title."]]
24	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
25	** Hank is a genuinely caring person, and does worry about Sean. But, the way he insults Sean's grandfather, ''in front of Sean'', is just a tad mean-spirited. He gets better though.
26	** Alexander, for mainly the same reasons. He and Hank pretty much take turns insulting and undermining each other for the first half of the movie before beginning to respect each other.
27	* MaleGaze:
28	** Practically the moment Kailani appears, in a tank top, the camera goes straight to her breasts.
29	** As mentioned above, when Kailani is crawling out of the cave, the camera is focused on her butt.
30	* OhCrap: When Hank attempts to punch the giant lizard.
31	-->'''Hank:''' I think I just made it worse.
32	* OminousCrack: The giant lizard egg that starts cracking under Gabato's weight.
33	* PsychoElectricEel: A very big nippy one in the sea cave where the ''Nautilus'' is hidden.
34	* RememberTheNewGuy: Alexander Anderson was never mentioned in the previous film, despite this film implying he was the one who get Max into Verne. Handwaved by the film noting that he was never around.
35	* SequelNonEntity: Sean's uncle Trevor is absent from the sequel. A DeletedScene mentions that he's off on another expedition, likely continuing his work on the underground world from the last film.
36	* ShoutOut: The giant iguana is a huge ShoutOut towards monster movies in the 50s [[{{Slurpasaur}} when they used iguanas and gators for dinosaurs]].
37	* TheStinger: A mid-credits scene reveals that three small elephants survived the submerging of Atlantis, and they are seen swimming underwater towards that city. Indicating that the flora and fauna of the island have evolved to survive the islands cyclists submerging.
38	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hank really doesn't like lizards and is freaked out by the overgrown one the group runs into on the island.
39	-->"Why did it have to be lizards? [[Franchise/IndianaJones Why couldn't it be snakes?]]"

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