Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

In this follow-up to Journey to the Center of the Earth, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island begins when 17-year-old Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. It's a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever.

This movie is exactly what you thought it would be. A quick, no real story, creature effects heavy movie for young teens. However, they put The Rock in it. Therefore, it was much more watchable. I absolutely love this guy and his going back and forth with Michael Caine and Luis Guzman was vintage stuff from his WWE days. In terms of continuity - there really is none from the first movie. I don't remember any explanation as to why Brandon Fraser wasn't in this or what happened post Journey 1, but I didn't care because The Rock was in it.

I would somewhat recommend this movie to anyone that was interested in it. There are some scenes that might be a little too scary for little kids and it's overall a pretty cheesy movie. However, The Rock is in it so that always makes everything better.