Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

You don't believe a second of it, but it's easy to enjoy, partly because of the casting of all three leads.

A more unavoidable obstacle here is that there's not much in the way of plot -- the story is in the tour through the labyrinthian intimacies of inner Earth. As such, it's an f/x wizard's dream, and Brevig makes the most of it.

Journey is just the new version of a 1950s comin'-at-ya roller coaster, with a tape measure, trilobite antennae, and giant snapping piranha thrust at the audience.

So the science in this film of Jules Verne's science fiction classic is ludicrous. Well, how's the fiction? Not terrible.

I don't know if 3-D could improve all movies (nothing could make "The Love Guru" funny) but it sure works here.