92 minutes

In theaters July 11, 2008

Rating: PG, Adventure fantasy

What the new Journey to the Center of the Earth could have used a lot more of were journeys to the cutting room floor.

The first big-screen incarnation of Journey to the Center of the Earth, a drama about a fantastical subterranean expedition, was a 1959 version with James Mason and Pat Boone. And there have been several made-for-television adaptations. French science fiction author Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864. It now joins his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days in being turned into feature films, this one for the second time.