Does anyone plan to see this flick?

Journey to the Center of the Earth: Action. Starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Directed by Eric Brevig. (PG. 92 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.)

Living at a time when any spectacle imaginable can be put onscreen, action filmmakers have only their good taste to restrain them. It's so easy to dream up monsters and so hard to devise stories and characters. Add into the equation an audience that will flock to whatever makes the biggest noise - not to mention a critical community that often seems willing to lobotomize itself so as to get into the spirit - and it becomes a wonder that anything as satisfying and sensible as "Journey to the Center of the Earth" ever gets made.
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