where: EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when: Sunday, February 12th, 2012
show: 9:45 p.m.
costs: $17.50 Ticket + $4.75 small ( 30 oz. ) Zero Sprite + $14.20 dinner @ Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, before the show ( + $2.80 Tip ) = $39.25
auditorium: 12, with the I-Max screen
seat: 6th row, 9th column
synopsis/overview: Sean ( Josh Hutcherson ) receives an encrypted message from his long-lost grandfather ( Michael Caine ) about a thought-to-be-fictional mysterious island somewhere in the Pacific. His stepfather, Hank ( Dwayne Johnson ), who wants to bond with him, decides to help Sean find the island and search for his grandfather with the aid of a helicopter tour guide, Gabato ( Luis Guzman ), and Gabato's daughter, Kailani ( Vanessa Hudgens ).
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Swimming pool; 2.) "I'm already in jail"; 3.) "The island is real"; 4.) Three books; 5.) "We're going to Palau"; 6.) Official language; 7.) "Only a fool trades his life for money"; 8.) Desperate tour guide; 9.) Eye of the hurricane; 10.) The mysterious island; 11.) Eggs; 12.) "That's emasculating"; 13.) Tree house; 14.) "The Pec Pop of Love"; 15.) The Lost City of Atlantis; 16.) A 140-year Cycle; 17.) Captain Nemo; 18.) Mountain of gold; 19.) Bees; 20.) Campfire; 21.) Triple rate of Liquefaction; 22.) "If we die down there, Mom is gonna kill us"; 23.) Big chunk of gold; 24.) Magnetic friction; 25.) The Nautilus Submarine; 26.) "I need you to come back"; 27.) "Thousand watt smile"; 28.) The huge boulder; 29.) "That works, too"; 30.) Luxury tours; 31.) Birthday; 32.) The next planned trip; and 33.) Bonus Scenes during the Ending Credits.
favorite scenes: I liked the Featured Short, DAFFY'S RHAPSODY. Because Daffy Duck is my Number One favorite of all the animated cartoon characters.
I liked the Elephants scene.
I liked the Sharks scene.
audience reaction: There was a man, a couple and a family of six in the auditorium with me. And the four brats seemed to like this movie. After all, they gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: It's a good enough "family" movie. Take your brats to go see this movie.
spoiler alert! A thousand dollars for college ain't gonna get you past the college bookstore--and I ain't even talkin' 'bout the cost of tuition! You need a bigger--much bigger--lizard to lay all of those eggs! I noticed this about the egg that Gabato fell into: At the stage of its Embryonic Development, the near-hatchling's egg's Albumen should have been considerably less in volume--and all of that empty space should not have been there in the first place. Those logs were not big enough to knock-out the giant lizard because lizards have what is called, The Reptilian Brain, a small, well-protected brain that doesn't have Cerebral Hemispheres like what is found in humans who, by the way, get easily knocked-out when the Cerebrum is "whipped" and "smashed" against the opposite wall of the skull when a hard, quick blow is delivered to the head, as from a punch. How did he build the tree house all by himself; and how was the old fart able to drag half the hull of his ship from the shore and all the way up that tree? Okay, if the City of Atlantis lays submerged for 140 years and appears above water for another 140 years before cycling back into submersion once again, then the only things that you would find on such an island would be coconut trees ringing the shoreline, sand, silt, coral, barnacles, sponges, starfish, crabs, turtles, shells, etc. One hundred forty years is not enough time, Evolution-wise, for variegated Flora and Fauna to exist and thrive in such a unique Ecological setting. Those bees were wild and would not like to have humans on their backs, much less have such humans steer them around like that. And, exactly how were they able to steer the bees around? The bird collision produced an "explosion" of feathers which would be highly unlikely in real life. It should have taken Gabato a long time to dig-up that big chunk of gold using just his hands. They could have chipped-off pieces of gold from that big chunk. They could have used their shadows to figure-out where the North was. How in the world did the giant electric eel miss its target on the first pass? There is nothing in this movie to suggest that the Nautilus submarine generates its own artificial field of gravity; in other words, in the fast almost-perpendicular ascent towards the surface, Hank should not have been able to walk around at all! When they torpedoed that Very Huge Boulder, they were still in the path of its blast debris. Sean and Hank better have a good stake in Gabato's new financial venture since it was they who found it in the first place!
fyi: A few years ago, an oil company's satellite survey of the Mediterranean Sea discovered a sunken island just off the coast of Cyprus. It is now speculated that this is the legendary ancient Lost City of Atlantis!
word of advice: Just because there is no physical evidence for something doesn't always mean that it doesn't exist.
tidbits: The Fortune Cookie that I was handed by the waiter at Tin Tin Chinese Buffet and which I read at 8:02 p.m. says: "Wish you a good journey." How strange it was that I should get this on the night that I decided to go see the movie, JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. Maybe, I'm destined to journey, too, to some mysterious island.
Am I the only one who noticed it or did Vanessa Hudgens look more "endowed"? Maybe, she is just a late-bloomer. Or she had a boob-job. Or she wore a well-padded bra. I'm inclined to think that it's the last one: That she wore a padded bra. Because her wet shirt scenes didn't reveal the outline of her nipples at all.
And speaking of Nipples ... why were Dwayne Johnson's nipples way below his Pectoral Muscles? This, I surmise, is a cautionary result of the over-reliance on the "Pec Pop of Love" courting habit. Don't do it!
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