Just perfect...

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The frames tell a story. One example when Sean's greed leads to the demise of the characters individuality. After the free fall scene, Trevor and Sean swim to solid ground rock,which I believe symbolizes a pivot point and shows there relationship is solid. As the mountain guide struggles alone in the water she can no longer be the independent any more, and is forced to accept unity. Once all three of them reach "Solid Ground" The luminous birds they interact with, reflect the true beauty of there relationship and shine a new light on there situation.

A few years ago my mom borrowed this movie from the library claiming that it was entertaining. It is not. Do not watch this movie. It is terrible. Characters - I have no clue if there were actually characters in this movie. A more accurate description would be "a couple of people were asked to read lines, and walk across poorly designed greenscreens in an effort to get people to call them actors." Take it from me, no one on the cast of this movie cared enough to even attempt a convincing performance. The script was pretty bad, but still. Plot - This movie is mostly boring filler. There is a plot, but there are no stakes to it and it doesn't help that most of the human beings shown onscreen are too dumb to breathe. Sights and Sounds - Nothing in this movie that doesn't take place on the surface looks real - and even then there is still some unconvincing CG above ground. Maybe this movie looked good in theaters - I don't know - but most people aren't going to see this movie in theaters seeing as how this movie was released 10 years ago (more depending on when you're reading this review). If the only thing that your movie has to offer is that it looks kinda cool in 3D on a big screen, then you have failed. The sound mixing is also pretty bad. Message - True, I might not have been paying too much attention by the end (the only reason I watch this movie all the way through was because I was bribed) but I'm pretty sure the end message was that lying and stealing is good. The "protagonists" lie and steal all throughout the movie, and in the end they come out on top. Great message for the kids to learn.

Would recommend made in abyss. So far only 2 episodes are out, but I thought it was fine They're pretty much trying to explore a bottomless pit. It probably isn't bottomless, but no one has been to the bottom. There are otherworldly beasts Sounds interesting enough for me >Spelunking anime

Its Jules Verne and I remember having some very positive experiences with him at a very young age. So it has that going for it even if its not really the Jules Verne story, at least not in anything but name and concept.When I was little there was a made-for-TV movie that looked like it was intended to start a series that never happened and all the kids on the block ate it up.Unfortunately the made-for-TV movie was better.This version suffers from the same failure that Beowulf did....it was just too much.They toned it down a bit with the 3D, there were scenes that gave the viewer a break, albeit a short break.The problem is that once the action hit, once the story started to move along the 3D was too much and too constant.I remember vividly when they first arrived in Iceland....and that's about it.Afterwards I just remember all the 3D being too much and too CGI and in the end, I forgot I was watching a movie. They bombarded the audience with too much and, yes, it looked cool, but does that even matter when, in the end, you are too distracted to remember you paid for a movie, and somewhere in there, there was a story with actors actually acting it out...but they were well hidden beneath the 3D effects and you really didn't get to see them.Thank God movies learned how to tone it down and find a happy medium since.