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...world-renowned piano virtuoso recalls his musical childhood in a new memoir, Journey of a Thousand Miles. Lang Lang will now take your questions...
...Still, that leaves a big chunk of audience: pre-teens and their parents. Now that they've had a chance to catch up with Kung Fu Panda and WALL-E, they get two PG-rated, live-action fantasies this weekend: Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D and the Eddie Murphy comedy Meet Dave...
...certain respects, they are the same movie: the adventures of fairly decent folks who literally fall into an alien world. Journey, starring Brendan Fraser, is based on the 1864 Jules Verne novel about a scientist and his accomplices who encounter a prehistoric world 4,000 miles below the Earth's surface. In Meet Dave, the travelers are extraterrestrials who have landed on Earth in search of a water supply for their parched home planet...
...Journey, which is emotionally sedate but determined to offer the full 3D experience, finds every excuse to send stuff jumping out at you: yoyos, rocks, dinosaur drool, the works. When Trevor spits water into the sink, you're the sink. The movie falls short only of theme-park 3D attractions, like Walt Disney World's "Honey, I Blew Up the Kids," where you get spritzed at the end. Journey also has a runaway-tram ride that will remind you of the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but which I'd like to think is a tribute...
...Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Directed by Eric Brevig; rated PG; out now To put on 3-D glasses, as cumbersome a visual aid now as they were in the '50s, is already to surrender to cheesiness. This loose take on Jules Verne's novel, with Brendan Fraser as the wayward scientist, is the ideal vehicle for stuff jumping out at you: yo-yos, waterspouts, antennae, dinosaur drool, the works. It's fun for tweens, a sedative for their parents...