Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a 2012 American science fantasy action-adventure film[4] directed by Brad Peyton and produced by Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson and Charlotte Huggins.

It stars Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Vanessa Hudgens, Luis Guzmán, and Kristin Davis.

It tells the story of a volcanologist who answers a distress call from his long-lost grandfather and mounts a rescue to a mysterious island with help from his militaristic stepfather and the crew of a helicopter tour.

Four years since his adventure in the center of the earth, Sean Anderson is caught by the police following a high-speed pursuit on his dirt bike that ends with him crashing into a neighbor's swimming pool.

His stepfather Hank Parsons arrives and learns from his police officer friend Jim that Sean broke into a satellite control center and talks the McGuillicuttys out of pressing charges.

Using the books' individual maps, Hank uses a tracing light box to make them a single island, complete with its location coordinates.

In Palau, Hank reluctantly hires helicopter tourism guide Gabato Laguatan and his daughter Kailani (on whom Sean develops an immediate crush) to fly to the coordinates, as nobody else is willing to take them.

To reach Nautilus' underwater cave, Sean and Hank create makeshift oxygen tanks and dive down 100 feet, but are nearly killed by a giant electric eel/moray eel hybrid.

The short film's director, Matthew O'Callaghan, noted that "Daffy Rhapsody was originally recorded in the early 1950s as part of a kids' album".

The short was originally going to play before Happy Feet Two, but was replaced with I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat to go along with the bird theme.

The critics consensus states: "Aggressively unambitious, Journey 2 might thrill tween viewers, but most others will find it too intense for young audiences and too cartoonishly dull for adults.

[19] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B grade, stating that "the movie flies by pleasantly, and is then instantly forgettable.

[citation needed] Randy Cordova from the Arizona Republic said: "Johnson can't save the movie, directed by Brad Peyton, from being a sloppy skip from one seemingly unrelated idea to the next".

[23] By January 2018 however, Johnson stated despite the financial success of The Mysterious Island, and although a third film titled Journey 3: from the Earth to the Moon (based on the 1865 novel) was intended, its development had been cancelled due to a lack of immediate interest and troubles in adequately adapting the novel.

In December 2021, Hiram Garcia confirmed that Warner Bros. Pictures wants a sequel film, though Seven Bucks Productions decided to delay development in favor of pursuing other projects.