Quotes
 [from trailer]
Sean: [running from a dinosaur] Haven`t you ever seen a dinosaur before?
Trevor: Not with skin on it!
[from trailer]
Trevor: [in complete awe] Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the center of the Earth.
[Sean and Trevor have fallen behind Hannah, tired of climbing]
Sean: I call dibs on the mountain guide.
Trevor: What? You`re thirteen; you can`t call dibs.
Trevor: [as they are climbing] Hey, look at all the shist.
Sean: What?
Trevor: It`s a metamorphic rock. Green shist, white shist, micro-guarded shist...
Sean: Oh. Shist.
Hannah Ásgeirsson: [all climbing down] Just make conversation with me Sean.
Sean: So, uh, Hannah. Do you come here often?
Trevor: [laughs] That can`t be the best you can do!
Sean: [yells] Hey! I`m trying to make converstation!
Hannah Ásgeirsson: It`s OK. No Sean, I don`t come here often.
[laughs]
Trevor: [sees Sean playing a PSP] What is that? A... Gameboy?
Sean: PSP.
Trevor: [holds up Max`s yo-yo] This was your old man`s PSP.
Sean: [seeing a deserted field in the center of the Earth] Dang, I wish I read that book.
Sean: Rubies...
Hannah Ásgeirsson: Emeralds...
Trevor: Feldspar!
Trevor: We`re still falling!
Sean: Oh, we`re in deep schist.
Hannah Ásgeirsson: No one gets dibs on the mountain guide.
[recognizing Mt. Vesuvius behind them]
Trevor: If your mother asks you where you went this weekend, tell her your uncle took you to Italy.
Trevor: What are you doing?
Sean: I am Googling at 30 thousand feet.
Trevor: Are you supposed to be doing that?
Sean: Welcome to the 21st century.
Trivia
Indie film maker Paul Chart (American Perfekt (1997)) was originally signed to write and direct the picture and penned the original script. Chart left the project, however, after a decision was made to shoot the film in 3-D, uncomfortable with the possibility it would become more `theme park ride` than the epic action-adventure film he envisioned. The Jules Verne novel was apparently one of his favorite pieces of literature. Chart was ultimately replaced with effects specialist Eric Brevig and the script was heavily retooled to emphasize the new 3-D format.
When Trevor opens the box of stuff belonging to his lost brother, he pulls out an odd wooden item, declares that he doesn`t know what it is, and sets it aside. The item is a Holmes Stereoscope, a device designed in 1861 by the American physician and writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, for the viewing of so-called "stereocards". A stereocard is like a postcard which has a Left-view and Right-view photograph mounted alongside one another. When viewed through this stereoscope, the photographs are merged into one 3-D image (which was later adopted for the ViewMaster viewers and cards). The Holmes Stereoscope was a great source of entertainment in the Victorian era. It was, in a sense, the Home Entertainment Centre of its day, as it transported its users to exotic places all over the world. People bought packs of stereocards for their entertainment - in much the same way as we buy DVDs today! (Thus, a character in a 3-D movie having no idea what a stereoscope is, makes for a cute little 3-D in-joke)
The character name "Maxwell Anderson" (the late brother of Brendan Fraser`s character) is an in-joke reference to the famous American playwright of that name, many of whose works have been filmed.
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