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Title: Not so Mysterious Island
Review: Many others have outlined the plot here. So I won't delve into that. As a fan of Patrick Stewart, I thought I'd give this a try. It was in the cheap DVD bin, so it wasn't a big expense. This movie is awful. I can't help but wonder if Stewart owed somebody a favor to appear in it. As pointed out, Nemo works best as a background character, but here he's front and center. He's set up nice (from a stranded on an island POV) digs. The characters seem to be just running around in the jungle, once Nemo abandons them to their fate. They encounter one cheesy special effect after another. Things are so bad that in the end, Nemo is scrambling on the deck of the Nautilus when he bumps one of the appendages on the sub, and it just topples over! Badly acted, downright monotonous at times, with lousy Grade-Z SPFX, this movie is for Jules Verne completists only.
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