Unlike the other movies, 3D effects in this movie will invite spectators to participate in expeditions to the belly of the earth. A professor named Max disappeared in mysterious. Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) siblings Max, which together act as expert volkanologi only find novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, which contains a password, the password is written that his brother, Max. Trevor sure, the code can reveal the mystery of the loss of Max. For that, he together with Sean (Josh Hutcherson), Max sons aged 13 years, will visit Iceland adventure to find the presence of Max.
Arriving in Iceland, they meet Hannah (Anita Briem) that accompany them are willing to climb mountains, in accordance with the instructions written in the book Max. However, the celestial lightning strike that came repeatedly, this three-climber to sink in the hole is deep. Unsuspected, the hole even bring them to travel in the other world that is not touchable human, in the belly of the earth.
How do they exit from the hole that many hundreds of hundred-kilometer distance? Moreover, because the temperature heats the oceans, they must immediately find a way out.

Unlike with other adventure films, director Eric Brevig presents the other on this movie, which shines a small bird that accompany Sean, a stone magnets that can move, the fish bertaring the fly, all the visual effects and three-dimensional effects in this movie so alive.