However, it is . It captures the spirit of old-school adventure serials but modernizes them with CGI spectacle. It’s a movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and that is its greatest strength.

Since he’s a teenager, he can’t go alone. Enter his stepfather, Hank (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson). Their relationship is strained—classic stepdad/stepson trope—but Hank steps up to help decode the message. They team up with a ragtag helicopter pilot (Luis Guzmán) and his daughter (Vanessa Hudgens) and crash-land on the titular island.