earlier CG Looney Tunes shorts that appeared before Happy Feet Two and Yogi Bear , this short will not appear on the home video release of the film it accompanied. In North America, the film earned a $6.54 million on its debut Friday, ranking fourth at the box office. [ 9 ] Over the weekend, it earned $27.3 million coming in third place. That was much higher than the original's $21.0 million debut. [ 10 ] Outside North America, Journey 2 began its run three weeks before its North American release. [ 11 ] It topped the box office outside North America for two consecutive weekends [ 12 ] and three in total. [ 13 ] It has surpassed the original's total outside North America. [ 14 ] Its highest-grossing region after North America is China ($58.4 million), [ 15 ] followed by Russia and the CIS ($17.6 million) and Mexico ($12.7 million). [ 16 ] Journey 2: The Mysterious Island has received generally mixed reviews from critics. It holds a "rotten" rating of 42% on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 125 reviews and an average rating of 5/10. The website's consensus is: "Aggressively unambitious, Journey 2 might thrill teen viewers, but most others will find it too intense for young audiences and too cartoonishly dull for adults". [ 5 ] Metacritic , which assigns a weighted average score out of 1–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 41 based on 27 reviews, indicating "mixed or average