Around the World in 80 Days Movie Review 2004
I didn't wait the Ten Tigers of Kwantung!
Around the World in 80 Days (2004), starring Jackie Chan, currently has an IMDb user rating of 5.7. And they say it's i of the biggest flops in history, having failed to recoup more than than a fraction of its (estimated) $110 1000000 budget.
I say, give it fourth dimension! Overseas box office plus rentals and DVD sales - this picture will plough a turn a profit in the end. As I understand it, movie companies now make well-nigh of their money off the rental market, so I am rather mystified to hear that a picture show flopped just because it didn't earn back its toll at the U.S. box office in the first couple of months of release. Doesn't seem like a off-white and complete calculation to me.
Anyway, I go to the problem of wondering nearly this because I idea this was a great and delightful romp of a comedy, and I believe posterity will exist much kinder to it than "5.7". The flick is witty, beautiful, well-acted and contains nearly everything whatever kung fu gamble fan's center can desire. Before watching it, I idea information technology would exist more faithful to the original book, so I was surprised to see the Ten Tigers of Kwantung, and let me say the surprise was 100% positive. This pic is, admittedly first and foremost, a one-act. And it is something so rare as a literate i, which does not ridicule the premise it is based on. The movie makes the only right choice, namely to update the classic story and add together new levels and new ideas, which keeps it fresh and adventurous. Let's confront information technology, Jules Verne'southward scientific discipline no longer holds upward in the present solar day, then nosotros have to make modified versions of the stories for a modern audience (hence besides the very entertaining updated version of Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Core).
To see this movie as a remake of the 1956 movie - which seems to be the position that many reviewers take - is completely faulty. This is a riff/homage to the original novel, having nothing whatsoever to do with any previous movie version.
I thought Jackie Chan'south role in this movie was great fun, and I was very entertained throughout. I can't remember why information technology bombed in the U.South. I'thousand gonna get it on DVD very before long.
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Super-fun! And With great cameos.
What a fun movie. Far from perfect but far from boring! Nice cast, great choreographed action scenes performed by Jackie Chan and comedy delivered by Steve Coogan! Deserves a higher rating. Bang-up for a Sunday afternoon! 8/10
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Decent amusement, only forgettable.
Jackie Chan has had a mixed time of late in Hollywood. There was the good fun of Shanghai Knights and around that was the poor duo of Tuxedo and The Medallion. This falls somewhere in the centre. Around The World is adept fun. It'due south non great only information technology has charm and free energy and is the sort of mindless, competent movie making that is hard not to enjoy watching. It's forgettable, could take been much better, only all in all not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
The wait of the film feels very Disney. It is all very much orientated towards satisfying children. Information technology's near a cartoonish realism with the set design and costumes, clearly axiomatic with Philleas Fogs gadget laden home. The action in the film and the looks could probably have been more gritty only in whatsoever example it looks very colourful and the various settings all grab the middle. It is clearly evident that the moving-picture show had a lot spent on it, although some of the CGI furnishings are not of the standard expected from a $110 million film.
Cast-wise, Jackie Chan equally e'er is good. He's a comical genius and equally usual performs his own stunts. The fight scenes are skilful. Nothing compared to Chan's Hong Kong stuff simply far superior to much of his Hollywood action. Steve Coogan is someone I am a big fan of. He is the dog's hairy things as Alan Partridge. He is a comical genius. He doesn't seem as entirely natural here though and the character he creates doesn't always work. Information technology seems also cartoony at times especially the accent. Cecile De France is very good equally Coogan's honey interest. She is attractive, in a cutesy sort of way but she has a amuse and a likeability that works very well and the three leads seem to have a proficient chemistry. The rest of the cast are all fantabulous with a huge listing of supporting parts and cameo's including an excellent Jim Broadbent, a bully part for Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger, and it was great to see him on screen with Chan, as well Rob Schneider, Luke and Owen Wilson, John Cleese, Kathy Bates, and specially exciting to me as a Hong Kong activeness fan, Sammo Hung. The best supporting part for me was Ewan Bremner as the accident decumbent police sergeant.
Overall it'due south worth watching and is entertaining plenty merely don't look information technology to blow your socks off. ***
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It'southward a Fun Moving picture Folks, Non a Serious Re-brand of a Classic
There are classic films and fun films and even, very rarely, fun films that become classics. That'due south certainly true of Mike Todd's 1956 "Effectually the Globe in 80 Days" which captured much of the fantastical verve of Jules Verne's original story. That film also introduced, basically for the outset time, the idea of an onslaught of cameo appearances past famous screen stars, non always readily identifiable.
So now equally nosotros outset to broil at the first of a long, languid summer, new director Frank Coraci gives u.s.a. the irrepressible simply getting a bit long-in-the-tooth master acrobat/gymnast/kung-fu artist/stunt man Jackie Chan in a very loose accommodation of the Verne novel.
Chan is Passepartout, valet to the inimitably neurotic inventor, Phineas Fogg (Steve Coogan), simply in this moving-picture show his real identity is that of a Chinese fellow, Lau Xing, whose mission is to return a stolen Buddha statue to his village. Nefarious English lords have an imperialistic and self-aggrandizing program of their own which includes tearing downwards the Great Wall of China to get easy admission to jade mines. Jim Broadbent is superbly Victorian-evil as Lord Kelvin, the head of the Majestic Society of Scientific discipline who challenges inventor Fogg to succeed in traversing the Globe in 80 days or else cease and desist forever from engaging in scientific experimentation and Rube Goldberg-like inventing.
Passepartout, who swiped the Buddha, has both cops and Chinese killers, led past a woman, General Fang, in hot pursuit and his service to Fogg is a guise to go back to People's republic of china.
Arriving in Paris, they are joined by the beautiful semi-Impressionist painter, Monique La Roche played past the ascent young French actress, Cecile De France. Winsome and cute, De France clearly had a great fourth dimension making this motion-picture show.
Coogan plays Fogg very well-in fact he's the nigh interesting actor in the motion picture. He took his function of a Henry Higgins-type scholarly recluse who slowly falls in love seriously.
The story proceeds predictably. While Chan is the star, his functioning is simply a well-choreographed reprise of by made-in-the West films where he can show off his skills. It's "Shanghai Nighttime" all over again. Perhaps this is his concluding such flick equally his proclamation earlier this week that he intends to exist a "serious" player from now on pushed Iraq, gasoline prices and the Bush-Kerry campaign off the front pages.
Every bit with the original movie, cameo appearances are a minor just welcome treat. The guy who vanquish Mary Carey for governor of a western land terminal year is really devilishly funny as an Istanbul prince with a harem and an centre for acquiring Monique. The Wilson brothers play ii young and later to be famous siblings whose great stunt at Kitty Hawk supposedly inverse the world. And Cathy Bates seems to have had a tough time non laughing as she acted the part of the hardly imperious Widow of Windsor.
The gear up designs, cinematography and special effects are actually fantabulous. I can see several Oscar nominations forthcoming.
Don't take this movie seriously-it won't dislodge the original from the pantheon of lastingly memorable films. Savor it as the summer fun vehicle it's meant to be. Or in any event is.
8/10
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cute movie that is amend for those who oasis't read the book
Very unfaithful adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, still much more than entertaining than the tedious and wildly overrated only relatively faithful David Niven version. The moving-picture show is breezy and enjoyable, with some fun fight scenes, although it is completely inconsequential.
I think it would help when watching this motion-picture show to have non read the book, considering one cannot help just think that the extensive rewriting was non necessary. Passepartout's graphic symbol could have been expanded for Jackie without so many other changes. Irresolute Phineas to a bumbling, goofy inventor was conspicuously done in an endeavour to make the movie into another version of the buddy movie that has been Jackie's greatest friend in the U.S., but Coogan is unexceptional in the role and doesn't take a lot of chemistry with Jackie, so they really should have just done the character as written, which could have made for a much smarter flick.
In spite of plot holes and some silliness though, I enjoyed this, at least in that, scout-a-movie-on-Television-on-a-Sat-morning style.
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Don't expect too much
I watched this moving-picture show because I walked past the fix in Berlin where the ending scene was filmed.
It was the first fourth dimension I stumbled on a Hollywood flick set, and I was excited to run into the end outcome.
Though the picture did make me laugh out loud at times, I was disappointed by this film. It concentrated besides much on the comical mishaps along the journey. Information technology made too little mention of how they travel from one place to some other. It became a collection of funny clips shot in various places that are put together.
I was surprised by the number of big stars playing small parts: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson. Even Richard Branson was in information technology, which was a large little surprise.
This film is a nice pic for the family. Don't expect besides much though.
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An uneven packet
"Around the World in 80 Days" is not luckily Jackie's worst pic, that is however "Tuxedo".
What makes 80 Days such a taunting movie is its unevenness. The film switches between light-hearted to serious and even between diverse styles of one-act, from Jackie's archetype slapstick, to witty, to vain, to gross-out and even Python-style comedy.
Equally far equally fight-scenes get, they are well choreographed and Jackie tin luckily however kick ass. There were some parts of the film that didn't make a whole lot of sense and because of the massiveness of the plot information technology feels rather long. Luckily the changes in way keep the viewer on their toes but the climax was not very satisfying however.
All in all, Effectually the World in 80 Days is an amusing movie to watch. It has both bang-up and not-so-swell moments and may be a little too anarchistic for Jackie's fans, but a skillful picture show none the less.
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Three Screenwriters Named Dave
The credits roll, and I sarcastically plough to my friend, and whisper, "Dude, 3 screenwriters, and they're all named Dave."
Oddly enough, that turned out to pretty much sum up the whole flick.
It's not BAD. It leans toward good, except it'southward not then much a remake as it is a Disney-fication. Like 'Cinderella' and 'The Little Mermaid' before information technology, Disney takes the title of the story and a few major characters, and just turns information technology into a theme-park allure with emotional and dramatic resonance to match.
Frank Coraci is solely responsible for making Adam Sandler'due south star stick. "Happy Gilmore" was beautiful, only it didn't take the way of a Existent picture show, like his ii films with Coraci, "The Wedding Singer," and "The Waterboy." Those films work as FILMS, non just Adam Sandler vehicles.
I had high hopes for this 1, and for that reason, it splatted. Amusing lines here and in that location, and neat kung-fu choreography ruined by the same poor photography that screwed up "Rush Hour." This is martial arts. Do NOT shoot your actors from the waist up. Things happen too fast, people are moving in besides many directions. So in "80 Days," like in "Rush 60 minutes," I had a sense that at that place was martial arts taking place, but could barely see it. Coraci does pull the camera dorsum a few times, down to the ankles mayhap, so a few scenes are reasonably well-shot. Just non likewise equally they could accept been. In fact, the entire movie feels rushed, like they're trying to cram the whole script into the alotted time frame. Some "Indiana Jones"-type pacing would have worked wonders, fifty-fifty if it fabricated the pic 30 minutes longer. We're still talking nearly the volume 100 years later for a reason, y'all know.
What could take been fun for everyone turns into Disney-video wackiness that volition barely appeal to anyone over 13, and not at all to any fan of Jules Verne. And thus the former rule applies once once again.... the more screenwriters, the worse the film. Even if they're all named Dave.
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A Vain, Full Of Himself Arnie Is The Best Thing In This
Continuing my plan to watch every Arnie movie in social club, I come up to his cameo in Around The World In 80 Days.
Plot In A Paragraph: A bet pits a British inventor (Steve Coogan) a Chinese thief (Jackie Chan), and a French artist (Cecile De France) on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the earth in lxxx days.
A lot of your enjoyment of this motion picture volition depend on how funny you find Jackie Chan's slapstick routine and Steve Coogan. I dearest Coogan every bit Alan Partridge, but most of his other stuff is hit and miss at best. As for Chan, I take not enjoyed anything he has done in a long fourth dimension.
Arnie turns up about 40 mins in, every bit Prince Hapi, the homo with half dozen wives and whose favourite thing in the world, is a giant statue of himself. Hamming it up more than than he ever has, Arnold is conspicuously enjoying himself and is a lot of fun. He is the only brilliant spot in an otherwise dull thing.
Around The World In 80 Days is strictly for people who don't go to the cinema, and stay at domicile watching movies on DVD and Telly.
Around The World In lxxx Days grossed $24 million at the domestic Box Part and ended the yr the 97th highest gross in film of the year.
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Is this a Coogan or Chan flick?
Is this a Coogan or Chan movie? That'southward the only puzzling matter about this movie. For the rest simply an action packed adventure, with a little besides much romance on the side. fifteen years ago this movie would have been a slap-up success in the line of Goonies or a Disney flick.
Now a little overacting at times (the English cop who follows the principal characters for example) is compensated with great cameos, I won't give them away, but keep watching!
Coogan is only like in his goggle box series, the well-known expressions and faces are shown. Just his character, tin anyone be that naive at times???
Chan is sometimes the comedian with oneliners, and sometimes the histrion with bad lines. His fights rule, his acting nonetheless didn't. It didn't spoil the pic, but the plot that kept returning to the 'chinese connection' near did. I didn't expect a co-plot, just Fogg travelling around the world!!!
Don't believe the viewers describing this as a child-movie. If you lot liked Goonies in the past, read the volume and like Chan's unbelievable fighting scenes, you will exist satisfied. 6/10 from me.
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New accommodation archetype Jules Verne with a marvellous duo :Chan and Coogan
The film deals about a Victorian English gentleman (Steve Coogan),an inventor of fantastic inventions called Phileas Fogg and a Chinese thief(Jacke Chan)named Passapart.He takes a wager that he can circumvolve the globe around the earth in 80 days.They are accompanied by an enticing,likable creative person(Cecil De France).Just before the time they leave a valuable jade Buddha is robbed and the regime and president(Jim Broadbent) of Depository financial institution of England believe that Fogg is the guilty and they set out after him.Using various means of ship like balloons,trains,steamer,flying auto and following a way goes to Paris,Turkey,India ,China,The states, they are trying dorsum to London.In the traveling they know to historical personages similar Wright brothers(Owen,Luke Wilson),Colonel Kitchener(Ian McNiece),Lord Salisbury,Lord Rhodes and even the Queen Victoria(Kathy Bates). This funny picture is plenty of adventures,sense of humor,action packed,rip-roaring and spectacular outdoors.From the start to the final the entertainment and amusement is continued.Jackie Chan,as always ,utilizes his astonishing martial arts(without computer generator) abilities along with Sammo Hung(Martial Constabulary) to defend the friends against the enemies and from the many risks,odds during the unsafe trip.Announced a diverseness of cameos by known actors as Arnold Schwarzenegger,Mark Addy(steamer captain),John Cleese(a police force)Luke,Owen Wilson.. .The colorfully cinematography is well reflected on sensational landscapes by cameraman Phil Meheux. Lively music by Trevor Ravin.The film is correctly directed past Frank Coraci.The movement picture will like to Jacke Chan fans and adventures cinema enthusiastic. Anothers version about the Jules Verne novel are :the archetype by Michael Anderson with David Niven and Cantinflas,and the Boob tube adaptation by Buzz Kulik with Pierce Brosnan and Eric Idle.
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Hugely Entertaining Family unit Adventure One-act!!
Many fans and critics slated Jackie Chan's globe-trotting take a chance comedy upon release, leaving it to be one of the years biggest flops and a moving picture tossed to the side. I don't know what they were watching, but I personally plant it to be highly entertaining for its 2-hour running time, with genuinely hilarious comedy, and showed Jackie as his well-nigh 'Hong-Kong-Chan' in any Hollywood production he'south done to date!
Subsequently stealing the Jade Buddha from the Bank of England, Jackie hides out by blow in the house of eccentric inventor, Phileas Fogg, taking the role of his valet and suffering as a guinea-pig of his mad inventions. During a meeting at the Regal University of Scientific discipline, the new Valet tricks Fogg into a bet with the caput (Jim Broadbent in a hilarious over-the-top role) to circumnavigate the earth in fourscore days for his position. Jackie's ploy of course, is to become the Jade Buddha back to his village from where it was stolen (unknowingly) by Broadbent, and the Black Scorpion Gang led by the wonderful Karen Mok from And then Close, Black Mask, and A Chinese Odyssey i & ii.
As they set off, the evil Broadbent and Mok lay out a number of obstacles effectually the world to stop (or kill) them on their journey, which results in a collection of mad-cap activity scenes, and very funny situations...
I only love this movie! I never tire of it and even though it has its flaws (of course), information technology never fails to brand me laugh-out-loud on a number of occasions. I must admit, director Frank Coraci was an odd selection for the gig. The man had but fabricated ane serious contained flick (Murdered Innocence) before going on to bring u.s. 2 of Adam Sandlers biggest hits in The Hymeneals Singer, and The Waterboy. Unfortunately for him, afterwards this and the fantastic Sandler film Click, he seems to have went downhill. I'd half-expected this kind of project to accept been handed to someone similar Tom Shadyac, or even Chris Columbus, but the fact is Coraci does a damn proficient job!
Yeah, everything is played in a theatrical, over-the-peak, tongue-in-cheek kinda way, simply that'due south what makes it work! Taking its cue from the classic David Niven version, this journeying really shakes things upward with a ton of slapstick, larger-than-life characters, unbelievable cameos from any amount of people, and of course, color! I don't retrieve I've seen a more than colourful picture show in a long time. Fifty-fifty as they travel from country to land, we are treated to a beautifully animated transition that was and then unlike and looked fantastic, patently inserted because its running time was already lengthy. Imagine if they had stopped at every country?
If only Netflix had been nearly in 2004, this actually would accept made an incredible series for all involved and probably a much bigger hit!
As it was mostly geared towards a western audition, I believe that people forgot that this was a Jackie Chan movie. He is the producer, the fight choreographer and of course, the star. And even though the famed tale of Fogg's journey is the title of the film, this is Chan's story of getting a sacred relic back to his people. Steve Coogan plays Fogg wonderfully, and makes a slap-up partnership with Jackie every bit an on-screen duo and does have many hilarious moments along the style, as well as winning the girl at the finish - which as a Chan film did seem very odd, simply hey...
That girl is played by the wonderful Cecile De France, who is outrageous and a scene stealer for the about of information technology. Her charm and comedy was such a groovy addition, and while they may seem like the oddest trio of people to travel the world together, they really do piece of work.
And of course, there is the action!
As I mentioned, this is about the all-time Hong Kong styled Jackie Chan in a Hollywood picture nosotros have seen. His fight scenes, comedy and stunt work are all archetype Jackie and while toned downwards somewhat for the family audience, they withal offer some amazing moments of imagination, physicality and martial arts. Of grade, the highlight of information technology all takes place back in People's republic of china when Jackie is joined by the infamous x Tigers Of Kwantung, led by Sammo Hung himself who plays the legendary Wong Fei Hung. Daniel Wu, leader of the Black Scorpions, gets to face off in a i-on-1 confronting Jackie, which is cracking almost harking back to the days of Chan's Drunken Master, and even The Young Primary as he uses a wooden stool as a weapon. Its likewise but a bonus to come across Hung and Chan back on the big screen together, and such a shame they didn't get Yuen Biao involved as well which would have been ballsy!
Karen Mok gets some great action likewise as their big end fight happens in the caput of the (still unbuilt) Statue Of Liberty. Its fun, its inventive, and a great scene overall...
Around The Earth In eighty Days is a lot of fun! Its supposed to be silly and cheesy, its supposed to have over-the-top acting (highlighted mainly by Trainspotting star Ewen Bremner and of course, Broadbent and even Arnold Schwarzenegger in his hilarious cameo), and its supposed to be a classic take a chance comedy that makes you experience skillful and express mirth difficult at its nonsense. And for me, it does all of that in the most entertaining of ways.
Love it!
Overall: Underrated and lost, Jackie Chan's Effectually The World In fourscore Days is one of his all-time Hollywood movies ever and hugely entertaining!
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Felt similar 80 days
"Around the Globe in fourscore Days" is a galumphing, elephantine remake of the movie that won the Best Picture Oscar of 1956. Both films are, of course, based on the 19th Century Jules Verne archetype in which Victorian nobleman Phileas Fogg makes a wager with the skeptical members of the British Majestic Academy that he can circumnavigate the earth in the time alluded to in the championship. Aided and abetted by his trusty valet and a young woman he picks up forth the mode, Fogg employs many so state-of-the-art traveling methods - gasbag airship, locomotive, steamship etc. - to help him reach his goal.
This adaptation completely misses the charm and epic experience of both the novel and the original movie version. The suave and sophisticated David Niven has been replaced past the bland and unattractive Steve Coogan, who plays Fogg as a sort of absent-minded professor type rather than the bon vivant man-of-the-world that Niven fabricated of him. Jackie Chan, who was instrumental in getting the film made in the commencement place, is a completely inadequate substitute for the delightful Cantinflas, a huge star in Latin America who made his proper name in America with the first moving picture. Chan's performance consists almost entirely of smiling coyly and mugging for the camera. Cecile de France is grating and annoying in the role initially enacted past the peerless Shirley MacLaine.
Where the original film soared effortlessly into the rarified stratosphere of charm and imagination, this version lumbers along heavy-laden and earthbound, even going and then far equally to add together a dreary subplot about a stolen holy relic and Chan's efforts to return it to his native village in Mainland china.
The 1956 version was famous for featuring dozens of major stars of the fourth dimension in various cameo appearances. This new adaptation dispenses with this conceit entirely, with the one exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who appears for a few moments as a Turkish sultan, in a performance that is and so intensely embarrassing that one is tempted to look away out of compassion for the human. Only then that's pretty much the audience'south reaction all the way through this film.
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Wouldn't Savor It Even At 80 Tries.
Warning: Spoilers
Around the Globe in eighty Days (2004): Dir: Frank Coraci / Cast: Steve Coogan, Jackie Chan, Celile De French republic, Jim Broadbent, Arnold Schwarzenegger: Useless remake nigh challenge that stretches to about 80 hours. It stars Steve Coogan as an inventor in the early century who undertakes a challenge to venture the world in lxxx days. He is joined by Jackie Chan who is wanted for the theft of a sacred object that was stolen from his village. He joins Coogan out of coincidence in guild to lay low from the law. They are joined by an creative person, played by Celile De France who wishes to get abroad. Totally lame from outset to terminate made up completely of subplots. Managing director Frank Coraci allows everything to unravel. He previously directed films featuring Adam Sandler merely here he is taking a major step back. Coogan is standard effect hero who goes from run into to run into without care. Chan is basically there to fight, which he does in nigh every scene he is in. De France as the artist is basically a potential romantic interest and generates footling intendance. Jim Broadbent overacts as a ruthless governor in another standard office. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes an embarrassing cameo as Prince Habi just earlier his existent life function every bit Governor of California. The production is massive simply the screenplay is thin at all-time. They should have traveled the world to find a hole big enough to bury this crap in. Score: ii / 10
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A Really Good Film Waiting for Discovery
Far from perfect this motion picture is a barrel of laughs. Despite off-white reviews and dismal box role in its kickoff weekend this is a fun mode to spend 2 hours. This motion-picture show is destined to be discovered and hailed on dvd or cable as a picture people regret not having seen earlier.
This is spoofy retelling of the classic Verne tale that is no meliorate and no worse than the classic David Niven film. Anyone who says its not the original story or motion-picture show haven't seen or read either recently, since both accept their ain flaws.
Here we have Jackie Chan using the trip around the world as a cover for returning a jade buddha to his home town. This is cause for several wonderful fights, frequent witty exchanges and a whole lot of fun. Its not brain surgery its merely a lot of fun and if y'all give yourself over to it yous'll have a boom.
The only depict back is that in that location are a couple of times the movie gets the wrong kind of silly (some or Arnold'south sequences for case). Thankfully the motion-picture show e'er recovers and you return to smiling goofily at the madness on screen.
Don't believe the negative hype- see it for yourself.
Viii out of Ten
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Jules Verne trashed past the Disney Studios
Each time I meet a Disney Studios film I need to check and inquire myself what are my expectations. The reply is that I would similar to run across a picture show that entertains me and my kids as well, that catches and transports me in a fantasy globe, that moves me, amuses me, and interests me enough to avoid me having to look at my watch and check time each 5 minutes.
Well, with this latest Jules Verne inspired production, I did not cheque my watch every v minutes, but every ten. The pic is quite the liberal adaptation of Jules Verne'due south archetype novel you would expect nowadays, but this is not the problem. The problem is that little of the Jules Verne discovery and adventure spirit makes it to the screen, and what takes the empty space is the kind of comedy that we have seen too much lately from the Disney Studios - bad comedy for children, looking like the studios gear up the kids for the bad one-act for adults they volition watch in ten years or and then. Likewise, Jules Verne had a big respect for science, and tried to exist accurate in his clarification of engineering, as well in his predictions. The huge licenses the authors took in describing science and art at the terminate of the 19th century would accept concerned him.
Acting is average at best, including the short appearances from Arnold Schwarzenegger in his last not-political interim role and Kathy Bates. The calculator graphics are great, well integrated in the story and trying to say something virtually the fourth dimension and places, simply the actors seem to play a Boob tube comedy in expensive opera sets. And yes, I never was a fan of Jackie Chan.
Fair entertainment overall, simply a bad service to Jules Verne. 4 out of 10 on my personal calibration.
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Heart-warming retelling of a classic story
Much has been said concerning the lackluster box office revenue generated by this endeavour. My simply comment towards this condition is to say that it was not marketed properly. Nigh Americans had no idea this movie was fifty-fifty being made. There was no "media blitz" to hype it, and the proceeds reflects that neglect.
This is NOT a remake of the original picture show. It is also Non a true-blue adaptation to Jules Verne'south literary work. What it IS, is a delightful comedic (cartel I say "parody?") version of a story many of united states of america have enjoyed. Information technology is labeled a "Disney" production, but in truth, Disney only distributed it. But it is made with Disney's involvement firmly in mind and is a fun, audacious, and fifty-fifty rousing family movie.
Now as a version of Around the World in lxxx Days which lists Passepartout before Phineas (hither, known as Phileas) Fogg, this had no business pulling itself out of the mire. Passepartout is a supporting character, not the main. However, I must say that no matter who the principle grapheme was, Jackie Chan's Passepartout was the star. Steve Coogan proved himself more than capable of commenting the Phineas/Phileas role and did and then with a crisp dignity one can simply hold in regard.
Jackie Chan exhibits some of his most inspired comedic martial arts to date in this production and I daresay it's worth the price of the DVD just to see him. Many fans were beginning to wonder if he yet had "it." Personally, I loved "Tuxedo" and "Medallion" simply plain there were doubts. Not anymore. Jackie Chan demonstrated, equally just he could, that he still has what it takes to make his fans happy.
At present, equally I indicated earlier, this was not the accident-by-blow retelling of Verne's vision. But that did not have away one ounce of enjoyment. It was entertaining and deftly captured the spirit of Verne'southward piece of work. True, the original work was not a comedy, but if you've read Jules Verne, y'all'll understand that he did accept a wonderful sense of sense of humor. He included characters in his works which were present for no other purpose than comic relief. Jackie Chan's Passepartout fits that mold perfectly.
This product possesses every aspect held beloved in the novel. There is adventure, comedy, cute vistas from smashing locations all effectually the world, and inventions. It presented a cute culminating blend of many of the themes from Verne'southward works. There are many gentle reminders of Verne'due south vision and his novels scattered all through this attempt. Every bit someone who loves Jules Verne's novels, I felt proud for him to have been shown the respect and admiration he deserved.
This is a fun, entertaining, and heart-warming retelling of a classic story.
Bank check out Frank Coraci's nod to his "Wedding Singer" and "Waterboy" days (and the Adam Sandler crowd) with a very short speaking part from Rob Schneider.
Information technology rates an eight.ii/ten from...
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surprising
A comedy. and interesting hommage to the novel past Jules Verne. this is its significant. and source of charme. proficient cast, prissy performances, a lot of delightfull surprises. and Jules Verne for a new generation. surprising for the perfect residuum between martial arts and original story and for the cracking fun. and, sure, non the final, for inspired courage to suggest something a chip extravagant and...expected. because information technology is more than an adaptation in ordinary sense. information technology is a splendid bear witness. so, the new "Around the World in fourscore Days" !
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Not bad
I aqueduct surfed between this and the cricket. Turned out to be a pretty proficient combination
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Well... what did you expect, really?
Effectually the World in fourscore Days tells the famous tale of Jules Verne... with a twist. This fourth dimension around we follow the likes of Passepartout (Jackie Chan), a Chinese man with a mission (it'south got something to do with the British Museum, I wasn't really paying attention).
The pic goes for sillyness, so don't expect a true adaptation of the Verne volume. Having said that, the movie still was disappointing, had only so-and-and then furnishings and felt similar it was made in a fortnight or then.
Surely, there must be other, ameliorate movies for the kids to get to this summer, so only watch this i if yous really have zip meliorate to do.
4/10.
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Don't Even Use That Title!
I like Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. They each have a certain charm. I've e'er been amazed what Chan can practice with his martial arts in most any situation. Why pretend to do a remake of this book. It isn't and it'south dishonest and misleading. Why non just make upwardly some other title and go ahead and have fights and pratfalls and all the other stuff that appears hither. Other than the time matter, at that place is admittedly nothing left over. The 1956 version was pretty bad but this 1 is really bad. The characters come and become with about no commitment to a plot. Everything is a joke; at that place are pauses to deliver the one liner, merely like any Jackie Chan film. Again, I retrieve that he's a martial arts genius but information technology but doesn't piece of work here. The greatest sin a motion-picture show tin can do is pretend to be something information technology is not. Bad movies don't e'er aspire to be adept. This is a big budget, basically unfunny, rambling flick.
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One Large Mess
Effectually the Earth in fourscore Days stars Steve Coogan as Phineas Fogg, a 19th century English gentlemen who has made a wager that he can traverse the world in less than three months forth with an adventurer named Passpepartout, played past Jackie Chan. Using the various ways of transportation during that era, they encounter many famous and wacky characters including the Wright brothers.
Whereas the book was engaging and inventive, the flick is deadening and flat. The film captured very niggling of the book'due south magic and information technology didn't really seem to follow the aforementioned formula. The producers fabricated it into a child's film which is okay but that doesn't mean the movie has to be and so lame. Seriously, information technology'due south like the producers just kept the title and changed everything into a corny family movie. They didn't even do a skilful job at that either. There is very niggling here to keep the kids interested and it's too featherbrained for most adults. There is simply no center and soul with this flick. It only felt like a cash in to a pop book with very niggling idea actually put into the project.
The acting is very embarrassing and no one gives a good operation. Jackie Chan tries his best and his efforts are wasted. He unremarkably is pretty enjoyable to watch on screen though he is given very footling to work with. Steve Coogan tries way as well hard to be funny and he ends up being very annoying. As well, he is not a very proficient leading man because he lacks charisma. Cécile De French republic is the concluding main add-on to the cast and she gives a bland performance, nothing special about her. In that location are a bunch of cameos and virtually of them aren't very proficient. They are very unnecessary and they add together nil to the motion-picture show nor do they really take anything abroad.
It's pretty surprising that the director of the Wedding Vocaliser couldn't brand this film work. He had Jackie Chan to piece of work with and the source fabric very adept. Still, he just dropped the brawl on the project. In that location were a bunch of cheesy scenes that took place in unlike parts in the world and none of them were really that good. There were some funny moments and some interesting scenes, nothing really outstanding though. The pic is also pretty harmless and so that was also overnice. Other than that, there is very little here to actually recommend. In the terminate, this corny family unit film is ameliorate left on the shelf. Rating 4/x
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Jules Verne would sue!
This will undoubtedly become one of the biggest flick flops of 2004 and you have to blame the studios for thinking that their main star was a huge box office draw which he isn't in America. I had predicted months agone that this would exist a flop and if I could predict this what are the studios excuse? Story is based (sort of) on the Jules Verne story but here the master character is Passepartout (Jackie Chan) who has robbed the Depository financial institution of England and stolen a jade buddha that belongs to his village in China. The police are looking for him so he gets hired every bit a valet for an inventor named Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) who makes a bet with the president of the Explorers Club Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent) that he can travel around the earth in 80 days or quit as an inventor. Passepartout uses this every bit an opportunity to get a complimentary ride back to China and together they venture off merely Lord Kelvin has some tricks up his sleeve to try and stop him.
*****SPOILER ALERT*****
Lord Kelvin has hired a Chinese warlord named Full general Fang (Karen Mok) to try and stop them forth with sending an undercover constabulary officer to follow them. Fogg and Passepartout stop at many places on their journeying and while in France they meet a pretty and plucky adult female named Monique La Roche (Cecile De French republic) who comes along with them much to the chagrin of Fogg. During many of their stops they run into Fang and her henchmen and a battle ensues where Passepartout uses his martial arts to assist them escape. While in China Fogg discovers that Passepartout is really Lau Xing who returns the jade buddha only Fogg is injure that he was lied to only their journey continues and the days beginning to dwindle down.
This moving picture is directed by Frank Coraci who has worked mainly for Adam Sandler and while the picture show is directed with a modicum of energy you lot have to enquire yourself if you really desire another version of this story starring Jackie Chan. The film moves along at a pretty quick pace and every fourth dimension the characters stop long enough to speak a few lines of dialogue Chan gets involved in a fight where he has to use karate. I guess it's 2004 considering Hollywood has remade a archetype story and added karate! This film is totally preposterous and if Jules Verne were alive today he would hire a team of lawyers and sue anybody he could. I didn't hate this film and it'south really not worthy of anyone'due south real attention but this is a misfire and an expensive 1 at that. Fifty-fifty with a first rate cast this would have been a difficult sell merely to make a film that costs over 100 million dollars and the big star is Jackie Chan is ludicrous. One of the few things that I did similar was the actress De France who brings legitimate charm to her part and she reminds me of Brittany Tater. Many cameos are sprinkled throughout the moving-picture show like Macy Gray, Rob Schneider, Marker Addy, John Cleese, Luke and Owen Wilson and Kathy Bates pops up towards the cease as the Queen of England. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a vain Turkish Prince wearing a dark curly wig and trying not to sound Austrian and I'll let everyone make their own decision on this role. The people responsible for the making of this film should have known amend and if they need aid on what types of films they should or should not brand they can hire me, I'm available!
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Infantile and Aiming For Cheap Laughs: There Are Better Versions
The adverts for this one state that this movie is "A Fantastic Risk for The Entire Family!" Well, if your family enjoys bombastic jokes, urination jokes, bodies existence slammed against walls, people screaming when tossed out of windows, CGI effects instead of bodily location shots, a totally charmless atomic number 82 (Steve Coogan), Jackie Chan stunts written into Jules Verne and so Jackie Chan would peradventure sell the film, and infantile joke afterwards infantile joke, yep, your family might beloved it.
Instead, the family--and adults--can enjoy a made-for-TV version with Pierce Brosnon, who plays the traveler Fogg with keen intrepidity, and the long, lavish production takes nifty pains to be true to the spirit of Jules Verne: it'southward a fascinating story told with verve and some real thrills.
And then there'due south the original Oscar-winning Best Movie of 1956 version which played using the giant screen process Todd-A-O and filled theatres for years. And today, unless you lot watch the original 1956 in Letterbox on a big screen, it can look merely like a glorified travelogue--merely when information technology opens up on a big home screen in stereo sound, David Niven and Cantiflas withal charm, the scenery (and balloon ride) are breathtaking, and the cameos a delight--recall Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Buster Keaton, Noel Coward, George Raft, Red Skeleton and dozens more.
Who pops upwards in the new Coogan/Chan version? Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rob Schneider. Now you know. It's adequately low-course fuel.
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"Everyone around the earth, bring together the celebration!"
This movie provides a brilliant new spin on Jules Verne's novel past having Phileas Fogg be an eccentric inventor and Passpertout be a Chinese thief who joins his service to escape the constabulary. The actual journey around the world in the movie is very enjoyable as they hook upwardly with young artist Monique and attempt to circumnavigate the globe in fourscore days.
Jackie Chan is as vivid as always at the loftier-flight action and the concrete comedy. Steve Coogan thankfully plays information technology straight for the film equally Fogg, whilst Jim Broadbent makes a suitably hateful villain of the slimy Lord Kelvin. TRAINSPOTTING'south Ewen Bremner also shows up every bit an inept law inspector, constantly being physically abused in the name of comedy. There are besides cameos galore from the Wilson brothers and Macy Gray to Governor Arnie and Kathy Bates. A friend of mine described this picture equally being good fun for all the family and I must say that I agree.
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