Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Thieves, Martial Arts, Ninjas
Tagline: The race begins: June 16.
Plot: An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg (STEVE COOGAN), has come up with the secrets to flight, electricity, and even in-line skates, but the establishment has dismissed him as a crackpot. Desperate to be taken seriously, Fogg makes an outlandish bet with Lord Kelvin (JIM BROADBENT), the head of the Royal Academy of Science: to circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days! With his valet Passepartout (JACKIE CHAN) and thrill-seeking French artist Monique (CÉCILE DE FRANCE) at his side, Fogg is headed on a frantic, heart-pounding round-the-world race that takes our heroes to the world’s most exotic places by land, sea, and
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 ...a flavorless and disgraceful remake.  --David Levine (FilmCritic.com)
Instead of focusing on breathtaking cinematography, this Around the World in 80 Days sets up art direction as its hallmark. The various set pieces look good, and the computer animated transitions are cute. Buried under all of this visual glitz and star-power are the remnants of Jules Verne's tale.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The talents of Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan are tragically wasted in this disappointing reworking of the Jules Verne novel.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
That plot is forgotten and the movie falls from grace to clunkiness and continues its herky-jerky, way-unfunny trek around the amusement park. Who needs it?--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
There is very little here that will have anyone over the age of 10 enthused. C--Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
Disney was aiming for a family film and this may disappoint many of Chan’s hardcore fans, as he is very restrained. C+--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)
...director Frank Coraci is in over his head, and his first instinct is to throw visual effects at the screen to make problems disappear. Which is why this family film version of "80 Days" isn't the winner it should be. C---Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
It does contain several humorous moments sure to entertain the younger crowd it is aimed at and enough Jackie Chan fights to keep the adults watching.  --Joseph Kastner (Movie-Gurus.com)
Around the World in 80 Days is generally almost everything I don't like about movies -- predictable, derivative, and trite -- and yet, it won me over with surprising ease.  --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
The movie finds a happier middle ground for kids and adults than most family films, an oasis in our travels across the hot summer. --Blake Snyder (MovieWeb)
Remaking Around the World in 80 Days certainly wasn’t a very good idea; turning it into a fun comedy of sorts from an epic-adventure was an insurmountable task. Somehow, though, Corcaci and his cast make the movie somewhat of a worthwhile one, even though it does have more than a few drawbacks.  --Danny Baldwin (BucketReviews.com)
"Around the World in 80 Days" is an example of modern Hollywood's dumb way of thinking. There is no reason for a congenial Chinese martial arts expert to be in this story, as the Jules Verne novel is about Englishmen and Frenchmen and involves very little hand-to-hand combat. C--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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Jules Verne
20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Voyage to the Moon | David N. Titcher
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 | Jim Broadbent
Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
 | Karen Mok
Shaolin Soccer, Black Mask, Fallen Angels |
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 | Steve Coogan
Coffee and Cigarettes, 24 Hour Party People, Ella Enchanted | | Ian McNeice
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, White Noise | |
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