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| ACTORS: | Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Frank Coraci |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 16 June, 2004 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Buena Vista Home Vid |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 786936252477 |
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Customer Reviews of Around the World in 80 Days (Widescreen Edition)
Unimpressive Around the World in 80 Days, the latest adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel, is a mediocre bit of mish-mash, which while it has its moments, is an almost completely skippable movie.
Quite appropriately, Jackie Chan gets top billing in this movie, as this really is a Jackie Chan movie. Unfortunately, it has other stuff too. One doesn't watch Jackie Chan's movies for the writing or the acting or the special effects; one watches for the action. In the Jackie Chan portions of this film, the action is enough to entertain. At the other times, however, the bad acting, writing and effects are more than a little annoying.
No one comes off looking well in this movie. I wasn't demanding Oscar-caliber performances, just something that wasn't overly hammy. The dialogue, even if delivered well, is often weak and the special effects are unimpressive. Perhaps a good start would have been casting Rick Moranis as Fogg, since Moranis played essentially the same goofy inventor character in his "Honey, I Shrunk..." movies.
So there is some fun action and perhaps the under-10 crowd won't be put off by the flaws in this movie, but for anyone else, catching Shrek or Harry Potter (in the theaters at the same time) even a second time, is better than catching this one once. This is one for Jackie Chan fans only.
3.5 stars
I've been a Jackie Chan fan for twenty years and have seen most of his movies. Around the World in 80 Days has some clever ideas and good fight scenes. I liked how Jackie's character got his name and how they worked the story out to sort of make sense.
Similar to Shanghai Knights, this is a campy farce, but I still have a hard time with people not acting appropriate for the period. I don't mean racial or gender stereotyping; I mean people are acting with modern ideas and speaking English all over the world. For example, one scene shows our heroes in a Turkish hot tub (bath) as though it was California. Speaking of California, the Governor's role is rather offensive. Overall, I recommend this movie for Chan fans and fans of the Jules Verne story.
Fun family movie
It's a silly, fun movie. There's a little romance, but the young kids can handle it. There are lots of cameos, but it can be amusing to try and catch them all. No one gets seriously hurt or killed in this movie, except for one person, which is too bad, really (don't want to give it away).