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 Around the World in 80 Days (DVD)
Description: Genre: Television / Theatrical Release: 2004 / Director: Frank Coraci / Actors: Kathy Bates, Jim Broadbent ... / DVD ... more  Around the World in 80 Days (DVD) ... released 02 November, 2004 at Walt Disney Video / Features of the DVD: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC / The 2004 version of Around the World in 80 Days is an entertaining hodge-podge of adventure, comedy, and scenery from across the globe. Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People), an obsessively precise inventor, bets that he can circumnavigate the planet in 80 days--considered impossible in the Victorian era. In this version, Jackie Chan plays a Chinese peasant who retrieves a stolen idol from the Bank of England, then convinces Fogg to hire him as a French valet so that Chan can get back to his village. Chan supplies numerous spectacular fights against the forces trying to stop Fogg or get the idol, while Coogan is both funny and a surprisingly appealing romantic lead (he flirts with a fetching French painter who joins them). The various episodes--featuring cameos by Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Cleese, Owen Wilson, and Sammo Hung--are uneven, but a goofy good cheer prevails. --Bret FetzerNewest Review: ... its possible with the Director of the Academy’s chair as his ultimate goal. It’s a premise for a film that does actually ... more ... work. Of course this is a remake and not having seen the original or read Verne’s novel. This is a comedy for all the family but I imagine that with the amount of martial arts involved it’s quite removed from the original concept. As a comedy it works in the same way as Rush Hour or Shanghai Noon. The appeal of Chan’s comical martial arts performances, combined with Coogan’s ability to deliver some witty one liner’s does work reasonably well. There is however an overwhelming sense that this movie could have been so much...more |
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Around the World in 80 Days (DVD): I'm Phileas Fogg, Ah-ha (1682 words)
by calypte - written on 03.07.05 (Very useful, 1739 readings)
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"We have reached a golden age - anything that can be invented, has been." Perhaps it's because such a statement is so easy to believe of our own time that there remains such appeal in the science of Victorian London, when man flying in the air was nothing but a flight of fancy, and electricity was a novelty, let alone the myriad contraptions we now take for granted (and which are useless as soon as there's a power cut). Yes, it's fun to look back to a day when circumnavigating the globe in three months would be a feat almost beyond fancy! Jules Verne's classic tale of inventor Phileas Fogg and his wager (not a 'bet', you see - he's a ...
[Film] Around The World In 120 Minutes (866 words)
by Andy.mack - written on 08.05.07 (Very useful, 90 readings)
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Jackie Chan is one of those actors you can either take or leave. Since he broke into the main stream he has appeared in a number of Comedy’s and the majority of them have been very successful. So having enjoyed most of his previous films, when I’d seen he had teamed up with Steve Coogan, one of my favourite comedians it seemed like a good combination. So the recent chance to see Around The World In 80 Days seemed like one I shouldn’t pass up. Of course I was still open-minded, regardless of the cast as it still had the potential to be awful. The film is based, very loosely, on a novel by the great Jules Verne, incredibly loosely I may add. Coogan takes the ...
Around the World in 80 Days (DVD): Action, adventure and so much more. (231 words)
by james1985 - written on 14.04.07 (Useful, 30 readings)
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Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan star in Around the World in 80 Days adapted from famous book which has same name and was written by French writer Jules Verne. The book was written in 1870's when the French were chopping heads off and the rest of the world was advancing to industrial age. Central characters in the film are Phileas Fogg (Coogan) and Passpartout (Chan). The film opens with a robber running away from police. I liked this scene. it was fast and the camera gave a wide shot of what was going on which was very pleasing. In anger Fogg wagers that he will circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Impossible task, should he fail he will ...
