Witty intrepid traveller Michael Palin attempts to recreate the fictional voyage of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. Not only that, he accepts the challenge to use only those modes of... more
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best. In 1873 Jules Verne, wrote Around the World in 80 Days, in which Phineas Fogg attempted to circumnavigate the globe in no more than the titular timespan. In 1...
best. In 1873 Jules Verne, wrote Around the World in 80 Days, in which Phineas Fogg attempted to circumnavigate the globe in no more than the titular timespan. In 1...
best. In 1873 Jules Verne, wrote Around the World in 80 Days, in which Phineas Fogg attempted to circumnavigate the globe in no more than the titular timespan. In 1989, for this ten-part (eight-hour, 20 minute) BBC documentary, and using only the modes of transport available to the novelist's intrepid traveller, Michael Palin attempted to turn the fiction into reality. Hiring Palin was the masterstroke which ensured the series became a television milestone, for despite being one of the comedy-surrealists of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the perpetrator of Ripping Yarns, he proved to be the most amiable travelling companion imaginable. His charm and ingenuity, coupled with the race-against-time format and the opportunity to visit at second-hand places most of us will never see, made Around the World in 80 Days an unmissable television event. So much so that Palin soon returned to travel from Pole to Pole (1992), before taking an epic journey round the Pacific rim for Full Circle (1997). --Gary S. Dalkin
because he wants a peaceful life. However, the very evening he starts work, his master tells him that they are going to make the tour of the world. Fogg had bet twenty thousand pounds that they can do it in eighty days. But, someone is trying to stop Fogg from winning his bet.
Plot: The complete story of Michael Palin's circumnavigation of the world in under eighty days with air travel totally forbidden.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC
Release date: 22/09/2003
No of Discs: 3
Catalogue No: BBCDVD 1221
Barcode: 5014503122126
DVD Description
Witty intrepid traveller Michael Palin attempts to recreate the fictional voyage of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. Not only that, he accepts the challenge to use only those modes of transportation that would have been available to Fogg. He encounters many strange and unexpected things while racing against against the clock.
Languages
Main Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Exclusive Interview With Michael Palin
Advantages: Good for little kids Disadvantages: far too long
...Around The World In 80Days felt like a very long movie with a very very predictabel ending. I suppose younger people would enjoy the double cross type of sinister plot, colorful Kung foo fighting scenes with Jackie Chan and the crazy charitcters that the group come across in their journey to travel around the world in the eithty day dead line.
Steve Coogan is not too hot in Around The World In 80Days Coogan's performance is very wooden and dissapointing as i really like him as an actor normally.
The movie has been out on dvd for a while now and I suppose had been semi sucessful because of the cast?!
Around The World In 80Days - kids only or you might fall to sleep for 80days...
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Advantages: The best travel documentaries ever. Disadvantages: Finding enough time to watch it all.
...There are travel documentaries and there are those featuring Michael Palin. This superb boxset is not so much a who's who of travel, but more a where's where.
Palin's gentle manner and off-beat humor if as much part of the entertainment as the destinations he visits. Even if you don't like geography, you'll be hard pressed to find exploration of our planet from the comfort of your own sofa any better than this.
Tech Spec:
16 discs covering seven Michael Palin television series filmed for the BBC.
A total running time that runs into days not just hours.
Boxset contents:
Hemingway Adventure - retracing the footsteps of writer Ernest Hemingway
Around The World In 80Days - Jules Verne fiction put to the test
Pole To Pole - from North to South across Northern Europe, Russia & Africa
Full Circle - a 50,000 mile trip around...
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Advantages: Hours of fun for all the family Disadvantages: not as funny as Monty Python
...First of all apologies for the title, the small print should read *product may contain less than 80 DVDs.
But I just had to!
What you do get with this amazing boxedset is all seven of Michael Palin's globe trotting travel experiences, namely: Around the World in 80days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Great Railway Journeys, Hemingway Adventure, Sahara and Himalaya. You actually get 16discs, containing around 40 hours of televisual viewing pleasure.
If you've never heard of Michael Palin, essentially he is a very pleasant, easy going chap, who was asked back in 1988 if he would like to recreate Phileas Fogg's fictional journey around the world in 80days. Following the success of that series, someone at the BBC must have decided that his relaxed presentation, mild bewilderment and genuine amazement at the foreign places and customs he...
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