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I have some Irish euro coins for sale. I know the germans are mad about them. If you know anyone who wants them, type in Irish euro on ebay, mine are $8.50 buy it now's. Thanks.. Tom
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I went to this movie really, because I am a movie fan. I have also loved Jackie Chan since he first started making movies. His slapstick martial sceens always make me giggle.
It could be that he is just so small and unassuming or that he sounds so funny when he speaks, but this little man will always ensure that I buy a ticket if his name is in the cast list.
My roaring laughter could be heard over all the heads of the little kids in the audience and most of the confused parents turned their heads every once in a while.
What do we really want from movies these days? When we go in for a movie, the expectations are now so much higher that over the last decade or so. Take Lord of the Rings or The Day After Tomorrow. Such money and special effects. Get this.... in the Lord of the Rings, there were a team of 5 people who took 3 years to painstakingly put together, by hand, all the chain mail that the varoius warroirs use!! After the costumes were finished, there had completeld removed their fingerprints from their thumb, forfinger and middle finger
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In the days of say, Alfred Hitchcock's the birds, when the sceens were extrodinarely slow and special effects next to nothing, if we told them that in the not so distant future you could build several skyscrapers with the money used to make one film, they would probably laugh straight in your face and throw you in the looney bin.
This movie really made me laugh. It was whitty, funny, charming and over all a great watch. I was particularly impressed by Cécile De France who appears very naturally on the big screen and more often that not, her smile seems to light up everything. I hope that she will appear again in the future.
Steve Coogan plays Phileas Fogg who is an out of the ordinary and rather excentric inventor who is set upon trying to shake off the old ways of science and step into the future. He accidentally meets a rather crazy chinaman, Passepartout, played by Jackie Chan, who is robbing an artifact, the jade buddha, from the english bank. This coinsides with the retirement of Fogg's valet who has quit after being used for one to many experiments in the name of science.
Passepartout, chased by a mob of angry policeman, falls from a tree into Fogg's garden. Knowing that the only way he could escape capture is to help the crazed inventor by becoming the next french valet, Passepartout reluctantly agrees to become the test subject in the latest experiment.
They team up and take on a bet from the head of the department of science that will take them around the world in 80 days, hence the title is born.
The film moves beautifully from country to country and manges to keep a 19th century feel throughout. Each new encounter involves some wonderfully comic martial arts from Passepartout and just a little hint of romance between Fogg and his new french aquaintance, Monique La Roche, played by Cécile De France.
The unexpected appearance of Mr California himself, Arnie, was a delight and I found him both convincing and likable. His muscular body still hold its own even after all these years.
The visit to Passpartout's village was very funny and the constant cry for 'Drink', by his mother set me off several times. The characters split here for a while as Fogg believes they are only helping him to benefit themself and not for him. After an unfortunate robbing in the american streets and a hasty reunification, the trio set off , amid the cheers of an enthuesatic crowd, to take a ship across the Atlantic to get back to home. The ship, an internation steamer, runs out of fuel and the crew offer to burn their boots for the cause..... Fogg then, upon a promise to replace the captain's skark attack lost nipples, asks him to allow the construction of a flying machine from the very hull, stern and bow of his own vessel. This machine is rather hilarious looking and is fired from a huge catapult.
The unlikely tro fly back home with several minutes to spare, they are met by Queen Victoria. I was delighted to see Kathy Bates as I love her as an actress and have great respect.
As in Harry Potter, John Cleese has a small appearance and is so Monty python, I could not help but weep with the laughter and nearly fell out of my chair.
So all in all, a great movie and I highly reccomend to take all the family to see it.
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The 2004 version ofAround the World in 80 Daysis an entertaining hodge-podge of adventure, ... more
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...
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The 2004 version ofAround the World in 80 Daysis an entertaining hodge-podge of adventure, ... more
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...
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Multi-skilled Chinese thief Lau Xing (Jackie Chan) has stolen a valuable jade Buddha. In ... more
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An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), has come up with the secrets to ... more
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...
Advantages: Slightley more watchable than one might expect, Coogan is quite funny Disadvantages: stupid plot, generally sensless, Chan is getting too old
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