Around The World In 80 Days DVD > Reviews

Advantages: Quite funny, good family film
Disadvantages: lacks something for more mature viewers

...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 lead role as Phileas Fogg, a crazy inventor with a number of inventions. A chance meeting with Passepartout (Chan) sees Fogg meet the perfect ... Read review

Advantages: You won't see many films like this; a guilty pleasure
Disadvantages: You won't see many films like this

Phileas Fogg is a Victorian aristo with a penchant for inventing things and living to a tight schedule so he can get the maximum out of his life. So he surprises himself when he takes up the dastardly Lord Kelvin’s challenge to circumnavigate the world in eighty days. If he fails, he agrees never to invent anything again. Accompanying him is his trusty valet Passepartout, who has stolen a sacred Buddha statue that he must return to his village in ... Read review

Advantages: Slightley more watchable than one might expect, Coogan is quite funny
Disadvantages: stupid plot, generally sensless, Chan is getting too old

...he were to make it around the World in 80 days he would be the new minister of science, but if he were to fail, he would forfeit his house and all his inventions. To tighten things up a bit the police are constantly after them for the know that Ling stole from the bank of England, and to make things doubly exciting(detect sarcasm) Phileas is not aware that the reason Chan is embarking on the quest is to return the sacred Jade Buddha which he stole ... Read review

Advantages: It was a great fun kids movie
Disadvantages: A little tacky at times

...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, ... Read review

Advantages: Good stunts
Disadvantages: The rest of the film

...bet that he can get around the world in 80 days. Ewan Bremner, Jim Broadbent and Cecille de France also co-star. The plot starts at a very fast pace with the story establishing itself within minutes. However, after a while, the story starts to drag. I was somewhat alarmed at one point to realise we were only up to day 41 with another 39 days of the journey to go. It felt incredibly long, even with some parts of the journey conveniently skipped ... Read review

Advantages: Fast and fun, great cast, especially Coogan, Broadbent, and Burke
Disadvantages: Storyline a bit weak

...and some of the characters, Around The World in 80 Days turns out to be one of the most entertaining films made in 2004. Starring Steve Coogan, Jackie Chan, Cecile de France, and Jim Broadbent, this madcap caper runs at breakneck speed throughout. Along with the wager of Phileas Fogg (Coogan) that he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days, we have the added factor of his being an inventor at odds with the Minister of Science (Broadbent). ... Read review

Advantages: Looks great, excellent stunts
Disadvantages: Dialogue and plot not outstanding

Around the World in 8- days is a British Comedy film. It stars Steve Coogan(aka Alan Patridge) as Phileas Fogg and has Jackie Chan as his butler. The original story is by Jules Verne and is set in the Victorian era. The plot revolves a bet that Fogg makes suggesting he can get around the world in just eighty days. The book is essentially a science fiction book. The film is only very loosely based on the book and has a subplot that is almost ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, Interesting Storyline, Good Figh Scenes,
Disadvantages: Not Enough Steve Coogan

...he is trying to get around the world in 80 days to become the new head of the academy of science and to save his life as an inventor after having a bet that he could do it. The current Head of Science is the bad guy in the film who is to blame for everything and tries to stop Fogg from making it around the world in 80 days. On another level you have Passportu (Which is a made up name in the film) who is trying to save his village in china by recovering ... Read review

Advantages: A film with everything
Disadvantages: Not everyone's cup of tea

...classic fighting styles. With travelling around the world being integral to the plot the story is very varied, making it interesting throughout. The film has not received the press coverage it deserves. The actors play their roles well allowing the caracters to be believable The storyline is excellent. The mix of actors though initially surprising in fact works ncredibly well. It has action, romance, deception, it has everything. Watch it in the ... Read review

Advantages: An adventurous and comical movie!
Disadvantages: Are there any?

...that he can make it around the world in only 80 days, which they think is rather foolish and ridiculous. Along the way, Passepartout uses amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the dangers they face.. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that's following them. Just as Fogg and Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg suspected of using the trip to be an excuse of their escape.. Their journey from London ... Read review

Advantages: good fighting scenes from Mr chan himself, Steve Coogan
Disadvantages: Boring, Too long waste of money

...commity that he could travel around the world in 80 days, which im sure you geussed just by reading the title. Apart from that the film encounters only a couple of fighting scenes which are not terrific but overall this film has a lack of imagination and doesnt really appeal to a wide variety of film lovers. While watching the film if you havent already left or having a nap you will be impatiently wainting for this catostraphy to finish wish eventually ... Read review

Advantages: hilarious!!! Can't stop Laughing
Disadvantages: It makes it around the world in 79 days not 80!!!

...about a professor who travels around the world in less than 80 days!!! As the story continues he finds a woman that he fancies!!! He also has a assisstant joining him on his travels!!! But as the story progresses we find out that his assisstant (played by Jackie Chan), stealed from his home town to give back!!! The assisstant was going to let him travel alone until he changed his mind and joins him yet again!!! At the end of the film The professor ... Read review