![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, in a nod to modern tastes and attention spans, director Frank Coraci and writers David Titcher, David Benullo and David Goldstein amp the action with a purloined jade statue and a Chinese warlord with extremely dangerous press-on nails (played by the delightful Hong Kong actress Karen Joy Morris). #AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS 2004 FILM MOVIE#And, perhaps because the image of two bachelors traveling together in close quarters no longer registers the way it did once upon a movie time, a third globetrotter has been folded into the mix, a French painter named Monique (Cecile de France).Īs in the original novel much adventure ensues though with none of the casual affronts and racism Passepartout no longer calls Fogg “master” for one, and a band of attacking Sioux Indians has, gratefully, gone missing. To win his wager, Fogg employs horseless and horse-drawn carriages, various trains and one hot-air balloon, a slow-moving boat and a fast-moving flying machine - along with a bag brimming with cash, a head abounding in ingenuity and, courtesy of his valet, Passepartout (Chan), some fancy fist-and-footwork. ![]() The story, originally published by Verne in 1872, concerns an English stuffed shirt of unknown circumstances, Phileas Fogg (Coogan), who bets some fellow club members that he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. It may never be hip to be square, but as this genial film attests sometimes it’s sweet relief. Based on the Jules Verne novel, the basis of a 2-ton turkey from 1956 with David Niven, this light entertainment suggests that the class of movie known as “the family film” - think Fred MacMurray and a talking dog - has yet to be vanquished by product placements, vulgarity and unnecessary violence. “Around the World in 80 Days” sails along on a slipstream of pleasant scenery, amusing incident and the boundless charms of its appealing leading men, Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan: It’s an unexpectedly buoyant spectacular. ![]()
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