Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kirpianuscus A comedy. and interesting hommage to the novel by Jules Verne. this is its meaning. and source of charme. good cast, nice performances, a lot of delightfull surprises. and Jules Verne for a new generation. surprising for the perfect balance between martial arts and original story and for the great fun. and, sure, not the last, for inspired courage to propose something a bit extravagant and...expected. because it is more than an adaptation in ordinary sense. it is a splendid show. so, the new "Around the World in 80 Days" !

Mihai Toma The classic Jules Verne story receives a new approach, in which Jackie Chan plays a big role. Instead of focusing on the actual story and the main characters, it all resumes on endless Kung Fu fights, Jackie style.I find this idea really inappropriate, not to say stupid. It's all a big parody, where absolutely nothing is taken seriously and every single scene ends up with a fight. The characters' scripts are idiotic, the course of events is stupid and the whole movie seems like cheap comedy. Too bad that great actors (including Coogan, Schwarzenegger, Wilson and so on) wasted their talent and time for this movie. To see the good part, it had some good landscapes, some great-looking computer generated transitions and some funny moments, but all of them pale in comparison with its downsides. A bad movie in my opinion, good time wasted...

Leofwine_draca This film is less a modern interpretation of the Jules Verne classic and more a kid's adventure flick that bears scant regard for realism, historical fact or sense. It's not a very good children's film at that. It's a muddled story, trying too hard to mix in Oriental detail and tribal battles with the standard 'journey' template and any attempts at seriousness go out of the window in the first five minutes with the introduction of bizarre and fanciful machinery that looks like something out of a kid's fantasy novel. Special effects are generally poor and many of the supporting cast members give outlandish, over the top performances that I personally found repulsive. Jim Broadbent is a particular offender in this respect, but Ewen Bremner doesn't come off very well either. The script is below par too.Steve Coogan isn't too bad as the foppish Fogg. He fails to make his character remotely likable, but I did find him believable in the part. Jackie Chan is the same lovable buffoon that we've seen in every Hollywood film in the past decade. Of course, he's the best thing in the film, garnering the few laughs on offer, but I did find the lack of action to be a bit insulting. There are only a couple of the sprawling, choreographed battles we've come to know and expect and the focus is elsewhere, on the nonsensical plot and the need to cram in as many different places as possible.That leaves the cameos. There are many of them, taking place throughout the film at regular intervals, and they do give the movie a certain novelty value that works, for the first viewing at least. It's quite amazing how many different stars were lined up to appear. The best, of course, is Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his last screen appearance before he became a politician; he's genuinely funny, as usual, and they make great use of his larger-than-life persona. Other fun moments include an appearance from Richard Branson as a balloonist; Rob Schneider playing a befuddled tramp; Maggie Q in a one-scene fight; Sammo Hung, playing Wong Fei-Hung; Daniel Wu as a villain and Ken Lo as a henchman; John Cleese in a bit part as a policeman; the Wilson brothers, Luke and Owen, as the Wright brothers (an inspired bit of casting, that); Mark Addy, pretty poor as a steamer captain; finally, Kathy Bates, pretty convincing as Queen Victoria. Take away the cameos and Jackie and you have a bottom of the barrel production in every respect.

OllieSuave-007 Based on Jules Verne adventure novel, adventurer Passepartout (Jackie Chan) teams up with time-traveling inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) and French artist Monique La Roche (Cécile De France) on a journey around the world in 80 days to win a wager with a London Clumb members.During the trio's journey, there is an endless supply of wacky adventures, good guy vs. bad guy action, cheesy romance and dialog, historical fun and breathtaking sceneries of the many countries featured, including England, France, Turkey, India China and the USA. Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan make a great heroic and comedic team in their win-seeking bet and I've also enjoyed seeing the many cameos in the movie like Luke and Owen Wilson in the USA and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Prince Papi in Turkey. He was extremely hilarious in his attempts to woo Monique and to protect his humongous statue of himself from being crushed to pieces by Passepoartout and Fogg.The martial arts seen were a treat and exciting to watch and it was an added bonus to see actor Sammo Hung as martial artist legend Wong Fei Hung and he leads the "Five Tigers" in attempts to defeat the "Black Scorpians" to save the trio. It was also enjoyable to watch each of the trio's different adventures in each of the different countries, giving us a taste of the different cultures, historical settings and people.It's a wild and crazy adventure from start to finish, which I thought gave the plot momentum. The movie's not Oscar material, but it's pure entertainment! Grade B