Nessieldwi
Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Brooklynn
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Prismark10
As a kid I really enjoyed Michael Anderson's Around the World in Eighty Days, it looked spectacular fun with a lot of stars popping in.Watching the film some years later, it really is an overlong mess and the silliness is hard to overlook.The film however does look gorgeous, it is beautifully photographed, filled with countless star cameos, many of them who are now forgotten. The film is helped by some wonderful location shooting, this is certainly not just the Universal back-lotDavid Niven is effortless as Phileas Fogg who has to circumnavigate the world in 80 days in order to win a wager. Cantinflas is just OK as his servant and comic relief, Passepartout who seems to constantly slow Fogg down with his overlong routines such as the bullfight in Spain that just goes on and on.
jacobjohntaylor1
6.8 really. People must just love boring movies. I do not like boring movie. This is slow and has an awful story line. It not a 6.8 that is just overrating it. This is very boring. I give it 4 out of 10. Because it so boring. Do not waste your money. And do not waste your time. You could your time doing better things then watching this boring movie. Life is to short for this boring movie. It so boring it is boring to watching. Do see this movie. It is not a good movie. Do not see it. You could see Godzilla. Or could see King Kong. Or you could see Gamera. You do not need to see this. You could see Star wars. There are a lot of great films out there. And this is not one of them. Do not see this movie.
adrianovasconcelos
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS will always be special to me because it was the only film that I watched alone with my beloved paternal grandfather, back in Lourenço Marques, Moçambique, in 1970. Of course, one can find flaws with the structure, Cantinflas' excessive flamboyance, and holes in the story's credibility, but that detracts from the immense pleasure, and ultimately the rather solid product that this film turns out to be, with wonderful comic touches and photography, and cameos by major stars of the day generously sprinkled all over the film. A 60th anniversary edition has come out in DVD and BlueRay with excellent extra material, including a voice over commentary that is a joy to listen to, offering detailed information about members of the cast, production difficulties, etc. David Niven's deadpan performance provides a clever counterweight to Cantinflas' overplayed antics. I have now watched this film at least 5 times, and all I can say is that I continue to enjoy it... very much!
writers_reign
Without checking I have no way of knowing if Mike Todd made his neg cost back let alone showed a profit on this but if hype can bring the punters in it's reasonable to assume he did go well into the black. The principal things it had going for it were the locations spanning several continents plus a cast that included what appeared to be everyone currently (1956) working, if only appearing in cameos. The two I could have cheerfully done without were Cantinflas and Shirley MacLaine but against that Noel Coward and Johnny Gielgud had a reasonable amount of screen time and Robert Newton had the lion's share of the support. It's basically a one-trick pony but probably worth one viewing.
