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Around the World in 80 Days
Disney · 2004 · United States - Frank Coraci
A Chinese man robs the Bank of England. To evade the police, he becomes the valet for Phileas Fogg, an inventor. Phileas is trying to break the 50-mph speed barrier, and after succeeding with the help of Passepartout, they head to the Royal Academy of Science. There, Fogg is insulted by the other "brilliant minds", in particular William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who believes that everything worth discovering has already been discovered. Phileas is pressured into a bet to see whether he can travel around the world in 80 days. If he wins he will become Minister of Science in Lord Kelvin's place, if not he will destroy his lab and never invent anything again. Phileas and Passpartout start their journey around the world, taking a carriage and leaving London after a confrontation with Inspector Fix, a corrupt officer hired by the Royal Academy of Science to stop them.
Genres:
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction, History, Action, Sport, Drama
Release date:
2004-06-16
External links:
Around the World in 80 Days at IMDB Around the World in 80 Days at Wikipedia
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Rotten Tomatoes
20 Critic reviews
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Houston Chronicle
July 21, 2005 read full article
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
Amiably dorky redo.
June 30, 2004 read full article
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Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
It was exactly what I expected and that's something I didn't really want to see.
June 21, 2004 read full article
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Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
Around the World in 80 Days is never as delightful and silly as it needs to be.
June 19, 2004 read full article
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Desson Thomson
Washington Post
The gags are physical but rarely funny.
June 18, 2004 read full article
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
June 18, 2004 read full article
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Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
Has that cheesy, chintzy mid-Florida feel that we all know and love, despite its $110 million budget.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Todd McCarthy
Variety
This second bigscreen version of Jules Verne's 1873 novel takes plenty of liberties with the material and never generates much genuine excitement, but provides an agreeable ride without overloading it with contemporary filmmaking mannerisms.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Mike Clark
USA Today
Plays like a listless '60s overseas co-production.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Malene Arpe
Toronto Star
Jules Verne is rotating in his grave worrying about his other works ripe for plucking from the public domain.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
An energetic and enormously good-natured family movie.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
Wonderful family escapist entertainment.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
Offers only snooze-worthy action scenes.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
Feel[s] like a future ride at the Magic Kingdom.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
A journey worth taking.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Lou Lumenick
New York Post
This $110-million fiasco is the sort of movie that gives family entertainment a bad name.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
One of the lamest remakes of a classic film I've ever seen.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
The major problem with Around the World is that there's just not quite enough Chan, or at least the Chan we want to see, which is the acrobatic clown.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
Despite all the audience-pleasing laughs and derring-do, it fails to take us anywhere we haven't been before.
June 16, 2004 read full article
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Mark Wolf
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Around the World in 80 Days is modestly diverting summer fare, but at about the halfway mark you're going to start wondering, 'Are we there yet?'
June 16, 2004 read full article
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