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	Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 film based on Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
		Around the World in 80 Days is one of the biggest box office bombs in film history.
		(Redirected from Around the World in 80 Days (2004 movie))
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Around_the_World_in_80_Days_(2004_movie) (334 words)

	Around the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later that day in the Reform Club, he gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days.
		The first season is "Around the World in 80 Days", and the second season is "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"; all three books are by Jules Verne.
		Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1872.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days (2292 words)

	The Film Tribune - Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
		The Film Tribune - Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
		"Around the World in Eighty Days" is, most of all, a prime example of an all-show, no substance film with a completely inappropriate pace, and would have worked better had the film emphasized Fogg's necessity to meet the deadline rather than provided the audience with a travelogue.
		Surprisingly enough, the film may never have seen the light of day due to constant funding problems, but became one of the biggest money-makers of its year, and also the crowning achievement of independent producer Michael Todd (better-known for his Todd-AO widescreen process, which was used for the film).
	www.filmtribune.com /aroundtheworld.html (1557 words)

	DVD Times - Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		DVD Times - Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		Around the World in 80 Days is a curious beast, mixing genres as it plods along throughout its near two-hour and often torturous running time.
		A wasted opportunity Around the World in 80 Days fails to impress on basic action adventure terms, but also furthers concerns amongst fans that Jackie’s days at the top of his game are numbered be they down to physical restrictions on his part or studio restrictions on his methods.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=13313 (2274 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		Around the World in 80 Days is in the latter category, in part because of the way it reduces its actors to playing at the emotional and intellectual level of, say, a typical Adam Sandler character.
		In the original story (spoiler alert), Fogg succeeds in going around the world but initially believes he’s missed the deadline — until he realizes that in his eastward travel across twenty-four time zones and the international date line he has "gained" a day, and that the actual elapsed time is only 79 days.
		Still, it’s saying something that Around the World is lamer as a movie than any of Jackie’s previous U.S. films, even The Tuxedo.
	decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1931 (907 words)

	IGN: Around The World In 80 Days (2004) Review
		DVD Details for Around The World In 80 Days (2004)
		If you're not familiar with the book or the classic film, then you've still got the title to sum up the story completely: a man is challenged to traverse the globe in 80 days, and he accepts, although not without stopping for some adventures along the way.
		The three of them make up the trio of globetrotters that are determined to go around the world, each for their own separate, personal reasons.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/565/565965p1.html (1273 words)

	Filmtracks: Around the World in 80 Days (Trevor Jones)
		Had this version of Around the World in 80 Days been as intelligent and as long as the original 1956 film (3 hours), then Jones could have been presented with the most diverse and interesting scoring assignment of his career.
		By mutating Verne's story into a kung-fu style slapstick comedy, Disney has completely altered the focus of the film, thus changing the approach that composer Trevor Jones would have to take with the score for the new Around the World in 80 Days.
		All artwork and sound clips from Around the World in 80 Days are Copyright © 2004, Walt Disney Records.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/around_world.html (1187 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004): Music composed by Trevor Jones: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews November 2004
		Around the World in 80 Days (2004): Music composed by Trevor Jones: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews November 2004
		Trevor Jones' score for Around the World in 80 Days is definitely enough.
		Among those consequently overlooked is Trevor Jones, who deserves better artistic recognition in general and, specifically, gives this version of Around the World in 80 Days a collection of eclectic, effervescent symphonic moods.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2004/Nov04/around_the_world.html (262 words)

	Amazon.ca: Around the World in 80 Days (2004) (Widescreen): DVD
		Around the World in 80 Days (2004) (Widescreen)
		Around the World in 80 Days is the latest to come down the chute, and it's been redesigned as a Jackie Chan film.
		"Discovering Around the World in 80 Days" behind-the-scenes featurette
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002S64TQ (554 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004): Reviews
		"Around the World in 80 Days" is a Jackie Chan film; an inordinate amount of time is spent in China, when the key to this film's success would've been a breezy excursion around the world, not around Jackie's.
		Since "Around the World in 80 Days" is so slack in the period detail department, why not just give the film a contemporary setting.
		This film was obviously made for the young and sexy demographic, but the problem is, they'd rather see "Around the Galaxy in 80 Days".
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/aroundtheworldin80days (1449 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		Around the World in 80 Days plays like a suicide note, full of references to past glories (Hung appears as Wong Fei Hung, the folk hero Chan played in Drunken Master II), past fight scenes played at half-speed, and an implacable patina of an obliterating self-pity.
		Just the disturbing violence of the piece, something forgiven by most as "cartoonish" or, even stranger, "just for children," should give pause, especially considering that an entire set-piece is centered around an old woman believing herself to have been robbed before falling, heavily, off a wall and onto her face.
		Chan's hopeful "I can also sing" is a variety of servile that should set teeth on edge, while a whole sequence set in India in which colonialist Britons "hut hut" around while a train-car of Indian waifs offer Hindu homilies about the nature of legend and the preciousness of malapropisms is genuinely disturbing.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/aroundtheworldin80days2004.htm (865 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days : Joel Wicklund : Film - Centerstage Chicago
		Around the World in 80 Days : Joel Wicklund : Film - Centerstage Chicago
		Around the World in 80 Days certainly isn’t it.
		Around the World in 80 Days Starring Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, and Cecile De France.
	centerstage.net /film/articles/aroundtheworld.html (612 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days
		Around the World in 80 Days is a wireless game—built for your cell phone—based on the film starring Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, and Cecile De France.
		As Passepartout (Chan), you must help Phileas (Coogan) and Monique (De France) circumnavigate the globe in 80 days.
		En route you must use clever strategy and martial arts to overcome obstacles and fight off numerous enemies who are determined keep you from succeeding.
	www.thumbworks.com /apps/atw/na/index.shtml (79 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		Around the World in 80 Days is worth seeing at the theatre, if for nothing else but those eye-popping visuals.
		Although the film bears little resemblance to Jules Verne's 1872 classic (aside from having a Phileas Fogg and servant Passepartout travel around the world), it is the kind of high-stakes premise that generates real dramatic tension, provided it's carried by sufficiently sympathetic characters for the audience to get behind.
		He is remarkably expressive, successfully portraying both the strong face Phileas puts on for the public and the hint of the insecure human being underneath.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jun04/80days.htm (722 words)

	FilmJerk.com - Film Review: "Around the World in 80 Days"
		Jules Verne’s adventure, “Around the World in 80 Days,” has been adapted in practically every decade since the film industry was formed, most famously in a 1956 epic comedy, starring David Niven and Cantinflas.
		Ripping apart the Jules Verne classic, the new "Around the World in 80 Days" replaces adventure, fascination, and fun with Jackie Chan and his never ending stunts.
		Chan is unquestionably a spirited performer, and the film’s twist in focus, making Passepartout the lead character of the tale, clearly states from the opener that this isn’t your father’s “80 Days.” This one is strictly for the kids who love their Chan.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/article939.html (822 words)

	DVD review of Around The World In 80 Days (2004) - DVD Town
		The 2004 version of "Around the World in 80 Days" is not a bad film as such; it's just an ordinary one and a fairly typical vehicle for its star, Jackie Chan.
		Put it this way: Disney spent over $200,000,000 in 2004 remaking "The Alamo" and "Around the World in 80 Days." The two films together took in a total of less than $50,000,000 at the box office.
		The fact is, the filmmakers appear to have tailored the whole film around Chan, for better or for worse, and employed Frank Coraci to direct, a filmmaker whose previous efforts were "The Wedding Singer" and "The Water Boy." I think you get the idea.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/aroundtheworldin80days2004/13559/2434 (1981 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004) Cast
		Around the World in 80 Days (2004) Cast
	www.cinema.com /film/8259/around-the-world-in-80-days/cast.phtml (18 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Around the World in 80 Days
		DVD Review: Around the World in 80 Days
		In the film's funniest scene, Chan's character subverts a game of telephone to his advantage, but considering the smile on his face and cloying twinkle in his eye, you'd think he did it for a Scooby snack and not the dignity of his people.
		Unlike Anderson's film, this claptrap's cameo appearances are by and large embarrassing and exist only to trigger people's memories ("Look, Ma, it's the lady from Misery!"), but to the filmmaker's credit, they do have a darling time evoking how inventions like the Salisbury steak got their names.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1062 (387 words)

	IGN: Around the World in 80 Days (1956) Preview
		February 24, 2004 - Warner Home Video has announced three titles in a series of two-disc special edition DVDs for release this spring, one of them being Around the World in 80 Days, the 1956 Academy Award winner for Best Picture starring David Niven and Shirley MacLaine.
		Playhouse 90: Around the World in 90 Minutes (excerpts): Elizabeth Taylor hosts this live October 17, 1957 telecast of the a star-studded gala from Madison Square Garden celebrating the one-year anniversary of Around the World in 80 Days' world premiere.
		DVD Details for Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
	dvd.ign.com /articles/494/494441p1.html (340 words)

	DVD Authority DVD Review of Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		The truly disappointing aspect to all this is that just a slight nudge one way or the other would have cemented “Around The World In 80 Days” as a straightforward family film or, preferably, a film adults would love as much as their children.
		All the elements are here for a terrific family film, complete with an even mix of satirical in-jokes that the adults will stick around for and the obligatory slapstick banter that will have the kids rolling in the aisles.
		True, the film does have a lot of ground to cover, but this is, at its core, a children’s movie, and as such it should have been trimmed a bit more so as to better hold it’s audience’s attention.
	www.dvdauthority.com /reviews.asp?reviewID=4126 (1220 words)

	FILM REVIEW: Around The World In 80 Days
		The aforementioned milieu is the weirdest part of a very weird movie, the new Frank Coraci-directed remake of Around The World In 80 Days.
		Around the World is destined to fail; its target audience won’t know what to make of it and may object to some of the more painful-looking slapstick and bizarre jokes.
		The film takes awhile to shake off its Disney leanings; Coogan looks uncomfortable at the beginning and there are a few terrible edits that leave gaping holes in the narrative.
	www.chartattack.com /DAMN/2004/06/1626.cfm (709 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		There is no fair comparison between this Around the World in 80 Days and the classic 1956 version.
		To be absolutely clear, Walk Disney and Jackie Chan's Around the World in 80 Days is not an adaptation of the Jules Verne classic.
		It is a remake of the famous 1956 film that is an adaptation of the Jules Verne classic; you know, the one produced by Michael Todd, starring David Niven and Cantinflas, with music written by Victor Young, and the Academy Award Best Picture of the Year.
	www.movie-vault.com /reviews/oaxtlvjpqGBDJenm (1095 words)

	Critic Doctor (Herb Kane) - Review by Peter Sobsczynski: Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		Like the 1956 version, "Around the World in 80 Days" is chock-full of cameo appearances-generally a sign that the filmmakers are so unsure of the material that they figure that they can momentarily distract viewers by sticking in some famous faces.
		Tragically, that seems to have been the sole effort made by the creators of "Around the World in 80 Days", the latest retelling of the Jules Verne classic.
		This is a real disaster-a sprawling budget (upwards of $100 million), a star-studded (well, star-sprinkled) cast and an enormous amount of energy clearly went into its production but the end result is about as thrilling as spending those 80 days stuck in Cary, Illinois with a broken axle.
	www.criticdoctor.com /petersobczynski/aroundtheworld.html (590 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
		This remake of the award winning 1956 classic Around the World in 80 Days is clearly just a vehicle to further his career; unfortunately it mainly showcases his age.
		The story, based on the novel by Jules Verne, is about a late 19th century inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) and his valet Passepartout (Chan) who seek to circumnavigate the world in 80 days to collect on a bet with the head of the Royal Academy (Jim Broadbent).
		I guess we should consider ourselves lucky his film doesn't run the three hours that its predecessor did, or we’d all have enough time to make it around the world and back.
	filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/130c9652863b827088256eb10016289a?OpenDocument (750 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Around the World in 80 Days -- Frank Coraci - DVD - Wide Screen / Subtitled / Dubbed
		Like the blockbuster 1956 adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, this film features a number of major stars in cameo appearances and supporting roles as Fogg makes his way around the globe, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Cleese, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Sammo Hung, Rob Schneider, Richard Branson, Mark Addy, and more.
		In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), the head of the Royal Academy of Science, Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days.
		However, Fogg and his companions are dogged along the way by the false accusation that the inventor took part in a bank robbery, forcing him to not only complete the journey but clear his name as well.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=786936252477&userid=3c0eonmAoH&frm=0&itm=4 (361 words)

	BBC - Films - Film 2004 - Around The World In 80 Days - interviews
		Film 2004 visited the set of action comedy Around The World In 80 Days to meet stars Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan.
		BBC - Films - Film 2004 - Around The World In 80 Days - interviews
		Coogan is eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg, (played by David Niven in the 1956 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel), who makes a bet that he can circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days.
	bbc.co.uk /films/film_2004/around_the_world_in_80_days_interviews.shtml (270 words)

	"Around the World in 80 Days" (1989/I) (mini)
		"Around the World in 80 Days" (1989/I) (mini)
		Trivia: John Mills and Robert Morley were the only actors who appeared in both the 1956 version of Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and this 1989 re-adaptation.
		It's entirely possible that the novel simply can't be filmed.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0096535 (463 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days
		In this raucous Disney adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, Steve Coogan plays Phileas Fogg, a quirky inventor at the turn of the 20th century.
		"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?'"
		"Around the World in 80 Days is never as delightful and silly as it needs to be."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/around_the_world_in_80_days (1008 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Around the World in 80 Days (2004) DVD Review
		"Discovering 'Around the World in 80 Days'" is a nice little making-of piece.
		There are two versions of the film contained on the disc; the theatrical cut and a version with an alternate opening.
		Barring little resemblance to the Jules Verne novel (or the 1956 film version), the film is a costly mess that does pick up a little bit in the second hour, but it ends up seeming more intent to show off cameos than provide anything entertaining.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/04/06/185636.php (1635 words)

	Around the World in 80 Days (2004) - MovieWeb
		Around the World in 80 Days (2004) - MovieWeb
		He seeks refuge with an eccentric London inventor, Phineas Fogg (Coogan), who puts his reputation, fortune, and career on the line in a daring bet to make it around the world in eighty days.
		Joining them is Monique (De France), a young French artist who decides that a trip around the world would provide new inspiration.
	movieweb.com /movies/film.php?775 (367 words)

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