Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

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CinemaSource

Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Rating: PG

Release Date: Jun 16, 2004

Running Time: 119 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Cecile De France, Ewen Bremner, Ian McNeice, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Mark Addy, Karen Joy Morris

director: Frank Coraci

Around the World in 80 Days

An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg, has come up with the secrets to flight, electricity, and even in-line skates, but the establishment has dismissed him as a crackpot. Desperate to be taken seriously, Fogg makes an outlandish bet with Lord Kelvin, the head of the Royal Academy of Science: to circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days! With his two sidekicks--Passepartout and femme fatale Monique--Fogg is headed on a frantic, heart-pounding round-the-world race that takes our heroes to the world's most exotic places by land, sea, and air.

In the tradition of those silly, madcap films of old, including its 1956 predecessor, Around the World in 80 Days is like eating a candy bar--loaded with empty calories but also light and fluffy with a sweet Jackie Chan in the center.

Story

Based loosely on the 19th century Jules Verne novel, 80 Days revolves around two unlikely heroes--the eccentric and reclusive inventor, Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) and his (French?) valet Passepartout (Jackie Chan). While Fogg's ''wacky'' inventions actually…