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An adventurer, Passepartout, ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, on a daring mission to journey effectually the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the earth in lxxx days. Along the style, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage effectually the globe. —kakubisc@imdb.com

Good Jackie Chan pic, poor Jules Verne movie

Motion-picture show goers planning to see a faithful and traditional screen accommodation of the Jules Verne novel Effectually the World in Eighty Days will be disappointed in the new version released past Disney, and produced and starring Jackie Chan. Those looking for a moderately agreeable and quite diverting Hong Kong activeness-comedy will be positively delighted.

Disney has obviously pitched this latest screen version of the well loved take chances tale to a young audition, and the marketing strategy is ideal. American kids, forced to take standardized tests just not required to do real learning in school will be totally ignorant of the wholesale changes the ham handed screen writers have made to the literary source material and will have no clue what so ever that the 'celebrated' references and interpolated real characters and situations are vastly inaccurate. They will recognize mentions of Thomas Edison or the Wright Brothers with out ever knowing why they don't fit in. At the top of the film, an on-screen title identifies the time as before the plow of the century, and that inexact reference provides most of the historical bloopers through out, equally it seems no one involved in the film knew what could be forgiven in the name of entertaining fiction and what strains credibility.

The bare bones of the plot that Verne set down in 1872 are still here, simply what director Frank Coraci and a trio of screen writers have done is follow the Verne book so loosely that y'all can hear those bare bones rattle every bit this action film careens from ane corner of the world to the other.: A proper British gentleman, orderly and efficient, accepts a wager that he can circle the globe in the span of but more than that two months, or lxxx days. He is assisted by his resourceful valet, who is non British and forth the way wins the middle of a fair maiden and finds true love every bit well as the successful completion of his wager.

Knowing that Mr. Coraci is the pic maker who gave united states The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy will give some idea of the level of humour involved in most scenes. Further confidence will not be gained from the writing trio's pat efforts, every bit ane is making his feature film debut and another wrote for the sitcom Who's the Boss. The near obvious postage stamp on this production is fabricated by star Jackie Chan, who is also and executive producer and stunt arranger on this film.

My young son has adult a taste for martial arts film after seeing a Bruce Lee pic on cable, and so I have taken in a few of Mr. Chan'due south more recent efforts on DVD. Chan'due south American films are less serious than his Chinese language pictures, playing on Chan's ability to perform the most amazing physical feats along with his charming method of non interim. The action sequences are e'er astonishing, and Around the Globe serves up a superb sampling of what he can do, and practice very well. The grapheme Chan plays was a Frenchman in Verne'southward rendering, but the pic changes things in an almost plausible mode to account for the obvious fact that Chan is not of that groundwork.

Changes are made in the main grapheme besides. Steve Coogan plays Philieas Fogg, the Englishman who makes the wager and travels the globe to win information technology, and Coogan should learn from Chan's example the wisdom of being not only actor but producer. Though he plays what is arguably the main character in the story, Coogan is billed second, behind Chan in the movie'south credits. Coogan delivers a character that is far more 'manifestly' eccentric that Verne may have imagined, and the script plays up some of this in making Fogg and mad inventor type who concocts outlandish-and alee of their time-inventions that the scientific institution will not embrace. I am ready to bet good money that the director or one of the screen writers was making a sort of homage to Chitty Chitty Blindside Bang with this characterization of Fogg, since he comes across much like the genial mad scientist that Dick Van Dyke played in that flick.

Seeing this film reminded me of the affection that I have for a previous screen version, the 1 that starred David Niven as Fogg, in a masterful performance that seems to sum upward the effete bravado that is a stereotypical British Admirer. At ane betoken of the circumnavigation while in India, Niven as Fogg is given what every Britisher needs in a warm clime, a pith helmet, but his has a sort of veil or ribbon that hangs down the back. It is an usual sartorial flourish that not every actor could carry off, because wearing a hat with a veil just looks girly on most guys, but Niven non only makes it piece of work but makes information technology work for him.

Whatsoever practiced run a risk story, and this is 1, needs a villain to hiss at, and Jim Broadbent has obvious fun as the blustering Lord Kelvin that he threatens to steal the testify from some of the less raucous performers. Kathy Bates has a forcefully memorable cameo as Queen Victoria, and looks like the best screen Victoria in some time. Arnold Schwarzenegger shows upward as Turkish prince and displays the acting prowess that point his continued occupancy of the Governor'southward office is a proficient thing for the fine art of cinema.

Although the costumes don't give a clear definition of time period, they are handsome to wait at, and at that place is a lot of good blueprint work that has gone into this film. Each culture and geographic region is ready off in contrast to the others we encounter, and the blithe transitions betwixt live action scenes are an effective and charming way to move along in style.

My lesser line: 2.v out of five stars. Worth a matinee.

My son's bottom line 'I liked the fights' He didn't fall asleep or ask to leave.

SHO2n
Jun 24, 2004

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