I wanted to watch this movie because the brief description interested me. I always enjoyed films and games set in this era (like The Order: 1886) and books by Jules Verne, even though I didn't know this was one of his works before. But I didn't like this film.I can't decide who they were trying to appeal to; there were childish parts and quite adult parts. There were childish "hilarious hi-jinks!" as in Home Alone 3 like Jackie Chan losing his pants, getting stabbed in the backside, gross-out humor, and an over-the-top main villain who sometimes acted like Jim Carrey's Grinch (see the final scene for an example). And there were also more adult parts like Fogg eyeing Monique's legs and up her skirt, making out with her, and lots of martial-arts violence.Some parts were very annoying or predictable. Jackie Chan's character lies to Fogg in the beginning, and of course he gets found out later and of course Fogg gets all mad at him and after what seems like forever, forgives him again later in the movie. As another tired plot device, Fogg cuts it really close to not making it back in 80 days despite seemingly having plenty of time to do so, then gets told he lost and everything stops for an agonizing minute and then he suddenly finds he won after all. Cliché Disney film. I watched it mostly to the end (fast forwarding through some parts) because I wanted to see him successfully circumnavigate the globe, but his success felt empty because we had just been told that he lost beforehand. That's bad writing.There were some charming parts to the movie, Jackie Chan's action scenes were good, but everything else was bad. I wouldn't recommend it to the children I know or anyone else.

Continuing my plan to watch every Arnie movie in order, I come to his cameo in Around The World In 80 Days.Plot In A Paragraph: A bet pits a British inventor (Steve Coogan) a Chinese thief (Jackie Chan), and a French artist (Cecile De France) on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.A lot of your enjoyment of this movie will depend on how funny you find Jackie Chan's slapstick routine and Steve Coogan. I love Coogan as Alan Partridge, but most of his other stuff is hit and miss at best. As for Chan, I have not enjoyed anything he has done in a long time.Arnie turns up about 40 mins in, as Prince Hapi, the man with 6 wives and whose favourite thing in the world, is a giant statue of himself. Hamming it up more than he ever has, Arnold is clearly enjoying himself and is a lot of fun. He is the only bright spot in an otherwise dull affair.Around The World In 80 Days is strictly for people who don't go to the cinema, and stay at home watching movies on DVD and TV. Around The World In 80 Days grossed $24 million at the domestic Box Office and ended the year the 97th highest gross in movie of the year.

The adverts for this one state that this movie is "A Fantastic Adventure for The Entire Family!" Well, if your family enjoys flatulent jokes, urination jokes, bodies being slammed against walls, people screaming when tossed out of windows, CGI effects instead of actual location shots, a totally charmless lead (Steve Coogan), Jackie Chan stunts written into Jules Verne so Jackie Chan would possibly sell the movie, and infantile joke after infantile joke, yeah, your family might love it.Instead, the family--and adults--can enjoy a made-for-TV version with Pierce Brosnon, who plays the traveler Fogg with great intrepidity, and the long, lavish production takes great pains to be true to the spirit of Jules Verne: it's a fascinating story told with verve and some real thrills.And then there's the original Oscar-winning Best Film of 1956 version which played using the giant screen process Todd-A-O and filled theatres for years. And today, unless you watch the original 1956 in Letterbox on a large screen, it can look merely like a glorified travelogue--but when it opens up on a large home screen in stereo sound, David Niven and Cantiflas still charm, the scenery (and balloon ride) are breathtaking, and the cameos a delight--think Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Buster Keaton, Noel Coward, George Raft, Red Skeleton and dozens more.Who pops up in the new Coogan/Chan version? Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rob Schneider. Now you know. It's fairly low-grade fuel.

i am a huge jackie chan fan have seen all of his movies, have loved most of them, and as everybody already knows his American movies arnt a patch on his hong kong classics, never the less some of them are enjoyable, this is one of those ones. while it hasent got as many fight scenes you would expect from a jackie chan movie, they are good and very well choreographed, plus there is a great cameo appearance by sammo hung. there are a couple of good stunts, even though you can tell there is a lot of effects work. its a very colourful movie, and kids are going to enjoy it a lot more than adults, but never the less anybody who enjoys chan's work, should enjoy watching this with there little ones. its not as good as shanghai noon, but its better than shanghai knights, i recommend this to watch with the little ones.