To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor embarks, with his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Cécile de France
- Monique La Roche
- (as Cécile De France)
Karen Mok
- General Fang
- (as Karen Joy Morris)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was Arnold Schwarzenegger's last movie before being elected Governor of California.
- GoofsOn the paddle-ship on the Atlantic, the paddles are turning and some of the sails are also unfurled. However, if the wind was having any effect it would have to be going faster than the ship. In that case the smoke from the smokestack should be blown forward, in the direction of travel. In fact it is shown going sideways or even backwards; this implies that the sails are actually causing a drag on the ship, slowing it down.
- Quotes
Monique La Roche: Where's your proof?
Lord Kelvin: This is the Royal Academy of Science! We don't have to prove anything!
- Alternate versionsSome commercial television prints cut out the Arnold Schwarzenegger cameo sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #31.2 (2004)
- SoundtracksIt's Slinky!
Written by Homer Fesperman and Charles Weasley
Featured review
cute movie that is better for those who haven't read the book
Very unfaithful adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, yet much more entertaining than the tedious and wildly overrated but relatively faithful David Niven version. The movie is breezy and enjoyable, with some fun fight scenes, although it is completely inconsequential.
I think it would help when watching this movie to have not read the book, because one cannot help but think that the extensive rewriting was not necessary. Passepartout's character could have been expanded for Jackie without so many other changes. Changing Phineas to a bumbling, goofy inventor was clearly done in an attempt to make the movie into another version of the buddy movie that has been Jackie's greatest friend in the U.S., but Coogan is unexceptional in the role and doesn't have a lot of chemistry with Jackie, so they really should have just done the character as written, which could have made for a much smarter movie.
In spite of plot holes and some silliness though, I enjoyed this, at least in that, watch-a-movie-on-TV-on-a-Saturday-morning way.
I think it would help when watching this movie to have not read the book, because one cannot help but think that the extensive rewriting was not necessary. Passepartout's character could have been expanded for Jackie without so many other changes. Changing Phineas to a bumbling, goofy inventor was clearly done in an attempt to make the movie into another version of the buddy movie that has been Jackie's greatest friend in the U.S., but Coogan is unexceptional in the role and doesn't have a lot of chemistry with Jackie, so they really should have just done the character as written, which could have made for a much smarter movie.
In spite of plot holes and some silliness though, I enjoyed this, at least in that, watch-a-movie-on-TV-on-a-Saturday-morning way.
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- cherold
- May 29, 2005
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- Also known as
- Around the World in Eighty Days
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- Budget
- $110,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,008,137
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,576,132
- Jun 20, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $72,660,444
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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