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Around The World In 80 Days Movie Rating:  Unfunny
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| Wrongly marketed as a Jackie Chan star vehicle, this exceptionally messy and racially offensive ensemble picture - made all the more puzzling by the Hong Kong star's producer status - is that most frightening of horror films: the unfunny comedy in spite of the starring presence of Steve Coogan. Based loosely on the Jules Verne novel, the plot involves a Victorian-era race around the world led by Phileas Fogg (Coogan), accompanied by his faithful valet, Passepartout (Chan). Their pointless adventures bring them into contact with lots of non-white people from other lands, who are seemingly happy to be subjugated by England. | |
| Chan shows off some remedial martial-arts moves in between all sorts of gratuitous slapstick violence that plays more as sadistic than as silly. In the end, only young children will find it amusing, while the adults who accompany them may feel as if they've sat in the cinema for 80 days. |
Steve Coogan. ©2004 All Rights Reserved.
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