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Jackie Chan | ... | ||
Steve Coogan | ... | ||
Cécile De France | ... | ||
Robert Fyfe | ... | ||
Jim Broadbent | ... | ||
Ian McNeice | ... | ||
David Ryall | ... | ||
Roger Hammond | ... | ||
Adam Godley | ... | ||
Howard Cooper | ... |
Academy Member #1
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Karen Mok | ... |
General Fang
(as Karen Joy Morris)
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Daniel Hinchcliffe | ... |
British Valet
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Wolfram Teufel | ... |
Belgian Dignitary
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Tom Strauss | ... |
Academy Member #2
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Kit West | ... |
Academy Member #3
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Set in 1872, the story focuses on Passepartout, a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg, who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemen's club that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains, balloons, elephants, etc. Along the way, Passepartout uses his amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many dangers they face.. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that's following them. Why? Just as Fogg and Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg suspected of using the "around the world" trip as an excuse to escape.. Their path from London and back includes stops in Paris, Turkey, India, China and USA... Written by austin4577@aol.com
Jackie Chans latest movie has just hit our DVD stores shelves (well in Australia at least) and I thought it was about time I submitted my review. The story is very loosely based on Jules Verne's novel of the same name, it involves an eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg trying to race around the world and end up back in England within 80 days while the evil Lord Kelvin tries to make sure he does not win and become the head of the royal academy of science. Before you watch this movie there are a few things you should know, its made by Disney, so its going to be a movie that is aimed at all ages and very family friendly and it also got a PG rating so its a relatively pleasant movie.
Having always been a Jackie Chan fan I may be a little bias but I found this movie great fun, much more than I was expecting. All the backdrops are gorgeous, and everything has a fun feel about it, this is the kind of movie that is just purely for entertainment, very light very easy but all together a fun ride that you should want to see again. A lot of cameo appearances are in this movie and ad a whole lot to the feel of the movie and all the main actors play their parts very well. The DVD extras are not much and what should have been a highlight, the deleted scenes where ruined by the director talking over then and making then a waste of time.
I can not mention this enough- this movie is very lite, do not see this expecting a life changing experience and just let yourself be taken on the ride.
This movie deserves 8.6 out of 10 Now that is cheap to hire do yourself a favor and take a look, you know you want to.