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#Around the world in 80 days 2004 film movie

Strangely, Phileas Fogg is the main comic relied character when it should’ve been Passeportout since in the book, he was the comic relief.While wacky and funny, the transitions are quite out of place in a film adaption of a book and would’ve fitted better for an animated film.

#Around the world in 80 days 2004 film movie

The movie somewhat feels like it’s ripping off Rat Race due to the movie’s tone and also the similarity of the humor.

Offensive stereotypes, like Passeportout’s grandmother that always keeps forcing Mr.

Unnecessary fighting scenes that look like they're from another film with Jackie Chan, despite the fact that it’s an adaptation of a Jules Verne book.

Not to mention, some of the characters are extremely miscast, with Arnold Schwarzenegger being the worst offender since he plays the Turkish prince.

Pretty bad acting, even for famous actors like Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan, as Chan always screams out loud at times while Cécile de France‘s character always has inconsistent acting.

The characters aren't represented well in the slightest.

Not satisfied with that, also racebends Aouda from an Indian woman into a French woman named Monique Laroche.

Not to mention, the questionable choice to racebend Passeportout from a European into an Asian in which the film even butchers Passeportout’s character by having him using that name as a fake name and that his real name is actually “Lau Xing”.

Even ignoring the fact that the film detracts from the source material, The story is poorly put together and barely makes any sense at all.Not to mention, the film also uses a lot of anachronistic humor.The humor is nothing more but poorly done slapstick that tries too hard to be like Mr.The idea of adding a lot of original content in the film is somewhat questionable as most book based films use elements from the book while using slight originality.Accompanied by his valet Passepartout (Jackie Chan) and aspiring impressionist Monique Laroche (Cécile de France), Fogg travels around the globe, getting into various adventures and situations along the way. Inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) is challenged to a bet made by Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent) in which he must travel the world in 80 days.