Around the World in 80 Days
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: June 16, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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10
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Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Coraci has given us a film that is not only amusing, but well-acted, and not only well-acted, but gorgeous. Micha Klein's animated transitions alone, which are used to signal each change in location, are wondrous and lovely to behold. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
None of this amounts to anything more than goofy fun, but that's what the ads promise, and the movie delivers. Read full review
75
PremierePeter Debruge
Kids deserve an adventure movie like this, one that might inspire them to become junior inventors and ignite their interest in the world's many wonders. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Dumb, enjoyable kids fare; Jackie Chan's fanny-kicking world tour is a textbook example of how a movie can be "fun" without, strictly speaking, being "good." Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Despite its contemporary touches Around the World in 80 Days is a satisfying slice of old-fashioned storybook entertainment. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Finds a winning formula: Chan provides the action, various exotic lands serve up props begging to be employed in Chan-style combat, Coogan brings the dry wit, a minor constellation of surprise guest stars provides razzle-dazzle, and a steady stream of mild chuckles helps the whole fandango fly by painlessly. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
Sails along on a slipstream of pleasant scenery, amusing incident and the boundless charms of its appealing leading men, Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan: It's an unexpectedly buoyant spectacular. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Despite the rush to get everyone from place to place, director Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy) luxuriates in colorful visual detail and gives the locals their due. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Only a devotee of the original film or a hardcore sourpuss could find serious fault with this world romp. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
What's new and nutty, though, is the physical comedy of Jackie Chan as Fogg's manservant. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJessica Winter
As the tourist on a time budget, the usually brilliant Coogan merely mugs and flails (we can only imagine what Johnny Depp would have done with Fogg), while he and able straight man Chan enjoy scant opportunity to develop any comic rapport. Read full review
60
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Takes plenty of liberties with the material and never generates much genuine excitement, but provides an agreeable ride without overloading it with contemporary filmmaking mannerisms. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A tatty but good-natured time-passer.
50
USA TodayMike Clark
Just going through the motions here (and mild ones at that), both Chan and the movie should have stayed at home. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Although each episode might be marginally entertaining in its own right, the overall effect is that the movie isn't funny enough, exciting enough, or dramatic enough to warrant two hours of an audience member's time. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
The major problem with Around the World is that there's just not quite enough Chan, or at least the Chan we want to see, which is the acrobatic clown. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A leaden excuse for family entertainment, loosely inspired by Jules Verne's 1873 novel, coarsened almost beyond recognition and dominated by Jackie Chan's comic martial-arts schtick. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Not even Chan's imaginative fight choreography redeems this folly. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Brightly colored, spiffily designed and easy to sit through in a harmless Disney sort of way, but the comedy never accumulates any momentum. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Never as delightful and silly as it needs to be. The action is often manic, and there's a veneer of unapologetic corniness to it. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Coogan and Broadbent are agile and expressive, but too much time goes to Chan's silly stunts. A colorful disappointment. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Any resemblance between Jules Verne's marvelous science fiction novel or Mike Todd's enjoyable 1956 movie is pure happenstance. This is simply a Jackie Chan movie pitched to youngsters who enjoy slapstick fights and goofy caricatures. Read full review
40
EmpireCaroline Westbrook
It livens up a bit in the last reel when Fogg’s inventive brain pulls out all the stops to try to win the bet, but by that point you'll be too jaded to care. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
With the exception of one masterfully choreographed - and improbably bloodless - martial-arts gang fight, the new version of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is one of the lamest remakes of a classic film I've ever seen. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A peppy, fast-moving, wafer-thin amusement that's fine for kids if you don't mind a lot of Three Stooges-style martial arts. For grown-ups, it's the equivalent of a 59-cent tin globe. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Heaven knows what the suits at Disney were thinking, for what they ended up with was a bland Jackie Chan movie and a lifeless travelogue. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The movie falls from grace to clunkiness and continues its herky-jerky, way-unfunny trek around the amusement park. Who needs it? Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Among the several iterations of Jules Verne's novel about the inventor's adventures whilst traipsing through England, Asia and the Wild West, this new one is the least impressive and most depressive. Even the 1989 made-for-TV version starring Pierce Brosnan possessed more spark and steam than this lazy, lackluster take. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Jules Verne's novel has been flattened into a standardized Jackie Chan vehicle. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The gags are physical but rarely funny. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's been turned into a stupid kung fu movie. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Might as well be called "Around the World in 80 Yawns." Read full review
25
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Represents everything that over-budgeted Hollywood can possibly get wrong in a period piece: It feels both long and slow, it's unfocused and self-contradictory, its generic characters are played too broadly, it's anachronistic.. Read full review
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