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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13
Negative:
10
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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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