Around the World in 80 Days

Jackie Chan

I don't know to what extent this movie took liberties with the Jules Verne novel, because I haven't read it since I was prepubescent, but I would hazard a guess to say that the only similarity it the title and the name of Phineas Fogg.

Regardless, it's a fun-filled flick, with the wonderful Jackie Chan choreography that we've come to love and expect. Yes, if you like these flicks, you'll like this. I do. And I did.

It's not as humourous as the Shanghai Noon/Knights flicks, but then part of that humour I believe comes from Owen Wilson. This one is more straight Chan, i.e. on the run from assassins and kicking butt with whatever is available: stools, wooden benches, tie-ropes, umbrellas, the head of the Statue of Liberty . . .

Also, many good cameos - my favourite being the Schwarzenegger part in which he plays a narcissistic Kaliph.

All in all - a nice movie with which to pass a lazy afternoon.


VG