W 80 dni dookoła świata

Unpretentious fun with a great deal of exaggeration, and considering what a big flop it was overseas, I expected a worse result. The plot is fast-paced, the sets and costumes are fine, the inventions of the machines are imaginative, only the visual effects are blatantly CGI. Arnold's mini-role of a self-centered prince is certainly worth mentioning, it’s small in space but still distinctive. Even if he doesn't utter a word, seeing him with a long curly wig (which does NOT match his Teutonic expression at all) and elastic shorts is quite an experience, the other cameos are also a pleasure (except that John Cleese could have been there for more than three seconds). Fresh off an Oscar, Jim Broadbent visibly enjoyed his rewarding role as the treacherous Lord Kelvin, Jackie Chan still can't act, but his choreographed fight scenes are consistently flawless (would you believe you can paint a picture during a fight?...Jackie will show you). The problem, however, is that if you are a fan of Verne's novel, you'll probably be annoyed to say the least. It has only the basic skeleton in common with the source material, the story is mainly a series of disparate sketches and Passepartout's fight for his native village is somehow superfluous and has too much space at the expense of the basic storyline, which should be the struggle against time and adverse circumstances. Although Verne may be turning in his grave, it is, in sum, an entertaining romp that doesn't take itself seriously at all. It doesn't hurt to occasionally rinse your brain with something like this :) (31.10.2004)

The problem of this film does not lie in the fact that it contains a lot of invention and that it’s trying hard to be different from the original, which many people know by heart from their childhood. I personally thought that Steve Coogan portrayed Phileas Fogg as a half-wit and I couldn’t really get over that. Fogg has always been an intelligent gentleman and all of a sudden he’s this boob who has shit in his head rather than genius. Nevertheless, scenes involving Arnold Schwarzenegger are great and the series of scenes in China was pretty awesome too. Jackie Chan definitely put in quite a performance. Actually, the entire movie is quite nice, but doesn’t deserve more than the decent three stars. (14.02.2017)

The 80-day trip around the world is a wonderful start, promising truly dazzling epic action, diluted with intelligent conversational humor (which really doesn't wear stars and stripes on its shorts), but ultimately unnecessarily slipping into shallowness and it breaks what adorns it in the beginning – integrity and style. I'm sorry, but it's Jackie Chan's fault, who, though he plays his part decently, brings something foreign and incompatible to the picturesque world of inventor Phileas Fogg. He smuggled the weird style of Asian action film into the world of dry English humor, and Frank Coraci couldn't combine them into a coherent whole. An English gentleman and a levitating Asian don’t work together. Therefore, all the potential gradually disappears, and at the end there remains only a fairly satisfying feeling of a craftsmanship of a decently executed action comedy, which needed much more than satisfying craft to achieve true brilliance. It needed a really great storyteller to handle the story. Coraci remains halfway there. It needed a great screenwriter to avoid schoolboy lapses and disproportions in the construction of the plot. Unfortunately, it's stuck halfway there, too. No, it's not a flop. It's a fun and enjoyable movie. Halfway to a really great movie. And that's what I'm most sorry about. At least I like Steve Coogan's excellent bore in the title role of Mr. Fogg. (27.01.2005)

I can get over this degradation of my favorite book; apart from the title and a couple of names, nothing remains of the novel or the journey, but if I ignore that, then this is... In fact it’s quite a pleasant and relaxing movie to watch. Nothing more, nothing less. The opening fifteen minutes needlessly damages the movie; after than it is a good joy ride that thankfully doesn’t pretend to be anything more. Apart from a couple of embarrassing escapades reminiscent of The Pink Panther, it contains some really good scenes, nicely choreographed fight scenes (considering this is an adventure movie) and a couple of really great lines (We’ll burn birds!). A crying shame that there wasn’t a clash of titans Arnold vs. Chan in the pool scene. OST score: 4/5 (13.05.2022)

Very sympathetic adrenaline ride, in which it is impossible not to hold the main trio's thumbs. A lot of cameo roles will please (most likely Wilson+Wilson as Wright+Wright). It's just a shame that the ending is too childish and doesn't fit the action-adventure comedy at all. (15.08.2006)

A great adventure, but unfortunately it comes across as kind of all over the place and slightly evocative of a parody. Just an average movie. (01.01.2011)

Looking at the reviews, I expected this to be really bad, but it was quite fin and I had great time. Arnold was a scream and, for his age, Jackie is in great form. But in my eyes, the best adaptation of Verne’s novel remains the animated series with a lion playing the central role of Willy Fog. (24.11.2007)

Jackie Chan will produce a new version of Jules Verne's classic book and also play one of the main roles. Quite a crazy sentence. You probably wouldn't know what to think about someone who told you something like this a few years ago. However, it really happened. Jackie Chan has decided to co-produce a film based on the book "Around the World in Eighty Days". "Around the World in Eighty Days" was a beautiful book that was able to present the world to young and old readers in a few dozen pages. At a time when people didn't know the Earth as we know it, it was literally like a dream. Even today, the book is interesting to read because it is simply well written. Jules Verne was a master of adventure literature and science fiction. When we look at the film "Around the World in Eighty Days", we have to accept that it lacks any exoticism. Yes, even though it takes place in the previous century and features a Hong Kong actor and a French beauty. It is just an empty adaptation that has gotten rid of the original story and left only the classic plot where Phileas Fogg bets that he can travel around the world in 80 days. Everything else is something completely different. The screenwriters came up with their own story that probably suited their needs better, they inserted Jackie Chan's masterful stunts and even Arnold Schwarzenegger, who probably spent a long time in the tanning bed. His role is absolutely terrible. I didn't like the main protagonist Fogg because I certainly didn't imagine him as a grumpy moronic fool who has more luck than sense. Of course, he also has his weird inventions. "Around the World in Eighty Days" has become a costume comedy, which is a shame. If you want to see this classic in a film adaptation, I recommend trying the Spanish-Japanese animated series "Willy Fog Around the World". That is a children's classic and it is much better and more entertaining. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/12/wtc-yes-man-mary-max-zambezia-cerna.html (02.03.2013)