+12 Is Around The World In 80 Days A Good Movie Ideas. But here’s a film version that does some lateral thinking, that moves fogg off dead center and makes jackie chan’s passepartout the real hero and lingers for comic effect instead of always looking at its watch. Verne’s 20,000 leagues under the sea and from the earth to the moon were more like it.

Around the world in 80 days is a galumphing, elephantine remake of the movie that won the best picture oscar of 1956. Verne’s 20,000 leagues under the sea and from the earth to the moon were more like it. But here’s a film version that does some lateral thinking, that moves fogg off dead center and makes jackie chan’s passepartout the real hero and lingers for comic effect instead of always looking at its watch.