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A review of the Jackie Chan 80 Days movie

From: <Skravitz~at~aol.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:33:24 EDT
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This is the review of Around the World in 80 Days published in the Friday,
June 25th issue of the New York Post.
This $110 million fiasco is a tedious, unfunny and inexcusable reworking of
Jules Verne's novel as a feeble vehicle for Jackie Chan, as the valet to the
globetrotting Phineas Fogg (played by unfunny British TV comedian Steve Coogan).
 With clumsy stunts, crotch jokes, racist stereotypes and embarrassing cameos
by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger (in brownface as a horny Turkish
prince) and Kathy Bates (as Queen Victoria), this is the sort of movie that gives
family entertainment a bad name. Ineptly directed by Frank Coraci.
Received on Mon 28 Jun 2004 - 18:33:49 IDT

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