Just goes to show you what dreck can win the Oscar if you got the money and know how to promote your product.
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06/24/08
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
72 %
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Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 21
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 6/10
Consensus: Around the World in 80 Days still offers amusing, if shallow, entertainment.
Runtime: 3 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: David Niven is perfect as an imperturbable English gentleman who attempts to win a bet by circumnavigating the globe in eighty days. The Jules Verne story, 100 locations, 40 cameo appearances by Hollywood players, a Victor Young score,... [More]
Starring: David Niven, Cantinflas, Charles Boyer, Robert Newton
Director: Michael Anderson
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Reviews for Around the World in 80 Days
With a smash lineup of stars in major and minor parts, Todd has turned out a surefire hit.
01/28/08
Top Critic Everything about this big, beautiful movie smacks of authenticity, excitement, and massive showmanship.
12/12/06
Top Critic An amusing trip around the world in a style befitting Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days lives up to its hype as a massive, glossy epic.
11/08/06
The most magnificent travelogue disguised as adventure spectacle ever made. Or is it the other way around?
05/25/06
This globe-trotting adventure was not the first to use Todd-AO, but it put the new technology to better effect, taking audiences to exotic places, where they could spot Hollywood stars like Sinatra, MacLaine, and Dietrich, in cameo roles.
04/23/06
Is the whole thing too exhausting? It's a question of how much you can take. We not only took it but found it most amusing.
03/25/06
Top Critic An interminable travelogue interspersed with sketches in which star-spotting affords some relief.
02/09/06
The movie has not aged well. Many of the performances are arch, playing the comedy broadly, which is blandly predictable as the film grinds on and on.
02/15/05
Top Critic 80 Days is pure fluff, but it’s so delightful in its fluffiness that the lack of any real depth doesn’t matter.
02/09/05
The movie has not aged well. To its credit, it is benign and charming, with an intoxicating musical score, compelling cinematography and a continually advancing locale.
07/03/04
Top Critic The cast of thousands and absurb scenarios overcomes the overlong oddities in the movie.
06/08/04
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