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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Nice effects though.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

6.8 really. People must just love boring movies. I do not like boring movie. This is slow and has an awful story line. It not a 6.8 that is just overrating it. This is very boring. I give it 4 out of 10. Because it so boring. Do not waste your money. And do not waste your time. You could your time doing better things then watching this boring movie. Life is to short for this boring movie. It so boring it is boring to watching. Do see this movie. It is not a good movie. Do not see it. You could see Godzilla. Or could see King Kong. Or you could see Gamera. You do not need to see this. You could see Star wars. There are a lot of great films out there. And this is not one of them. Do not see this movie.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS will always be special to me because it was the only film that I watched alone with my beloved paternal grandfather, back in Lourenço Marques, Moçambique, in 1970. Of course, one can find flaws with the structure, Cantinflas' excessive flamboyance, and holes in the story's credibility, but that detracts from the immense pleasure, and ultimately the rather solid product that this film turns out to be, with wonderful comic touches and photography, and cameos by major stars of the day generously sprinkled all over the film. A 60th anniversary edition has come out in DVD and BlueRay with excellent extra material, including a voice over commentary that is a joy to listen to, offering detailed information about members of the cast, production difficulties, etc. David Niven's deadpan performance provides a clever counterweight to Cantinflas' overplayed antics. I have now watched this film at least 5 times, and all I can say is that I continue to enjoy it... very much!

Everyone enjoys taking a cheap shot at the Academy Awards, and this movie offers a great chance to do just that - Around the World in Eighty Days won Best Picture, while in the same year John Ford's The Searchers, one of the most iconic classics in the history of American cinema, didn't receive a single nomination.Around the World is three hours long, and feels like it. Every few minutes the movie stops to gawk at its exotic locations and smugly chuckle at its endless celebrity cameos ("Look, isn't it funny that the saloon pianist is Frank Sinatra?"). It has certainly aged badly. I remember enjoying it as a kid thirty years ago; rewatching it recently, I was surprised by how overlong it feels. I had a similar reaction to another on-the-road adventure/comedy of the same era, The Great Race, except the latter is propelled even today by Jack Lemmon's villainous glee as Professor Fate and by the sight of the adorable Natalie Wood in her lingerie. Around the World features also-adorable Shirley MacLaine - but, distractingly, she is unlikely cast as an Indian princess.Overall, though, this Jules Verne adaptation isn't a bad movie - a mildly entertaining travelogue with luscious vistas and a tone-perfect David Niven as a British gentleman so prim and fastidious that, if you tossed a couple of eggs in his luggage, two minutes later he would produce from it still immaculate clothes and a perfectly cooked omelet on a silver platter. In fact, Around the World is at its best when it focuses on Niven's Phileas Fogg dryly dealing with annoyances, obstacles and threats, and at its worst when it pauses to showcase the physical skills of co-star Cantinflas as Passepartout - so we have a dancing number, a bullfighting number, a circus number, and so on.The result is drawn-out; we complain that Peter Jackson added at least a whole hour of bloat in each Hobbit movie, but Hollywood was already doing that sixty years ago.6/10

From the Jules Verne book, Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) accepts a bet from his fellow Reform Club members to travel around the world in 80 days putting up £20k. Passepartout (Cantinflas) comes looking for a job and becomes his valet for the trip. The Bank of England has been robbed of £55k. Inspector Fix (Robert Newton) believes that Fogg had stolen the money and follows him in pursuit. It's a wild ride across the globe. On the way, they rescue Indian Princess Aouda (Shirley MacLaine) who joins them on their quest.Without a doubt, this is a grand movie with lots of footage from all around the world. It was probably quite an eye opener for its time. With the exception of these exotic footage, the movie is a slow, prodding, unfunny affair. The trip is monotonous. A lot of it is wild, some are insane while others border on racist. I guess people actually believed that ostriches pulled carts in HongKong back in the day. However one must admire the daring it took to make such an impossible film.