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Around the World in 80 Days
1956
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4.5
Advertisement After a bumpy opening, Around The World settles into an easygoing rhythm.
Av Club
4.5
With a smash lineup of stars in major and minor parts, Todd has turned out a surefire hit.
Variety
1.5
But those moments pass rapidly Thurber, whos made short films, has a better sense of timing than Stiller exhibits when he directs himself, as in Zoola ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
This 1956 multi Oscar winner has probably aged badly during the intervening years.
4.0
80 Days is pure fluff, but its so delightful in its fluffiness that the lack of any real depth doesnt matter.
E Film Critic
2.0
Just goes to show you what dreck can win the Oscar if you got the money and know how to promote your product.
Sover
3.1
With its lazy, somnambulant pace and endless stream of cameos, Around the World in 80 Days seems to be unfolding in real time.
ReelViews
4.0
Everything about this big, beautiful movie smacks of authenticity, excitement, and massive showmanship.
Tv Guide
4.5
Outstanding in the long part of Mr. Foggs faithful valet, Passepartout, is Cantinflas, a sad faced comedian with a delightful economy of gesture and e ..
The Times
4.0
An epic very much of its time, this vastly entertaining star studded travelogue was put together (with some difficulty) by the great showman Michael T ..
Radio Times
1.5
The novelty these far flung places must have had for a 1956 audience is a bit lessened for the viewer today.
2.0
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, whe ..
Emanuellevy
1.5
The wonder is that this Polyphemus of productions does not simply collapse of its own overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture ..
Time
2.0
Passepartouts constant flirtations with beautiful women seem conspicuously incompatible with Foggs demanding schedule and insistence on proper behavio ..
3.8
It was definitely one of the biggest event films of the 1950s, but the decade produced many smaller films that were much more entertaining and that ha ..
Three Movie Buffs
1.5
Is the whole thing too exhausting Its a question of how much you can take. We not only took it but found it most amusing.
Ny Times
2.5
But what it really is, is the spiritual successor to 1952s This Is Cinerama, another Todd produced film.
Alternate Ending
3.5
Around the World in Eighty Days may have its faults and lost some of its original allure, but it remains a sure bet even today.
Movie Metropolis
2.0
For an adventure yarn based on a story of intrepid adventurers circumnavigating the globe, this barely scrapes off the ground.
Sky
3.5
Thanks to its grand scale and great central performances by Niven and Cantinflas, the original fantastic voyage still holds up very respectably.
Web Archive
2.5
Not only the beginning of cameos, this was also the beginning of large, flashy, special effects ladden spectacles that did more for the dazzling of th ..
Zap2it.com
4.5
Jules Vernes comedy adventure about a trip encircling the globe in 1872 has been turned into a richly entertaining three ring circus of a movie...
Maclean's Magazine
2.5
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.
Movie City News
2.0
It is by far too long and has lost a significant amount of its wonder, but spending a rainy Sunday afternoon with Vernes adventure seeking story is a ..
Quick Flix
1.3
Michael Andersons direction couldnt be more unimaginative and flat. A movie like this should be swimming in creative whimsy, and a sense of wonder. Th ..
Film Geek Central
4.0
The cast of thousands and absurb scenarios overcomes the overlong oddities in the movie.
4.5
An eye filling travelogue, an exciting adventure and a very funny film.
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