Written with a cosmopolitan and open view of the world, Around the World in Eighty Days is a brilliant tale. Rather than being a sidekick or a bad Asian stereotype, Jackie Chan portrays his character as someone just as vivid and intelligent as Phileas Fogg, and unlike so many martial arts movies, women are shown to be just as brave, strong, and skilled as men in the fight scenes. Jules Verne 's Around the World in Eighty Days is a rip-roaring adventure story set primarily in Victorian England but spans the world following its protagonist Phileas Fogg. One man who is imprisoned in a box for urinating in public is later shown, after being freed, on the verge of pulling his pants down and urinating in public once again. There is some crude and vulgar humor, including bathroom jokes, drunkenness played for comedy, a weird cross-dressing joke, and a comic situation involving a man with many wives. Characters use mild bad language ("bloody hell"). Under those terms, given the eight-episode end product that premieres tonight on PBS, there’s little explanation for this new adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Vernes. There is a lot of slapstick-, cartoon-, and action-style violence, including many crotch injuries, but no one is seriously hurt. Parents need to know that Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel. Champagne drinking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. HERE IS A SAMPLE OF Around the World in Eighty DaysCharacters drink shots of liquor, act drunk. Soon, Fogg arrives in India, where he finds that modern. Living Books Press has added an extensive glossary, a biography of Jules Verne and a day-by-day itinerary of Fogg’s journey around the world. With Passepartout in tow and Fix in hot pursuit, Fogg continues to make his way across the world. Illustrations are from the time-honored George M.
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club in London, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
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