Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)

A 2004 film adaptation of Jules Verne's novel, starring Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan.


 * Actor Allusion: Having been brought to work as a child by his parents at the French embassy in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan does know some French.
 * Adaptation Decay: The 2004 movie wildly diverges from the original. Among other things:
 * Fogg's peers are turned into actual villains.
 * A subplot regarding a stolen Chinese idol is added.
 * Aouda is replaced with a female French artist who joins the trip looking for inspiration.
 * But to balance this, the Frenchman Passepartout is replaced by Jackie Chan.
 * Fogg builds his own flying machine to win the race.
 * Acrofatic: Sammo Hung as Wong Fei Hong, doubling as Actor Allusion as Hung has had a string of roles as famous martial artists that allegedly had a Historical Beauty Update.
 * The Cameo: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luke and Owen Wilson, Rob Schneider, Kathy Bates, and (thanks to Jackie) Hong Kong actors like Sammo Hung, Daniel Wu, and Karen Mok.
 * Dragon Lady: The Chinese villainess in the '04 movie, who displays Surprisingly Good English (the actress Karen Mok went to university overseas).
 * Fake Nationality: Chinese actor Jackie Chan as Passepartout (his nationality becomes part of the story).
 * Faux Action Girl: the sadly underused Maggie Q.
 * Historical Fiction: The movie adds cameos by Vincent Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Queen Victoria, Wong Fei Hong and even The Statue of Liberty!
 * The Wright Brothers. Maybe an Indian prince.
 * MacGuffin: The jade Buddha.
 * The Ingenue: Fogg is portrayed a pretty clueless nice guy. He can't even tell that his valet doesn't really speak French!