Around the World in 80 Days - Movie Reviews (2025)

An elongated, swollen film, somehow both frantic and plodding, with more cameos than substance, 80 Days is an extravaganza with little to do other than entertain. But it knows that and isn’t really trying to be anything else.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2023

Around the World in Eighty Days is like a serial; a serial in brilliant Technicolor and a system by now called, I believe, Cinestage, ending in the most ingenious credits I have ever seen. It is a journey through scenes where the sun is aways shining.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2022

It’s just about the most delightful way of spending three hours that I can think of offhand. At last the wide screen and full-color films have been used to make a picture that is worthy of them and appropriate to them.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2022

Outstanding in the long part of Mr. Fogg's faithful valet, Passepartout, is Cantinflas, a sad-faced comedian with a delightful economy of gesture and expression, who adds just the right note of implausibility to the whole highly improbable affair.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2020

The predictable conclusion, which brings the success of the odyssey down to the wire, still contains a hint of satisfaction.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 15, 2020

You see every penny of its extremely generous budget onscreen. Even when you may not wish to.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 24, 2020

Jules Verne's comedy-adventure about a trip encircling the globe in 1872 has been turned into a richly entertaining three-ring circus of a movie...

Full Review | Jan 29, 2020

For an adventure yarn based on a story of intrepid adventurers circumnavigating the globe, this barely scrapes off the ground.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2019

The result... is a rollicking three hours.

Full Review | Feb 19, 2019

With its lazy, somnambulant pace and endless stream of cameos, Around the World in 80 Days seems to be unfolding in real time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 2, 2018

It is by far too long and has lost a significant amount of its wonder, but spending a rainy Sunday afternoon with Verne's adventure seeking story is a surprisingly easy, diverting experience.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Mar 4, 2014

An epic very much of its time, this vastly entertaining star-studded travelogue was put together (with some difficulty) by the great showman Michael Todd.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2014

Michael Anderson's direction couldn't be more unimaginative and flat. A movie like this should be swimming in creative whimsy, and a sense of wonder. There's nothing of that sort here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 9, 2013

The wonder is that this Polyphemus of productions does not simply collapse of its own overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture skips along with an amazing lightness.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2009

Thanks to its grand scale and great central performances by Niven and Cantinflas, the original fantastic voyage still holds up very respectably.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 18, 2009

Just goes to show you what dreck can win the Oscar if you got the money and know how to promote your product.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jun 24, 2008

With a smash lineup of stars in major and minor parts, Todd has turned out a surefire hit.

Full Review | Jan 28, 2008

Everything about this big, beautiful movie smacks of authenticity, excitement, and massive showmanship.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2006

Proof that you can buy an Academy Award.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2006

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2006