2004 · action · adventure · comedy
Around the World in 80 Days
Directed by Frank Coraci2h 0m2004
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Our read: Around the World in 80 Days (2004) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- epic-stakes
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