Period comedy adventure starring Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan. Victorian inventor Phileas Fogg is challenged to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days by Lord Kelvin, head of the Royal Academy of Science. Accompanying Fogg on his journey are Passepartout, a man skilled in martial arts and bent on restoring a stolen Jade Buddha to his Chinese village, and French artist Monique.
Jackie Chan returns to the Victorian England setting of Shanghai Knights for this comedic take on Jules Verne's much-loved adventure. The film follows the exploits of inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) and his valet, Passepartout (Chan), as they endeavour to circumnavigate the globe in record time to win a wager set by the villainous Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), the head of the Royal Academy of Science. Chan delivers his trademark martial arts rough and tumble along the way, but a redundant subplot involving a stolen jade Buddha only serves to slow the action down. The broad comedy is perhaps more suited to Chan's pratfalls than Coogan's wit, but their travels provide enough eye candy and big-name cameos (including Owen and Luke Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help pass the time on this otherwise laboured journey.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Passepartout / Lao Xing | Jackie Chan |
| Phileas Fogg | Steve Coogan |
| Monique La Roche | Cécile de France |
| Lord Kelvin | Jim Broadbent |
| Queen Victoria | Kathy Bates |
| Prince Hapi | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Grizzled sergeant | John Cleese |
| Wilbur Wright | Owen Wilson |
| Orville Wright | Luke Wilson |
| Inspector Fix | Ewen Bremner |
| Colonel Kitchener | Ian McNeice |
| Steamer captain | Mark Addy |
| San Francisco Hobo | Rob Schneider |
| General Fang | Karen Mok |
| Balloon man | Richard Branson |
| Sleeping French woman | Macy Gray |
| Wong Fei Hung | Sammo Hung |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Frank Coraci |
