But when girls are shown holding their own, it undermines the rationale for the prohibition on violence of any sore against females, whether in marriage or anywhere else.” Women are not as strong as men and must be protected from male brutality. One of the absolutes in culture is that a man is never justified in hitting a woman, and for good reason. James Dobson expresses in his book Bringing Up Boys, ”It is occurring more frequently in Hollywood movies today has the potential to be very counterproductive for women. Watching a man viciously battle a woman Daredevil/Charlie’s Angels fashion is most unsettling. And Lau’s retaliatory kicks and punches go well beyond self-defense. In it, General Fang, a woman with deadly long nails, is out to kill Lau once and for all. But one scene in particular stands out as intense, cold-blooded and savage. Plus, there’s lots and lots of rapid hand-to-hand combat in which seemingly no one is hurt or bloodied.įor the most part it’s eye candy. A nosey policeman burns his hand on an exhaust pipe. Lord Kelvin throws objects about his office. Lau catapulted into the air and hitting a street lamp (landing essentially unscathed). Barrels rolling off a cart mowing down pursuers. Most of it has a slapstick quality to it. With Jackie Chan’s reputation preceding him, filmgoers know there’s sure to be a lot of karate-style kicking, punching, jumping, chopping, sword-and-knife fighting and flipping.
Several times afterwards Fogg remarks that he likes women’s clothes. With wanted posters everywhere in India, Lau and Fogg hide from authorities by dressing like women. (He’s shown in bathing suit-looking underwear.) Scantily clad belly dancers entertain their guests during a stopover in Istanbul. Later, Lau loses his trousers when his pants get stuck on a large statue. Observing red-light district “professionals” showing affection to their customers, Lau becomes so enamored with the sight that he scales down the rope of the hot air balloon to which he’s clinging to extend his voyeurism (patrons and prostitutes are clothed). Then realizing what he’s just confessed, he quickly changes it to flying. In a conversation with Fogg she asks, “You dream of naked men?” to which he replies in the affirmative. One of her own paintings features a naked, flying man (shown from the waist up). When viewers first encounter Monique in Paris, she’s an aspiring artist working as a hatcheck girl in a gallery. And that just might slow Fogg down even more! It’s just a battle against time, circumstances and Lord Kelvin’s henchmen. Then in Paris this mismatched pair meets Monique, an attractive up-and-coming painter who believes traveling around the earth sounds globally more exciting than continuing her current employment as hatcheck girl, so the duo becomes a trio. And Fogg doesn’t just have Kelvin to deal with Lau’s motives for joining his worldwide tour are self-serving (to return the Buddha to his village and escape arrest in England). But just in case he’s wrong, the Academy president pull off some pretty shady shenanigans to hedge his bet.
#Around the world in 80 days cartoon full#
Kelvin is convinced Fogg’s full of hot air. What does he have to do to win? Circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Fogg isn’t interested in his 10,000 pounds, but eventually agrees to bet his future as a scientist (he’ll give it up if he loses) against Kelvin’s position as president. Kelvin is so convinced Fogg is off his rocker that he offers a wager to prove it. Meanwhile, Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Academy of Science, publicly belittles Fogg as a fruitcake in front of his scientific peers. Lau, as it turns out, has just robbed the Bank of England, not for gold or money, but to regain possession of a jade Buddha that was originally stolen from his village in China. Just as the valet is dropping out of Fogg’s life, Lau Xing drops in-literally-from a tree where he’s hiding out from London’s police. So it’s no surprise when his personal valet walks off the job unwilling to put his life on the line to break a velocity hurdle that contemporaries consider life-endangering. It’s the late 1800s, and at London’s Royal Academy of Science, Fogg is dismissed as a crazed wacko, an embarrassment to those creating genuine technological advancements.Īdmittedly, Fogg is a bit of a bumbler and an eccentric, and he’s not beyond taking perilous risks to test an invention. In it, Phileas Fogg, an ahead-of-his-time inventor, has figured out a way to break the 50 mph speed barrier, turn off electric lights with a whistle and maneuver on a shoe-based prototype of what would eventually become the inline roller skate.
Now it’s getting a 21st century one, à la Jackie Chan. Jules Verne’s 19th century tale of adventure and invention got a 20th century big screen makeover in 1956.
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