Around the world in 80 days audiobook movie#
Changing Phineas to a bumbling, goofy inventor was clearly done in an attempt to make the movie into another version of the buddy movie that has been Jackie's greatest friend in the U.S., but Coogan is unexceptional in the role and doesn't have a lot of chemistry with Jackie, so they really should have just done the character as written, which could have made for a much smarter movie.
Passepartout's character could have been expanded for Jackie without so many other changes. I think it would help when watching this movie to have not read the book, because one cannot help but think that the extensive rewriting was not necessary. The movie is breezy and enjoyable, with some fun fight scenes, although it is completely inconsequential. Very unfaithful adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, yet much more entertaining than the tedious and wildly overrated but relatively faithful David Niven version.