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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Trinity Home Ent
Salesrank: 15252
Released: April 5, 2005 |
| Our Price: $4.18 |
| Used Price: $2.89 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Synopsis: Pierce Bronson stars as adventurer Phineas Fogg in this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story, in which to win a wager he must travel around the globe in 80 days or less. However, Fogg has been blamed for the theft of a large amount of money, and a detective (Peter Ustinov) is hot on his trail trying to catch him before he reaches the finish line
Around the World in 80 Days (1989) Reviews:
Good remake 
2009-10-05 - Pierce Brosnan does a great job in this remake of Around the world in 80 days I really enjoyed watching it. I have the original as well but this was good too.
Product description 
2009-07-30 - Dear friends at Amazon - please let somebody rewrite the Product Description. Pierce Bronson??? Shame on you!!!!
Great Price Good Entertainment
2009-07-15 - The most important thing you should know before you purchase a DVD of the 1989 Pierce Brosnan version of the 80 Days story is to read the specifics of what you are purchasing. The format with ONE DISC and no commercial breaks and self-important credits for the "producers" is in the box with Brosnan's face large, and front and center, balloon at the right and lots of color. Look for the description "ONE DISC". This plays from beginning to end without stopping for the full 4.5 hours. Cannot sit and watch? It has SCENE SELECTIONS so you can come back to it. However this IS a no frills DVD and for those who are enamoured with the Producer/Director-Hollywood-speak self promotions and congratulations, you will only get the story which is why you buy the DVD. Some reviewers have said there are scenes missing. Not in this video. The cuts are made at the very end at the credits and they flash by.
This version is most true to the book by Jules Verne. The David Niven version with music... yuck! The Jackie Chan version... GIVE ME A DAD-GUM BREAK!
Classic
2009-07-05 - This video series is a classic version of Jules Verne's story. Years ago we had taped the TV mini-series onto VHS, but over the years the tapes have worn down. We were excited to see that it has been dubbed onto DVD. Although the cover does not look like it is the version with Pierce Brosnan, it is the correct version. You will not be disappointed with this classic.
Great mini series, poor product 
2009-05-30 - This mini-series has a great cast and is quite enjoyable. The acting is everywhere from competent to very good, and you'll enjoy the many famous faces.
Unfortunately the video obviously came straight from tape .. and OLD tape. The picture is fuzzy most of the time, grainy all of the time, and occasionally you see double images around the outline of actors and objects in the background.
The colors are considerably off from its original broadcast.
Most annoying is the soundtrack. The dialog is OK, but the background music is almost without exception a victim of the type of distortion that comes from old tape.
I literally have better vidoes that I taped from TV, and then dubbed from VHS tapes to DVD as much as 15 yeasrs later.
The bad news is that this appears to currently be the only way to get this complete mini series, and if you can travel back in time 20 years and pretend that you taped this while you were away with a bad VCR on a cheap VHS tape, you won't mind it too much. LOL
When you compare this to DVDs of the Remington Steele show (also with Brosnan) that was produced a few years earlier than this, you'll see that no effort at all went into the transfer, and evidently no effort went into the search for a better source master.
