It clocks in at below ninety minutes, however, at instances I felt it turned into taking me eighty days to get to the top of this ultra-modern model of Jules Verne`s tale of a race across the globe. His novel has been tailored in greater than a dozen instances, together with Mike Todd`s Best Picture Oscar winner, the Razzie-nominated model with Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan, and a 2021 tv collection starring David Tennant. 
 This French/Belgian lively re-telling has animal characters over again looking to win a wager with the aid of using circumnavigating the planet in only eighty days, however, apart from that, there may be little or no connection to Verne`s tale. And thus, as I watched, I attempted to amuse myself, because the film turned into failing in that task, with the aid of using asking myself a chain of questions: Why take the idea and characters from this tale and jettison the nice parts, together with one of the all-time nice twist endings, substituting new and really stupid details? Why make a film approximately a journey around the sector and spend the maximum of it in nondescript fictional locations? Why is the adventure of a notice in a bottle proven with greater wit and visible aptitude than the adventure of the characters looking to win the wager? And a maximum of all, why is this film so screechy? 
 In the book, it's far the rich and really particular Englishman Philéas Fogg who makes the wager that he can circle the sector in eighty days. He is followed with the aid of using his just-employed French valet, named Passepartout (in French, the phrase means “move everywhere,” associated with “passport”). In this film, Philéas (Rob Tinkler) is a frog (it appears like he calls himself Philéas Frog at one point, haha) who's a surfer and a pickpocket, and a con artist. Passepartout (Cory Doran) is a nerdy, bespectacled little marmoset whose goal of be a global explorer like his hero, Juan Frog de Leon. His shrieking, overprotective mother (Shoshana Sperling) makes him put on his yellow rain slicker even if it isn't always raining and continues reminding him he needs to now no longer do something until completely prepared. And as a long way, as she is concerned, no instruction is enough. She reminds him that they moved to a beach metropolis to break out from the risks of the jungle: “No journey here.” 
 Not until you recall it a journey to be bullied with the aid of using the neighborhood population, who occur to be shrimp, and who want to make bets on who could make Passepartout cry first. This can be why Passepartout has tense goals, like being despatched off on a grand journey without his pants. 
 Philéas arrives with a thumping rap tune thru his surfboard, which is called “Boardy,” due to the fact this film is clearly now no longer looking to be clever. He alternatives a few pockets, scams a few money, and makes the wager with the meanie shrimp guys. There`s some other motive for leaving the metropolis quickly. The financial institution has been robbed and the neighborhood sheriff (Heather Bambrick as Fix) thinks Philéas is the culprit. 
 Soon, Philéas and Passepartout are on their way. Where to, you would possibly ask? Well, you would possibly assume a film approximately going around the sector in eighty days could have a few colorful stops in charming actual locations, however now no longer really. Our intrepid travelers, whilst they`re now no longer tiresomely growing to appreciate every other`s skills, spend an awful lot of their time in universal settings: desert, jungle. They keep and are stored with the aid of using a smart, stunning frog princess (Katie Griffin) who takes place to be an aviator. And they run into none apart from Juan Frog de Leon (Juan Chioran). 
 Instead of the wit, charm, and humor the tale ought to inspire, the film settles for dumb jokes (“Kiss my ax!” yells Passepartout) and dumber insults (“How an awful lot does a princess realize approximately science-y stuff?”) Yelling and pratfalls do now no longer cover the dearth of energy or originality.