A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it did win the Best Picture Academy Award back in those days, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, while this movie started, I suddenly remembered that I actually read this book maybe 30 years ago when I was a kid and I remembered how much I actually loved the damned thing at the time. Well, this movie is usually considered the best adaptation of this classic book and, indeed, they definitely got the tone right. Seriously, I was actually quite in awe during the flamenco scene and I thought the damned thing could turn out to be a seriously awesome adventure flick with so many exotic locations accurately depicted. Unfortunately, the very next scene with Passepartout involved with some bullfighting (Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t in the book) was already much less interesting, at least, I didn’t care much for it. Eventually, it was then hit-and-miss and another thing that did bother me with this movie was the fact that it was quite long. To be honest, it became rather exhausting at some point. Eventually, they really tried to make it look and feel authentic, which was especially tricky since so many countries and locations were involved, and they mostly succeeded but a glaring exception was Shirley MacLaine who was clearly miscast here (even MacLaine herself thought she was miscast). Indeed, it could have been the opportunity to hire a famous Bollywood actress. This movie is also famous for the countless cameos involved but even though these cameos were harmless, they were also all rather pointless. Anyway, to conclude, even if it was definitely not a masterpiece, it was still quite entertaining and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.