Playful retelling of Jules Verne&s classic novel starring Jackie Chan & Steve Coogan Chan plays Passepartout valet to the neurotic time-obsessed English inventor Phileas Fogg (Coogan) who has made a wager with fellow members at his London gentleman&s club that he can traverse the globe in only 80 days using as many kinds of transportation as possible (from boats & trains to hot-air balloons & elephants) Unfortunately the London police have mistakenly identified Fogg as the perpetrator of a bank robbery that took place just before he left the country & a relentless detective is in hot pursuit of the unlikely pair To complicate matters further Passepartout is not what he seems he is in fact notorious Chinese thief Lau Xing & has entered Fogg&s employ for the prinicipal purpose of lying low after stealing a priceless jade Buddha